Ap World History Chronology Flashcards

4512658904	610	Muhammad begins receiving revelations	0
4512658905	1517	Martin Luther nails the 95 Theses to a church door in Wittenberg	1
4512658906	551 BCE	The birth of Confucius	2
4512658907	1861	The emancipation of the serfs in Russia	3
4512658908	1990	Nelson Mandela is released from prison	4
4512658909	1469	The union of Aragon and Castile, which creates a united Spanish monarchy	5
4512658910	1200 BCE	Judaism, the first monotheistic religion, begins	6
4512658911	535	Fall of Gupta Empire	7
4512658912	220 BCE	Fall of Han China	8
4512658913	476	Fall of the Roman Empire	9
4512658914	1613	Beginning of the Romanov dynasty	10
4512658915	313	The Roman Emperor Constantine converts to Christianity	11
4512658916	1815	The Congress of Vienna begins	12
4512658917	1803	The purchase of Louisiana from France by the United States	13
4512658918	1776	The Wealth of Nations is published	14
4512658919	1324	The pilgrimage of Mansa Musa	15
4512658920	39	The Trung Sisters revolt in Vietnam	16
4512658921	500 BCE	Lao-zi and Daoism	17
4512658922	563 BCE	Birth of Siddhartha Gautama who later becomes the Buddha	18
4512658923	622	Muhammad leaves Mecca for Medina. The Hijra, the official beginning of Islam	19
4512658924	330	Constantine establishes Constantinople as the capital of the eastern Roman Empire	20
4512658925	1533	Fall of the Inca to Pizarro	21
4512658926	1929	Beginning of the Great Depression	22
4512658927	1492	Fall of Granada the last Muslim kingdom in Spain	23
4512658928	1792	Slave rebellion in Saint Domingue led by Toussaint L'Overture	24
4512658929	1258	Fall of Baghdad to Mongol destruction	25
4512658930	794	Japanese capital moves to Heian	26
4512658931	800	Crowing of Charlemagne	27
4512658932	1919	Treaty of Versailles ends World War 1	28
4512658933	1991	Fall of the Soviet Union	29
4512658934	1869	The opening of the Suez Canal	30
4512658935	1914	The opening of the Panama Canal	31
4512658936	1776	The Declaration of Independence is written in America	32
4512658937	1789	The French Revolution begins with the storming of the Bastille	33
4512658938	1519	Hernan Cortes invades Tenochtitlan	34
4512658939	1997	The British return Hong Kong to China	35
4512658940	1914	World War 1 begins	36
4512658941	1979	The Islamic Revolution takes place in Iran	37
4512658942	1215	The Magna Carta is signed in England	38
4512658943	1941	Japanese attack Pearl Harbor which draws the US into World War 2	39
4512658944	1054	The schism between eastern and western Christianity	40
4512658945	1604	Beginning of the Time of Troubles	41
4512658946	63	Romans remove the Jews from Jerusalem. The Jewish Disapora	42
4512658947	1603	Tokugawa Shogunate founded	43
4512658948	1949	Peoples Republic of China is proclaimed	44
4512658949	1917	The Communist (Bolshevik) Revolution in Russia	45
4512658950	1950	Korean War begins	46
4512658951	1571	Spanish defeat the Ottomans at the Battle of Lepanto	47
4512658952	1265	The First English Parliament is covened	48
4512658953	1481	Portuguese fort of El Mina is established	49
4512658954	1854	Beginning of the Crimean War	50
4512658955	1939	World War 2 begins	51
4512658956	1096	The first Crusade begins	52
4512658957	1368	End of Mongol rule in China	53
4512658958	1441	First shipment of African slaves to Portugal	54
4512658959	1962	Cuban Missile Crisis	55
4512658960	1954	Vietnamese defeat the French at Dien Bien Phu	56
4512658961	1492	Columbus discovers the Americans	57
4512658962	1455	Gutenberg's printing press	58
4512658963	1050	China's printing press	59
4512658964	1931	Gandhi leads the Salt March	60
4512658965	1453	Fall of Constantinople	61
4512658966	1480	End of Mongol rule in Russia	62
4512658967	1789	George Washington becomes the first American president as the new Constitution goes into effect	63
4512658968	1918	Treaty of Brest-Litovsk allows Russia to withdraw from World War 1	64
4512658969	1066	William of Normandy is victorious at the Battle of Hastings	65
4512658970	632	Muhammad dies	66
4512658971	1947	India and Pakistan achieve independence	67
4512658972	1945	World War 2 ends with the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan	68
4512658973	1588	Britain defeats the Spanish Armada	69
4512658974	1514	Ottomans defeat the Safavids at Chaldiran	70
4512658975	1904	Russo-Japanese War begins	71
4512658976	1985	Mikhail Gorbachev takes power in the Soviet Union	72
4512658977	1917	Balfour Declaration is issued	73
4512658978	690	Beginning of the reign of Empress Wu. Buddhist influence peaks in China	74
4512658979	1607	First permanent British colony in Virginia	75
4512658980	1961	Berlin Wall is constructed	76
4512658981	1757	Victory at the Battle of Plassey gives the British dominance over India	77
4512658982	1948	Israel achieves independence. The first Arab-Israeli War begins immediately	78
4512658983	1839	Beginning of the Opium War	79