AP World History Chronology Flashcards

4509711665	610	Muhammad begins receiving revelations	0
4509711666	1517	Martin Luther nails the 95 Theses to a church door in Wittenburg	1
4509711667	1861	Emancipation of the serfs in Russia	2
4509711668	551 BCE	The birth of Confucius	3
4509711669	1990	Nelson Mandela is released from prison	4
4509711670	1469	The union of Aragon & Castile, which creates a united Spanish monarchy	5
4509711671	1200 BCE	Judaism, the first monotheistic religion, begins	6
4509711672	535	Fall of the Gupta Empire	7
4509711673	220	Fall of Han China	8
4509711674	476	Fall of the Roman Empire	9
4509711675	1613	Begining of the Romanov dynasty	10
4509711676	313	The Roman Emperor Constantine converts to Christianity	11
4509711677	1815	The Congress of Vienna begins	12
4509711678	1803	The purchase of Louisiana from France by the US	13
4509711679	1776	The Wealth of Nations is published	14
4509711680	1324	The pilgrimage of Mansa Musa	15
4509711681	39	The Trung Sisters revolt in Vietnam	16
4509711682	500 BCE	Lao-zi and Daoism	17
4509711683	563 BCE	Birth of Siddhartha Gutama who later becomes the Buddha	18
4509711684	622	Muhammad leaves Mecca for Medina. The Hijra, the official beginning of Islam	19
4509711685	330	Constantine establishes Constantinople as the capital of the eastern Roman Empire	20
4509711686	1533	Fall of the Inca to Pizzaro	21
4509711687	1929	Beginning of the Great Depression	22
4509711688	1492	Fall of Granada the last Muslim kingdom in Spain	23
4509711689	1792	Slave rebellion in St. Domingue led by Toussaint L' Overture	24
4509711690	1258	Fall of Baghdad to Mongol destruction	25
4509711691	794	Japanese capital moves to Heian	26
4509711692	800	Crowning of Charlemagne	27
4509711693	1919	Treaty of Versailles ends WWI	28
4509711694	1991	Fall of the Soviet Union	29
4509711695	1869	The opening of the Suez Canal	30
4509711696	1914	The opening of the Panama Canal	31
4509711697	1776	The Declaration of Independence is written in America	32
4509711698	1789	The French Revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille	33
4509711699	1519	Hernan Cortes invades Tenochtitlan	34
4509711700	1997	The British return Hong Kong to China	35
4509711701	1914	WWI begins	36
4509711702	1979	The Islamic Revolution takes place in Iran	37
4509711703	1215	The Magna Carta is signed in England	38
4509711704	1941	Japanese attack Pearl Harbor which draws the US into WWII	39
4509711705	1054	The schism between eastern and western Christianity	40
4509711706	1604	Beginning of the Time of Troubles	41
4509711707	63	Romans remove the Jews from Jerusalem. The second Jewish Diaspora	42
4509711708	1600	Tokugawa Shogunate founded	43
4509711709	1949	Peoples Republic of China is proclaimed	44
4509711710	1917	The Communist (Bolshevik) Revolution in Russia	45
4509711711	1950	Korean War begins	46
4509711712	1571	Spanish defeat the the Ottomans at the Battle of Lepanto	47
4509711713	1265	The First English Parliament is convened	48
4509711714	1481	Portuguese fort El Mina is established	49
4509711715	1854	Beginning of the Crimean War	50
4509711716	1939	WWII begins	51
4509711717	1096	The 1st Crusade begins	52
4509711718	1368	End of Mongol rule in China	53
4509711719	1441	First shipment of African slaves to Portugal	54
4509711720	1962	Cuban Missile Crisis	55
4509711721	1954	The Vietnamese defeat the French at Dien Bien Phu	56
4509711722	1492	Columbus discovers the Americas	57
4509711723	1455	Gutenburg's printing press	58
4509711724	1050	China's printing press	59
4509711725	1931	Gandhi leads the Salt March	60
4509711726	1453	Fall of Constantinople	61
4509711727	1480	End of the Mongol rule in Russia	62
4509711728	1789	George Washington becomes the first American president as the new Constitution goes into effect	63
4509711729	1918	Treaty of Brest-Litovsk allows Russia to withdraw from WWI	64
4509711730	1066	William Normandy is Victorious at the Battle of Hastings	65
4509711731	632	Muhammad dies	66
4509711732	1947	India & Pakistan achieve independence	67
4509711733	1945	WWII ends with the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan	68
4509711734	1588	Britain defeats the Spanish Armada	69
4509711735	1514	Ottomans defeats the Safavids at Chaldiran	70
4509711736	1904	Russo-Japanese war begins	71
4509711737	1985	Mihail Gorbachev takes power in the Soviet Union	72
4509711738	1917	Balfour Declaration is issued	73
4509711739	690	Beginning of the reign of Empress Wu	74
4509711740	1607	First permanent British colony in Virginia	75
4509711741	1961	Berlin Wall is constructed	76
4509711742	1757	Victory at the Battle of Plassey gives the British dominance over India	77
4509711743	1948	Israel achieves independence. The first Arab-Israeli War begins immediately	78
4509711744	1839	Beginning of the Opium War	79