AP World History Dates Flashcards
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| 421537440 | 8000 BCE | beginnings of agriculture | 0 | |
| 421537441 | 3000 BCE | beginnings of Bronze Age - early civ's | 1 | |
| 421537442 | 1300 BCE | Iron Age | 2 | |
| 421537443 | 6th century BCE | life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu (beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism) | 3 | |
| 421537444 | 5th century BCE | Greek Golden Age - philosophers | 4 | |
| 421537445 | 323 BCE | Alexander the Great | 5 | |
| 421537446 | 221 BCE | Qin unified China | 6 | |
| 421537447 | 32 AD | beginnings of Christianity | 7 | |
| 421537448 | 180 AD | end of Pax Romana | 8 | |
| 421537449 | 220 AD | end of Han Dynasty | 9 | |
| 421537450 | 333 AD | Roman capital moved to Constantinople | 10 | |
| 421537451 | 4th century | beginnings of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes | 11 | |
| 421537452 | 476 AD | fall of Rome | 12 | |
| 421537453 | 527 AD | Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire | 13 | |
| 421537454 | 632 AD | Rise of Islam | 14 | |
| 421537455 | 732 AD | Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France) | 15 | |
| 421537456 | 1054 AD | 1st Schism in Christian Church | 16 | |
| 421537457 | 1066 AD | Norman conquest of England | 17 | |
| 421537458 | 1071 AD | Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byz) | 18 | |
| 421537459 | 1095 AD | 1st Crusade | 19 | |
| 421537460 | 1258 AD | Mongols sack Baghdad | 20 | |
| 421537461 | 1271-1295 AD | Marco Polo travels | 21 | |
| 421537462 | 1324 AD | Mansa Musa's pilgrimage | 22 | |
| 421537463 | 1325-1349 AD | travels of Ibn Battuta | 23 | |
| 421537464 | 1347-1348 AD | Bubonic plague in Europe | 24 | |
| 421537465 | 1433 AD | end of Zheng He's voyages / Rise of Ottomans | 25 | |
| 421537466 | 1453 AD | Ottomans capture Constantinople | 26 | |
| 421537467 | 1488 AD | Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope | 27 | |
| 421537468 | 1492 AD | Columbus sailed the ocean blue / Reconquista of Spain | 28 | |
| 421537469 | 1502 AD | slaves to Americas | 29 | |
| 421537470 | 1517 AD | Maritn Luther / 95 theses | 30 | |
| 421537471 | 1521 AD | Cortez conquered the Aztecs | 31 | |
| 421537472 | 1533 AD | Pizarro toppled the Inca | 32 | |
| 421537473 | 1571 AD | Battle of Lepanto (naval defeat of Ottomans) | 33 | |
| 421537474 | 1588 AD | defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British | 34 | |
| 421537475 | 1600 AD | Battle of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa | 35 | |
| 421537476 | 1607 AD | foundation of Jamestown | 36 | |
| 421537477 | 1618-1648 AD | 30 years war | 37 | |
| 421537478 | 1683 AD | unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna | 38 | |
| 421537479 | 1689 AD | Glorious Revolution / English Bill of Rights | 39 | |
| 421537480 | 1756-1763 AD | 7 years war / French and Indian War | 40 | |
| 421537481 | 1776 AD | American Revolution / Smith writes Wealth of Nations | 41 | |
| 421537482 | 1789 AD | French Revolution | 42 | |
| 421537483 | 1804 AD | Haitian independence | 43 | |
| 421537484 | 1815 AD | Congress of Vienna | 44 | |
| 421537485 | 1820s AD | Independence in Latin America | 45 | |
| 421537486 | 1839 AD | 1st opium war in China | 46 | |
| 421537487 | 1848 AD | European revolutions / Marx & Engles write Communist Manifesto | 47 | |
| 421537488 | 1853 AD | Commodore Perry opens Japan | 48 | |
| 421537489 | 1857 AD | Sepoy Mutiny | 49 | |
| 421537490 | 1861 AD | end of Russian serfdom / Italian unification | 50 | |
| 421537491 | 1863 AD | Emancipation Proclamation in US | 51 | |
| 421537492 | 1871 AD | German unification | 52 | |
| 421537493 | 1885 AD | Berlin Conference - division of Africa | 53 | |
| 421537494 | 1898 AD | Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico | 54 | |
| 421537495 | 1899 AD | Boer War - British in control of South Africa | 55 | |
| 421537496 | 1905 AD | Russo-Japanese war | 56 | |
| 421537497 | 1910-1920 AD | Mexican Revolution | 57 | |
| 421537498 | 1911 AD | Chinese Revolution | 58 | |
| 421537499 | 1914 AD | WWI | 59 | |
| 421537500 | 1917 AD | Russian Revolution | 60 | |
| 421537501 | 1919 AD | Treaty of Versailles - end of WWI | 61 | |
| 421537502 | 1929 AD | stock market crash | 62 | |
| 421537503 | 1931 AD | Japanese invasion of Manchuria | 63 | |
| 421537504 | 1935 AD | Italian invasion of Ethiopia | 64 | |
| 421537505 | 1939 AD | German blitzkrieg in Poland | 65 | |
| 421537506 | 1941 AD | Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII | 66 | |
| 421537507 | 1945 AD | end of WWII | 67 | |
| 421537508 | 1947 AD | independence & partition of India | 68 | |
| 421537509 | 1948 AD | birth of Israel | 69 | |
| 421537510 | 1949 AD | Chinese Communist Revolution | 70 | |
| 421537511 | 1950-1953 AD | Korean War | 71 | |
| 421537512 | 1954 AD | Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu | 72 | |
| 421537513 | 1956 AD | de-Stalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal | 73 | |
| 421537514 | 1959 AD | Cuban Revolution | 74 | |
| 421537515 | 1962 AD | Cuban missile crisis | 75 | |
| 421537516 | 1967 AD | 6-day war / Chinese Cultural Revolution | 76 | |
| 421537517 | 1973 AD | Yom Kippur war | 77 | |
| 421537518 | 1979 AD | Iranian Revolution | 78 | |
| 421537519 | 1987 AD | 1st Palestinian Intifada | 79 | |
| 421537520 | 1989 AD | Tiananmen Square / fall of Berlin Wall | 80 | |
| 421537521 | 1991 AD | fall of USSR / 1st Gulf War | 81 | |
| 421537522 | 1994 AD | genocide in Rwanda / 1st all race elections in S. Africa | 82 | |
| 421537523 | 2001 AD | 9/11 Attacks | 83 |