AP World History Dates Flashcards

9779109425	1500 BCE	Beginning of Hinduism in India	0
9779109426	500 BCE	Beginning of Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism	1
9779112192	480-404 BCE	Golden age of Athens, Greece	2
9779112193	500-44 BCE	Roman republic	3
9779115447	323 BCE	Alexander the Great	4
9779115448	221 BCE	Qin unifies China	5
9779129381	200 BCE - 220 CE	Han dynasty in China	6
9779129382	333 CE	Roman capital splits into Constantinople	7
9779129383	44 BCE	Roman empire	8
9779132517	32 CE	Beginning of Christianity	9
9779132561	476-1000ish	Dark ages/medieval period	10
9779136817	527	Justinians rule of Byzantine Empire	11
9779136818	589-618	Sui dynasty and return of centralized rule to China	12
9779140491	622 BCE	Founding of Islam	13
9779158915	732	Battle of Tours (and Muslim move into France)	14
9779164203	750-1250	Tang and Song Dynasty oversee Chinas "economic and commercial revolution"	15
9779174607	750-1258	Abbasid dynasty (Islanmic golden age/ capital of Baghdad)	16
9779174608	790-1100	Rise of the Vikings	17
9779177973	800	Charlemagnes coronation	18
9779177974	1054	Great Schism in Christian Church (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox)	19
9779181109	1066	Norman conquest of England	20
9779181110	1095	Beginning of Crusades	21
9779181111	1200	Rise of the Mongols (silk roads revitalizes, etc.)	22
9779185377	1215	Magna Carta signed (one of the first constitutions)	23
9779185378	1258	Mongols sack Baghdad/ end of Abbasid dynasty and golden age	24
9779189837	1271-1295	Travels of Marco Polo	25
9779189838	1324	Mansa Musas (Mali Empire) pilgrimage (hajj)	26
9779195369	1325-1349	Travels of Ibn Battuta	27
9779195370	1347-1348	Bubonic Plague in Europe	28
9779199187	1400	Renaissance (1400ish-1650) begins to formulate in northern Italy	29
9779206530	1433	End of Zheng He's Ming Dynasty voyages/ rise of Ottomans	30
9779407696	1453	Ottomans capture Constantinople (Istanbul)/ Ottoman Empire Formed	31
9779407697	1492	Columbus sail the ocean blue/ Columbian Exchange begins/ Reconquista of Spain	32
9779411199	1494	Treaty of tordesillas and division of new world	33
9779414176	1517	Martin Luther/ 95 thesis (Protestant reformation)	34
9779414177	1521	Cortez conquers the Aztecs	35
9779417338	1543	Copernicus publishes Celestial Spheres (1543-1700s, roughly, the start of the scientific revolution)	36
9779417339	1600	Japan unified under the towugawa shogunate	37
9779493995	1607	Establishment of Jamestown amd the British colonies in the Americas (east India company/ joint stock company)	38
9779501233	1633	Japan's closed door policy begins	39
9779504448	1650-1800s	Age of Enlightenment/ reason in Europe	40
9779504449	1750	Industrial revolution begins in England	41
9779507334	1789	French Revolution	42
9779507335	1821	Mexican independence (not revolution)	43
9779507336	1823	Monroe doctrine	44
9779511680	1839-1842	Opium war in China (imperial aggression by British to reverse flow of silver/bullion into China, as part of economic policy of mercantilism)	45
9779511681	1853	Commodore perry/ USA open Japan	46
9779517766	1861	Serfdom abolishes in Russia	47
9779584114	1871	Germany unified under Bismarck	48
9779588982	1885	Berlin conference -imperialism and the "scramble for Africa"	49
9779589183	1910-1920	Mexican Revolution	50
9779594087	1914-1918	WWI ( Panama Canal completeled in 1914)	51
9779594088	1917	Russian Revolution	52
9779599704	1939-1945	WWII	53
9779599705	1947	Truman doctrine/ Cold War begins ('49-'91), India/ Pakistan partition	54
9779605361	1948	Israel founded/ Gandhi assassinated	55
9779605362	1949	Peoples republic of China established	56
9779610209	1962	Cuban missile crisis (cold was era 1945-1991)	57
9779613897	1979	Iranian revolution (rise of Islam, jihad, etc.)	58
9779613898	1989	Tiananmen Square/ Fall of Berlin Wall	59
9779617691	2001	9/11 Attacks	60
9779745399	World regions- a big picture view		61
9779745400	World regions- a closer look		62