AP World History MUST KNOW DATES Flashcards

4370177044	8000 B.C.E.	Beginnings of agriculture	0
4370177045	3000 B.C.E.	Beginnings of Bronze Age-early civ's	1
4370177046	1300 B.C.E.	Iron Age	2
4370177047	6th century B.C.E.	life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu(beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism)	3
4370177048	5th century B.C.E.	Greek Golden Age-philosophers	4
4370177049	323 B.C.E.	Alexander the Great	5
4370177050	221 B.C.E.	Qin unified China	6
4370177051	32 C.E.	Beginnings of Christianity	7
4370177052	180 C.E.	end of Pax Romana	8
4370177053	220 C.E.	end of Han Dynasty	9
4370177054	333 C.E.	Roman capital moved to Constantinople	10
4370177055	4th Century C.E.	Beginnings of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes	11
4370177056	476 C.E.	Fall of Rome	12
4370177057	527 C.E.	Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire	13
4370177058	622	Founding of Islam	14
4370177059	732	Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France)	15
4370177060	1054	Great Schism in Christian Church (Roman Catholic & Eastern Orthodox)	16
4370177061	1066	Norman conquest of England	17
4370177062	1071	Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byz)	18
4370177063	1095	1st crusade	19
4370177064	1258	Mongols sack Baghdad	20
4370177065	1271-1295	Marco Polo travels	21
4370177066	1324	Mansa Musa's pilgrimage	22
4370177067	1325-1349	travels of Ibn Battuta	23
4370177068	1347-1348	Bubonic Plague in Europe	24
4370177069	1433	end of Zheng He's voyages/Rise of Ottomans	25
4370177070	1453	Ottomans capture Constantinople- Change name to Istanbul	26
4370177071	1488	Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope- connecting Portuguese to Indian Ocean Trade	27
4370177072	1492	Columbus sailed the ocean blue/Reconquista of Spain	28
4370177073	1502	1st slaves to Americas	29
4370177074	1517	Martin Luther/95 theses- start of Protestant Reformation	30
4370177075	1521	Cortez conquered Aztecs	31
4370177076	1533	Pizzaro toppled the Inca	32
4370177077	1571	Battle of Lepanto (naval defeat of Ottomans)	33
4370177078	1588	defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British- opened up seas to exploration by Northern European nations (England, French, Dutch)	34
4370177079	1600	Battle of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa period	35
4370177080	1607	founding of Jamestown	36
4370177081	1618-1648	30 years war- Protestant vs. Catholic- ends with Treaty of Westphalia	37
4370177082	1683	unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna	38
4370177083	1689	Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights	39
4370177084	1756-1763	7 years war/French and Indian war	40
4370177085	1776	American Revoluion/Smith writes Wealth of Nations	41
4370177086	1789	French Revolution	42
4370177087	1804	Haitian independence	43
4370177088	1815	Congress of Vienna	44
4370177089	1820s	Independence in Latin America	45
4370177090	1839	1st Opium war in China	46
4370177091	1848	European revolutions/Marx & Engles write Communist Manifesto	47
4370177092	1853	Commodore Perry opens Japan	48
4370177093	1857	Sepoy Mutiny	49
4370177094	1861	end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification	50
4370177095	1863	Emacipation Proclamation in US	51
4370177096	1871	German unification	52
4370177097	1885	Berlin Conference - division of Africa	53
4370177098	1898	Spanish-American war - US acquires Philipphines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico	54
4370177099	1899	Boer war - British in control of South Africa	55
4370177100	1905	Russo-Japanese war- Japanese victory over Russians	56
4370177101	1910-1920	Mexican Revolution	57
4370177102	1911	Chinese Revolution- overthrow of last Chinese Emperor ( Qing Dynasty)	58
4370177103	1914	WW1	59
4370177104	1917	Russian Revolution- start of Communism in Russia	60
4370177105	1919	Treaty of Versailles - end of WW1	61
4370177106	1929	stock market crash- worldwide depression	62
4370177107	1931	Japanese invasion of Manchuria in China- leads of "Rape of Nanking"	63
4370177108	1935	Italian invasion of Ethiopia	64
4370177109	1939	German blitzkrieg in Poland	65
4370177110	1941	Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WW2	66
4370177111	1945	end of WW2	67
4370177112	1947	independence & partition of India	68
4370177113	1948	birth of Israel	69
4370177114	1949	Chinese Communist Revolution	70
4370177115	1950-1953	Korean War	71
4370177116	1954	Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu	72
4370177117	1956	de-Stalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal	73
4370177118	1959	Cuban Revolution	74
4370177119	1962	Cuban missile crisis	75
4370177120	1967	6 day war - Israel vs. Palestine/Chinese Cultural Revolution	76
4370177122	1979	Iranian Revolution	77
4370177123	1987	1st palestinian Intifada- PLO attempt at creating an independent Palestine	78
4370177124	1989	Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin wall	79
4370177125	1991	fall of USSR/1st Gulf war	80
4370177126	1994	genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in South Africa	81
4370177127	2001	9/11 attacks	82