AP World History Dates Flashcards

2452546816	8000 BCE	beginnings of agriculture	0
2452548789	3000 BCE	beginnings of Bronze Age- early civilizations	1
2452549719	1700's BCE	Hammurabi Code	2
2452551169	1500 BCE	early alphabetic script/Beginnings of Hinduism in India	3
2452553477	1300 BCE	Iron age	4
2452555220	900 BCE- 600 BCE	Assyrian Empire	5
2452556233	500 BCE	life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu (beginning of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism)	6
2452587189	500 - 44BCE	Roman republic	7
2459026986	400 BCE	Greek Golden age	8
2459027259	323 BCE	Alexander the Great	9
2459027629	221 BCE	Qin unified China	10
2459030689	32 CE	Beginnings of Christianity	11
2459031267	180 CE	end of Pax Romana	12
2459031992	220 CE	End of Han dynasty	13
2459040620	333 CE	Roman capital moved to Constantinople	14
2459041527	400 CE	Beginning of Trans Saharan Trade routes	15
2459041844	476 CE	Fall of Rome	16
2459042244	476 CE - 1000ish CE	The Dark Ages/Medieval Period	17
2459043472	527 CE	Justinian rule of Byzantine empire	18
2459043812	589-618 CE	Sui Dynasty and return of centralizes rule to China	19
2459044390	632 CE	rise of Islam	20
2459044957	732 CE	Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France)	21
2459045313	750-1250 CE	Tang and Song Dynasty oversee China's "Economic and Commercial Revolution"	22
2566836670	750-1258	Abbasid Dynasty (Islamic golden age/capital of Baghdad)	23
2566838426	790-1100	Rise of Vikings	24
2566838982	800	Charlemagne's Coronation	25
2566839331	1054	schism in Christian church	26
2566839891	1066	Norman Conquest of England	27
2566840461	1071	Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byz)	28
2566841020	1095	1st crusade	29
2566841654	1215	Magna Carta Signed	30
2566842211	1258	Mongols sack Baghdad	31
2566846052	1271-1295	marco polo travels	32
2566860547	1324	Mansa Musa's pilgrimage	33
2566861175	1325-1349	travels of Ibn Battutta	34
2566862017	1347-1348	Bubonic plague in Europe	35
2566863337	1400	Renaissance begins	36
2566870341	1433	end of Zheng He's voyages/Rise of Ottomans	37
2566872157	1453	Ottomans capture Constantinople	38
2566874051	1488	Dias rounded Cape of Good hope	39
2566874854	1492	Columbus sailed the ocean blue/ Reconquista of Spain	40
2566874855	1494	treaty of Tordesillas and division of new world	41
2566875757	1502	slaves to America	42
2566876421	1517	Martin Luther/ 95 theses	43
2566877127	1521	Cortez conquered the Aztecs	44
2566878196	1533	Pizarro toppled the Inca	45
2566880527	1571	Battle of Lepanto (naval defeat of Ottomans)	46
2566880860	1588	defeat of Spanish Armada	47
2566881258	1600	beginning of Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan	48
2566881839	1607	foundation of Jamestown	49
2566882530	1618-1648	30 years war	50
2566884460	1633	Japans closed door policy begins	51
2566884887	1650	Age of Enlightenment/reason in Europe	52
2566885555	1750	Industrial Revolution begins in England	53
2566885556	1789	French Revolution	54
2566887328	1821	Mexican Independence (NOT revolution)	55
2566887329	1823	Monroe Doctrine	56
2566887334	1839-1842	Opium War in China	57
2566888139	1853	Commodore Perry/USA open Japan	58
2566890576	1861	Serfdom abolished in Russia	59
2566892480	1871	Germany unifies under Bismarck	60
2566895054	1885	Berlin Conference- Imperialism and the "scramble for Africa"	61
2566895714	1910-1920	Mexican Revolution	62
2566896139	1914-1918	WWI	63
2566896140	1917	Russian Revolution	64
2566896693	1939-1945	WWII	65
2566896694	1947	Truman Doctrine/Cold war begins, India Pakistan partition	66
2566899471	1948	Israel Founded/Gandhi assassinated	67
2566900118	1949	People's republic of China Established	68
2566900779	1962	Cuban missile crisis	69
2566903442	1979	Iranian revolution (rise of Islamism, jihad)	70
2566903443	1989	Tiananmen square/fall of Berlin Wall	71
2566904083	2001	9/11 attacks	72