AP World History Dates Flashcards

4398042779	8000 BCE	Beginnings of agriculture	0
4398044347	3500 BCE	invention of wheel, plough (Mesopotamia) and sail (Egypt)	1
4398045974	3200 BCE	Invention of writing in Mesopotamia	2
4398045975	3000 BCE	founding of first cities in Sumeria	3
4398052406	7th C BCE	invention of ironworking	4
4398070270	5th C BCE	Beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism and Greek Golden Age	5
4398071696	323 BCE	Alexander the Great	6
4398072472	221 BCE	Qin unified China	7
4398073575	184 BCE	Fall of the Mauryan dynasty	8
4398075198	32 CE	Beginnings of Christianity	9
4398076353	220 CE	end of Han Dynasty	10
4398077346	312 CE	Roman Emperor Constantine converts to Christianity	11
4398079414	320	Rise of the Gupta in India	12
4398086882	333	Roman capital moved to Constantinople	13
4398089165	476	Fall of Rome in the West ends 800 years of Roman hegemony	14
4398089988	527	Justinian rules Byzantine Empire	15
4398089989	550	Fall of the Gupta in India	16
4398093322	622	Rise of Islam	17
4398093323	730	Printing invented in China	18
4398094098	732	Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move to France)	19
4398094099	900	Decline of classical Maya	20
4398094100	1054	Schism of Greek and Latin Christian Churches divides Christianity permanently into two geographical and denominational halves.	21
4398099326	1066	Norman Conquest of England	22
4398099327	1071	Seljuk defeat of Byzantines (Battle of Manzikert)	23
4398100245	1095	1st Crusade	24
4398104052	1206	Genghis Khan begins his conquest of Asia.	25
4398105283	1215	Magna Carta signed by King John at Runnymede: beginning of constitutional rule.	26
4398105284	1258	Mongols sack Baghdad	27
4398106384	1271-1295	Marco Polo travels	28
4398106385	1300s	Rise of Ottomans	29
4398107290	1324	Mansa Musa's pilgrimage	30
4398115620	1325-1349	travels of Ibn Battuta	31
4398115621	1347-1348	Bubonic plague in Europe	32
4398116891	1433	end of Zheng He's voyages	33
4398116892	1438	Rise of the Inca	34
4398121689	1453	Ottomans capture Constantinople	35
4398121690	1486	Aztec Empire at its height	36
4398123837	1488	Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope	37
4398123838	1492	Columbus sailed to Hispaniola/Reconquista of Spain	38
4398125004	1502	first African slaves transported to Caribbean	39
4398128019	1517	Martin Luther/95 theses - Protestant Reformation	40
4398128020	1521	Cortez conquered the Aztecs	41
4398132427	1533	Pizarro toppled the Inca	42
4398134317	1545	discovery of silver at Potosi	43
4398134318	1571	Battle of Lepanto - naval defeat of Ottomans	44
4398135052	1588	defeat of the Spanish Armada	45
4398135053	1600	Battle of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa Shogunate	46
4398136145	1607	founding of Jamestown (first slaves there in 1619)	47
4398136146	1618-1648	30 years war in Europe	48
4398138128	1644	- End of Ming Dynasty - rise of the Qing	49
4398141877	1652	Establishment of Cape Town Colony	50
4398141878	1683	unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna	51
4398141879	1689	Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights	52
4398145488	1756-1763	steam locomotive, textiles, etc.	53
4398146369	Industrial Revolution begins	steam locomotive, textiles, etc.	54
4398146370	1767	Invention of the Spinning Jenny: man-using machines	55
4398146371	1775	The American Declaration of Independence	56
4398147738	1776	American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations	57
4398150880	1789	French Revolution - The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen	58
4398150881	1796	Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination: the first real breakthrough in combating infectious diseases	59
4398151683	1804	Haitian independence	60
4398151684	1807	British Abolition of the slave trade	61
4398154259	1810-1825	Latin American independence (first Mexican Revolution)	62
4398154260	1815	Metternich hosts Congress of Vienna (after Battle of Waterloo: the Napoleonic Empire ends)	63
4398155448	1839	1st opium war between China and England	64
4398163037	1848	European revolutions/Marx & Engels write Communist Manifesto / The resolutions passed at the Seneca Falls Conference in 1848	65
4398164586	1853	Commodore Perry opens Japan	66
4398164587	1857	Sepoy Mutiny in India	67
4398164588	1861	end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification	68
4398166009	1863	Emancipation Proclamation issued in US	69
4398177539	1871	German unification	70
4398177540	1885	Berlin Conference and Benz develops first petrol-driven car	71
4398177541	1893	New Zealand is the first to award women suffrage; other nations in the Commonwealth soon follow	72
4398177542	1896	Battle of Adwa - Ethiopians fend off Italians.	73
4398178688	1898	Spanish-American War - Spain loses colonies (Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines)	74
4398178689	1899	Boer War - Dutch under British rule in South Africa	75
4398183508	1905	Russo-Japanese war and Einstein's theory of special relativity published	76
4398185136	1910-1920	Mexican Revolution / 1911- Chinese Revolution	77
4398186325	1914-1919	WWI/ Treaty of Versailles / 1917 - Russian Revolution	78
4398186326	1929	stock market crash/Great Depression	79
4398186364	1931	Japanese invasion of Manchuria	80
4398191200	1935	Italian invasion of Ethiopia / 1939 - German blitzkrieg in Poland	81
4398191201	1941	Pearl Harbor / 1943 - Soviets defeat Germans at Stalingrad	82
4398191993	1945	end of WWII - and dropping of atomic bombs on Japan	83
4398192775	1947	freedom & partition of India	84
4398192776	1948	birth of Israel / The U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights	85
4398194717	1949	Chinese Communist Revolution	86
4398194718	1950-1953	Korean War / 1954 - Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu	87
4398194719	1956	de-Stalinization/Nationalization of Suez Canal	88
4398194720	1957	Ghana is first African nation to gain independence	89
4398195656	1959	Cuban Revolution and Invention of the silicon chip (beginning of computer age).	90
4398195657	1967	6 day war/Chinese Cultural Revolution	91
4398200029	1973	Yom Kippur War	92
4398200030	1979	Iranian Revolution	93
4398200031	1987	1st Palestinian Intifada	94
4398201061	1989	Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin Wall - Collapse of Communist regimes in Europe;	95
4398201062	1990	Namibia is the last country to gain independence in Africa	96
4398201354	1991	Fall of USSR/1st Gulf war	97