AP WORLD HISTORY DATES Flashcards
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| 4438892632 | 8000 bc. | Beginning of agriculture | 0 | |
| 4438892633 | 3000 bc. | Beginning of Bronze Age-early civilization | 1 | |
| 4438892634 | 1300 bc. | Iron age | 2 | |
| 4438892635 | 6th century | Life of Buddha, Confucius, laozi. | 3 | |
| 4438892636 | 5th century | Greek golden age philosophers | 4 | |
| 4438892637 | 403-221 bc. | (Chinas) era of warring states | 5 | |
| 4438892638 | 323 bc. | Alexander the Great dies | 6 | |
| 4438892639 | 221 bc. | Qin dynasty unified china | 7 | |
| 4438892640 | 184 bc. | Fall of Mauryan dynasty | 8 | |
| 4438892641 | 32 ce. | Beginning of Christianity | 9 | |
| 4438892642 | 180 | End of Pax Romana | 10 | |
| 4438892643 | 220 | End of Han dynasty | 11 | |
| 4438892644 | 312 | Constantine converts to Christianity | 12 | |
| 4438892645 | 333 | Roman capital moved to Constantinople | 13 | |
| 4438892646 | 4th century | Beginning of trans Saharan trade routes | 14 | |
| 4438892647 | 476 | Fall of rome | 15 | |
| 4438892648 | 527 | Justinian rule of Byzantine empire | 16 | |
| 4438892649 | 550 | Fall of Gupta dynasty/empire | 17 | |
| 4438892650 | 622 | Founding of Islam | 18 | |
| 4438892651 | c. 730 | Printing invented in China | 19 | |
| 4438892652 | 732 | Battle of Tours | 20 | |
| 4438892653 | c. 900 | Decline of Classical Maya | 21 | |
| 4438892654 | 1054 | Great Schism in Christian Church | 22 | |
| 4438892655 | 1066 | Norman Conquest of England | 23 | |
| 4438892656 | 1071 | Battle of Manzikert | 24 | |
| 4438892657 | 1095 | Crusade I | 25 | |
| 4438892658 | 1206 | Chinggis Khan begins Mongol conquest | 26 | |
| 4438892659 | 1258 | Mongols sack Baghdad, end of Abbasid caliphate | 27 | |
| 4438892660 | 1271-1295 | Marco Polo's travels | 28 | |
| 4438892661 | 1279-1368 | Yuan (Mongol) dynasty in China | 29 | |
| 4438892662 | 1324 | Mansa Musa's Hajj | 30 | |
| 4438892663 | 1325-1349 | Travels of Ibn Battuta | 31 | |
| 4438892664 | 1347-1348 | Bubonic Plague in Europe | 32 | |
| 4438892665 | 1368-1644 | Ming Dynasty | 33 | |
| 4438892666 | 1405-1433 | Zheng He's Voyages | 34 | |
| 4438892667 | 1438 | Rise of the Inca empire | 35 | |
| 4438892668 | 1453 | Ottomans capture Constantinople | 36 | |
| 4438892669 | 1450's | Printing Press in Europe (Gutenberg) | 37 | |
| 4438892670 | c. 1480's | Height of Aztec Empire | 38 | |
| 4438892671 | 1488 | Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope | 39 | |
| 4438892672 | 1492 | Columbus/ Reconquista of Spain | 40 | |
| 4438892673 | 1502 | 1st African Slaves to Americas | 41 | |
| 4438892674 | 1517 | Martin Luther/ Prot Reformation | 42 | |
| 4438892675 | 1521 | Cortez conquered the Aztecs | 43 | |
| 4438892676 | 1529 | 1st unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna (under Suleiman) | 44 | |
| 4438892677 | 1533 | Pizarro toppled the Inca | 45 | |
| 4438892678 | 1545 | Discovery of silver at Potosi | 46 | |
| 4438892679 | 1571 | Battle of Lepanto (Ottoman naval defeat) | 47 | |
| 4438892680 | 1571 | 1st Manila Galleon (global trade) | 48 | |
| 4438892681 | 1588 | Spanish armada | 49 | |
| 4438892682 | 1600 | Battle of Sekigahara (beg of Tokugawa Shogunate) | 50 | |
| 4438892683 | 1607 | Foundation of Jamestown | 51 | |
| 4438892684 | 1618-1648 | 30 Years War | 52 | |
| 4438892685 | 1644 | End of Ming/ beg of Qing Dynasty | 53 | |
| 4438892686 | 1653 | Cape Town colony founded (Dutch) | 54 | |
| 4438892687 | 1683 | 2nd unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna (Mehmet IV) | 55 | |
| 4438892688 | 1689 | Glorious Revolution/ English Bill of Rights | 56 | |
| 4438892689 | 1756-1763 | 7 Years War (French and Indian War) | 57 | |
| 4438892690 | 1767 | Invention of the Spinning Jenny (using machines to manufacture) | 58 | |
| 4438892691 | 1776 | Decl. of Independence (American Rev) | 59 | |
| 4438892692 | 1776 | Smith writes Wealth of Nations | 60 | |
| 4438892693 | 1789 | French Revolution begins | 61 | |
| 4438892694 | 1796 | Jenner's smallpox vaccine | 62 | |
| 4438892695 | 1804 | Haitian Independence | 63 | |
| 4438892696 | 1807 | British abolish Trans-Atlantic slave trade | 64 | |
| 4438892697 | 1807-1808 | Janissary Revolt | 65 | |
| 4438892698 | 1815 | Congress of Vienna | 66 | |
| 4438892699 | 1820s | Independence in Latin America | 67 | |
| 4438892700 | 1839 | 1st Opium War in China | 68 | |
| 4438892701 | 1839-1878 | Tanzimat Reforms | 69 | |
| 4438892702 | 1848 | Marx & Engles' The Communist Manifesto | 70 | |
| 4438892703 | 1848-1849 | European revolutions | 71 | |
| 4438892704 | 1853 | Commodore Perry opens Japan | 72 | |
| 4438892705 | 1857 | Sepoy Mutiny | 73 | |
| 4438892706 | 1861 | end of Russian serfdom | 74 | |
| 4438892707 | 1861-1865 | U.S. Civil War | 75 | |
| 4438892708 | 1861-1870 | Italian unification | 76 | |
| 4438892709 | 1863 | U.s. Emancipation Proclamation | 77 | |
| 4438892710 | 1871 | German unification | 78 | |
| 4438892711 | 1885 | Berlin Conference division of Africa (begins "Scramble for Africa") | 79 | |
| 4438892712 | 1893 | New Zealand grants woman suffrage | 80 | |
| 4438892713 | 1896 | Battle of Adowa (Ethiopians defeat Italians) | 81 | |
| 4438892714 | 1898 | Spanish-American War (US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico) | 82 | |
| 4438892715 | 1899-1902 | Boer War (British in control of S Africa) | 83 | |
| 4438892716 | 1905 | Russo-Japanese war | 84 | |
| 4438892717 | 1910-1920 | Mexican Revolution (Diaz overthrown) | 85 | |
| 4438892718 | 1911 | Chinese Revolution (end of Qing) | 86 | |
| 4438892719 | 1914-1918 | World War I | 87 | |
| 4438892720 | 1917 March | Russian Revolution (Czar Abdicates) | 88 | |
| 4438892721 | 1917 Oct/Nov | Russian Revolution (Communist/Bolshevik) | 89 | |
| 4438892722 | 1918 Nov | Armistice (end of WWI fighting) | 90 | |
| 4438892723 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles | 91 | |
| 4438892724 | 1928 | Kellogg-Briand Pact (outlawing war) | 92 | |
| 4438892725 | 1929 | Stock market crash | 93 | |
| 4438892726 | 1931 | Japanese invasion of Manchuria | 94 | |
| 4438892727 | 1935 | Italian invasion of Ethiopia | 95 | |
| 4438892728 | 1939 | German blitzkrieg in Poland | 96 | |
| 4438892729 | 1937 | Japanese invasion of (rest of) China (rape of Nanking) | 97 | |
| 4438892730 | 1941 | Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII | 98 | |
| 4438892731 | 1945 Feb | Yalta Conference (beg of Cold War?) | 99 | |
| 4438892732 | 1945 Aug | Hiroshima/Nagasaki | 100 | |
| 4438892733 | 1945 Sept | End of WWII (Japan surrenders) | 101 | |
| 4438892734 | 1947 Aug | Independence & partition of India | 102 | |
| 4438892735 | 1947 June | Truman Doctrine ("official" decl of Cold War) | 103 | |
| 4438892736 | 1948 | Birth of Israel | 104 | |
| 4438892737 | 1948-1949 | Berlin Blockade/Airlift | 105 | |
| 4438892738 | 1949 Apr | NATO founded | 106 | |
| 4438892739 | 1949 Oct | Chinese Communist Revolution | 107 | |
| 4438892740 | 1950-1953 | Korean War | 108 | |
| 4438892741 | 1954 | Vietnamese expels France (Dien Bien Phu) | 109 | |
| 4438892742 | 1955 | Bandung Conf (Non-Aligned Nations) | 110 | |
| 4438892743 | 1956 Feb | Khrushchev begins de-Stalinization | 111 | |
| 4438892744 | 1956 Fall | Nationalization of Suez Canal | 112 | |
| 4438892745 | 1957 | Sputnik | 113 | |
| 4438892746 | 1959 | Cuban Revolution (Fidel Castro) | 114 | |
| 4438892747 | 1961-1989 Nov | Berlin Wall | 115 | |
| 4438892748 | 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis | 116 | |
| 4438892749 | 1966-1976 | Chinese Cultural Revolution | 117 | |
| 4438892750 | 1967 | 6-Days War | 118 | |
| 4438892751 | 1973 | Yom Kippur war (OPEC Oil Embargo) | 119 | |
| 4438892752 | 1979 | Iranian Revolution | 120 | |
| 4438892753 | 1979 | China begins "Socialist Market Economy" reforms (Deng Xiaoping) | 121 | |
| 4438892754 | 1987 | 1st Palestinian Intifada | 122 | |
| 4438892755 | 1989 June | Tiananmen Square | 123 | |
| 4438892756 | 1990 | Namibia gains independence (last African colony) | 124 | |
| 4438892757 | 1991 Jan | 1st Persian Gulf War | 125 | |
| 4438892758 | 1991 Dec | USSR disbands | 126 | |
| 4438892759 | 1994 Apr-July | Genocide in Rwanda | 127 | |
| 4438892760 | 1994 Apr | 1st all race elections in S. Africa | 128 | |
| 4438892761 | 2001 | 9/11 Attacks | 129 | |
| 4438892762 | 2003 | US invades Iraq ("Enduring Freedom") | 130 | |
| 4438892763 | 2004 | Facebook founded | 131 | |
| 4438892764 | 2007 | Global "Great Recession" begins | 132 | |
| 4438892765 | 2011 | Wikileaks, "Arab Spring" democracy | 133 |