AP World History - Dates Flashcards
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6789710308 | 8000 BCE | Neolithic Revolution | 0 | |
6789715049 | 3000 BCE | Beginning of Bronze Age | 1 | |
6789715050 | 1300 BCE | Beginning of Iron Age | 2 | |
6789801820 | 323 BCE | Death of Alexander the Great | 3 | |
6789718986 | 221 BCE | Formation of Qin dynasty | 4 | |
6789798206 | 185 BCE | Fall of Mauryan dynasty | 5 | |
6789719625 | 32 CE | Beginnings of Christianity | 6 | |
6789723270 | 220 CE | Fall of Han dynasty | 7 | |
6789726022 | 313 CE | Emp. Constantine issues Edict of Milan, adopting Christianity | 8 | |
6789797224 | 330 CE | Roman capital moved to Constantinople | 9 | |
6789728244 | 476 CE | Fall of Rome | 10 | |
6789818763 | 550 CE | Fall of Gupta dynasty | 11 | |
6789729142 | 622 CE | Beginnings of Islam | 12 | |
6789737698 | 732 CE | Battle of Tours, halts Muslim expansion into Europe | 13 | |
6789731007 | 1054 | Great Schism in Europe | 14 | |
6789859255 | 1066 | Norman conquest of England | 15 | |
6789861808 | 1071 | Battle of Manzikert - Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantium | 16 | |
6789732155 | 1095 | First Crusade begins | 17 | |
6789864223 | 1206 | Temujin declared khan Beginning of Mongol conquests | 18 | |
6789732156 | 1258 | Sack of Baghdad by the Mongols | 19 | |
6789866534 | 1271-1295 | Marco Polo's travels | 20 | |
6789868592 | 1324 | Mansa Musa's pilgrimage and travels begin | 21 | |
6789870134 | 1325-1349 | Ibn Battuta's travels | 22 | |
6789872077 | 1347-1348 | Bubonic plague sweeps Europe | 23 | |
6789873656 | 1405-1433 | Zheng He's voyages | 24 | |
6789771911 | 1453 | Constantinople falls to the Ottomans | 25 | |
6789776027 | 1488 | B. Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope | 26 | |
6789776940 | 1492 | Completion of Spanish Reconquista | 27 | |
6789777419 | 1492 | Columbus discovers the Americas for Europe | 28 | |
6789778377 | 1517 | Luther publishes 95 Theses | 29 | |
6789779383 | 1521 | Cortez defeats Aztecs | 30 | |
6789903356 | 1529 | Siege of Vienna halts Ottoman expansion into Europe | 31 | |
6789780347 | 1533 | Pizarro defeats Incas | 32 | |
6789904695 | 1545 | Silver discovered at Potosi | 33 | |
6789905434 | 1588 | Spanish Armada defeated by English and storms | 34 | |
6789909382 | 1600 | Tokugawa rule begins in Japan | 35 | |
6789781962 | 1607 | Founding of Jamestown | 36 | |
6789911049 | 1618-1648 | Thirty Years' War | 37 | |
6789911050 | 1644 | Fall of Ming dynasty | 38 | |
6789911584 | 1688 | Glorious Revolution in England | 39 | |
6789916655 | 1689 | Creation of English Bill of Rights | 40 | |
6789917676 | 1756-1763 | Seven Years' War | 41 | |
6789948839 | 1764 | Spinning Jenny invented | 42 | |
6789948840 | 1776 | American Revolution: Declaration of Independence | 43 | |
6789951147 | 1789 | Start of French Revolution | 44 | |
6789951148 | 1804 | Haitian independence and abolition of slavery | 45 | |
6789951727 | 1807 | Britain and US abolish transatlantic slave trade | 46 | |
6789952378 | 1815 | Congress of Vienna: European nations try to find balance of power | 47 | |
6789953684 | 1820s | Decade of Latin American independence | 48 | |
6789954989 | 1839-1842 | First Opium War | 49 | |
6789955761 | 1848 | Communist Manifesto written (and proofread) | 50 | |
6789956293 | 1853 | Commodore Perry opens Japan | 51 | |
6789957765 | 1857 | Sepoy Mutiny in India | 52 | |
6789958317 | 1861 | End of Russian serfdom | 53 | |
6789959020 | 1863 | End of slavery in US with Emancipation Proclamation | 54 | |
6789960042 | 1871 | German and Italian unification completed | 55 | |
6789961059 | 1884-1885 | Berlin Conference | 56 | |
6789962355 | 1896 | Battle of Adwa: Ethiopia defeats Italians, retains its independence | 57 | |
6789963123 | 1898 | Spanish-American War | 58 | |
6789963890 | 1899-1902 | Boer War in South Africa | 59 | |
6789965034 | 1905 | Russo-Japanese War | 60 | |
6790029884 | 1911 | Fall of Qing dyansty | 61 | |
6790029885 | 1911 | Porfirio Diaz overthrown in Mexico | 62 | |
6790030799 | 1914-1918 | World War I | 63 | |
6790031204 | 1917 | Russian Czar abdicates | 64 | |
6790031965 | 1917 | Russian Revolution and Communist takeover | 65 | |
6790032956 | 1918 | End of WWI | 66 | |
6790032957 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles signed | 67 | |
6790034321 | 1928 | Kellogg-Briand Pact tries to outlaw war | 68 | |
6790035059 | 1929 | Stock market crash and beginning of Great Depression | 69 | |
6790036327 | 1931 | Japan invades Manchuria | 70 | |
6790036827 | 1935 | Italy invades Ethiopia | 71 | |
6790036828 | 1937 | Japan invades China | 72 | |
6790037180 | 1939 | Japan invades Poland | 73 | |
6790037181 | 1941 | Pearl Harbor bombings | 74 | |
6790037883 | 1945 | Yalta Conference | 75 | |
6790038408 | 1945 | Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japanese surrender | 76 | |
6790039699 | 1947 | Truman Doctrine | 77 | |
6790040284 | 1947 | Indian independence and partition | 78 | |
6790041108 | 1948 | Birth of Israel | 79 | |
6790041691 | 1948-1949 | Berlin Blockade and Airlift | 80 | |
6790041692 | 1949 | NATO founded | 81 | |
6790042179 | 1949 | End of Chinese Communist Revolution | 82 | |
6790130835 | 1950-1953 | Korean War | 83 | |
6790130836 | 1954 | Vietnam expels French | 84 | |
6790131276 | 1956 | Suez Canal nationalized | 85 | |
6790131625 | 1957 | Sputnik launched, beginning of space race | 86 | |
6790132457 | 1959 | Cuban Revolution | 87 | |
6790133429 | 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis | 88 | |
6790133878 | 1966-1976 | Chinese Cultural Revolution | 89 | |
6790133879 | 1967 | 6-Day War | 90 | |
6790134567 | 1973 | Yom Kippur War | 91 | |
6790135041 | 1973 | OPEC Embargo | 92 | |
6790135042 | 1979 | Socialist Market economy begins in China, under Deng Xiaoping | 93 | |
6790135727 | 1979 | Iran Revolution | 94 | |
6790137107 | 1987 | 1st Palestinian Intifada: uprising against Israelis | 95 | |
6790137853 | 1989 | Tiananmen Square: protests and massacre | 96 | |
6790138906 | 1989 | Berlin Wall falls | 97 | |
6790139366 | 1990 | Namibia gains independence from South Africa - last African nation to gain independence | 98 | |
6790140761 | 1991 | Gulf War | 99 | |
6790141245 | 1991 | Disillusion of USSR | 100 | |
6790141748 | 1994 | Rwandan genocide | 101 | |
6790141749 | 1994 | End of apartheid in South Africa | 102 | |
6790142673 | 2001 | 9/11 attacks | 103 | |
6790143290 | 2003 | US invades Iraq | 104 | |
6790143291 | 2008 | Global Great Recession | 105 | |
6790144561 | 2011 | Arab Spring | 106 |