AP World History Dates Flashcards

If B.C.E. is not specified then it is C.E.

6607952486	8000 BCE- 600 CE	Period 1: Technological and Environmental Transformations	0
6607952487	8000 B.C.E.	Beginnings of agriculture	1
6607954102	4000 B.C.E.	First cities/ Beginning of the cultivation of maize in Mesoamerica	2
6607956252	3200 B.C.E.	Beginning of Sumerian Dominance of Mesopotamia	3
6607952488	3000 B.C.E.	Beginnings of Bronze Age - Beginning of agriculture in South America and New Guinea	4
6607959604	3000 B.C.E. - 1000 C.E.	Indo-European Migrations	5
6607961553	2600-2500 B.C.E.	Pyramid Construction in Egypt	6
6607962356	2500-2000 B.C.E.	Height of Harappan society in South Asia	7
6607964523	2350 B.C.E.	Beginning of regional empires in Mesopotamia	8
6607966311	2200 B.C.E	Beginning of Chinese Dynastic Rule	9
6607966975	2000 B.C.E.	Beginning of the Bantu Migrations	10
6607968040	1500 B.C.E.	Beginning of the Aryan migrations to South Asia	11
6607969388	1500-500 B.C.E.	Vedic age in South Asia	12
6607972622	1500 B.C.E.-700 C.E.	Austronesian migrations	13
6607952489	1300 B.C.E.	Iron Age	14
6607975920	1000-970 B.C.E.	Rule of Hebrew King David	15
6607977374	900 B.C.E.	Invention of ironworking in sub-Saharan Africa	16
6607978507	800 B.C.E.	Establishment of the Greek Poleis	17
6607980924	722 B.C.E.	Assyrian conquest of Israel	18
6607981804	586 B.C.E.	New Babylonian (Chaldean) conquest of Judah	19
6607952490	600 BCE - 600 CE	Period 2: Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies	20
6607952491	6th century B.C.E.	Life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu (beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taosim)	21
6607991889	509 B.C.E.	Establishment of the Roman republic	22
6607952492	500-350B.C.E.	Greek Golden Age - philosophers.	23
6607995703	480-221 B.C.E.	Era of Warring States in China	24
6607952493	336-323 B.C.E.	Rule of Alexander (of Macedon) the Great	25
6607996661	330 B.C.E.	Conquest of the Achaemenid Empire by ATG	26
6608006225	300 B.C.E.- 0 C.E. ish	Spread of Buddhism and Hinduism from South Asia	27
6607952494	221 B.C.E.	Qin unified China	28
6607952497	206 B.C.E.-220 C.E.	Han Dynasty in China	29
6607952496	20 B.C.E. - 180 C.E.	Pax Romana	30
6608001389	4 B.C.E.-29 C.E.	Life of Jesus Christ	31
6607952495	32 C.E.	Beginnings of Christianity	32
6608002195	300-1100 C.E.	Mayan civilization	33
6608010636	320-550 C.E.	Gupta dynasty in India	34
6607952498	333 C.E.	Roman capital moved to Constantinople	35
6607952499	4th century C.E.	Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes	36
6607952500	476 C.E.	Fall of Rome	37
6607952501	527 C.E.	Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire	38
6607952502	600 C.E. -1450	Period 3: Regional and Transregional Interactions	39
6610762355	570-632	Life of Muhammad	40
6610763115	618-907	Tang Dynasty in China	41
6607952503	622 C.E.	The Hijra	42
6610764082	711-1492	Muslim occupation of Spain	43
6607952504	732 C.E.	Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France)	44
6610766278	750-1258	Abbasid Dynasty	45
6610767738	960-1279	Song Dynasty in China	46
6607952505	1054 C.E.	Great Schism in Christian Church (Roman Catholic & Eastern Orthodox)	47
6610769000	1066	Norman Invasion of England	48
6607952506	1096	1st Crusade	49
6610771693	1000-1200 ish	Kingdom of Ghana	50
6610772713	1000-1400 ish	Swahili cities in East Africa	51
6610775866	1100-1400 ish	Kingdom of Great Zimbabwe	52
6610776705	1100-1500 ish	Kingdom of Axum	53
6610777489	1200ish	Beginning of chiefdoms in Oceana	54
6610784313	1200-1400 ish	Empire of Mali	55
6610785515	1206-1526	Sultanate of Delhi in India	56
6610788057	1211	Beginning of Mongol Conquests	57
6607952507	1258	Mongols sack Baghdad	58
6607952508	1271-1295	Marco Polo travels to China	59
6610790257	1279-1368	Yuan Dynasty in China (Mongol)	60
6610792637	1289	Founding of the Ottoman Dynasty	61
6610793538	1304-1369	Life of Ibn Battuta	62
6607952509	1324	Mansa Musa's pilgrimage	63
6607952510	1325-1349	travels of Ibn Battuta	64
6610796665	1325	Founding of Tenochititlán by the Mexica (Aztecs)	65
6610800376	1330s	Beginning of the Bubonic Plague in China	66
6610801052	1337-1453	Hundred Years' War	67
6607952511	1347-1348	Bubonic plague in Europe	68
6610805630	1368-1644	Ming Dynasty in China	69
6610814428	1400-1600 ish	Kingdom of Kongo	70
6610815344	1405-1433	Zheng He's voyages in the Indian Ocean	71
6607952512	1433	end of Zheng He's voyages/Rise of Ottomans	72
6610817584	1441	Beginning of the Portuguese slave trade in Africa	73
6607952513	1450 CE - 1750	Period 4: Global Interactions	74
6607952514	1453	Fall of Byzantine Empire (eastern Roman Empire)/ Ottomans capture Constantinople/ End of 100 years war	75
6610828861	1464-1591	Empire of Songhay in Africa	76
6607952515	1488	Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope	77
6607952516	1492	Columbus sailed the ocean blue/ Reconquista of Spain	78
6610832320	1494	Treaty of Tordesillas	79
6610835059	1497-1498	Vasco da Gama's voyage to India	80
6607952517	1502	1st Slaves to Americas	81
6607952518	1517	Martin Luther/95 theses/Prodistant reformation	82
6607952519	1519-1521	Spanish conquest of Mexico (Cortez conquered the Aztecs)	83
6610840915	1526-1858	Mughal Dynasty in India	84
6610841687	1532-1540	Spanish conquest of Peru (Pizarro+ others)	85
6610843946	1545-1563	Council of Trent	86
6610845758	1588	Defeat of the Spanish Armada	87
6610846700	1603-1867	Tokugawa Shogunate (Japan)	88
6610848238	1613	Beginning of the Romanov dynasty of Russia	89
6607952521	1618-1648	30 years war	90
6610849665	1643-1715	Reign of Louis 14 of France	91
6610852689	1644-1911	Qing (Pure) dynasty in China	92
6607952522	1689	Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights	93
6607952523	1750 CE - 1900	Period 5: Industrialization and Global Integration	94
6607952524	1750	Beginnings of the Industrial Revolution in England	95
6607952525	1756-1763	7 Year's War/French and Indian War	96
6611415118	1775-1783	American Revolution	97
6607952526	1776	Smith writes Wealth of Nations	98
6611416014	1788	Founding of the first European colony in Australia	99
6607952527	1789-1799	French Revolution	100
6611419388	1793-1804	Haitian revolution	101
6607952528	1799-1814	Rule of Napoleon Bonaparte	102
6611423806	1805-1848	Rule of Muhammad Ali in Egypt	103
6611426361	1807	End of the British Slave trade	104
6611427847	1810-1825	Independence wars in Latin America	105
6607952529	1814-1815	Congress of Vienna	106
6607952530	1839-1879	Tanzimet era in the Ottoman Empire (series of reforms)	107
6607952531	1839-1842	1st opium war in China	108
6607952532	1848	European revolutions/Marx & Engles write Communist Manifesto	109
6611438534	1850-1864	Taiping Revolution in China	110
6607952533	1853	Matthew Perry's expedition to Tokyo (opens Japan)	111
6607952534	1857	Sepoy Mutiny(rebellion)	112
6607952535	1861	end of Russian serfdom	113
6611448433	1861-1865	US Civil War	114
6607952536	1865	Abolition of slavery in the US	115
6611453959	1867	Establishment of the Dominion of Canada	116
6611455652	1868	Meiji Restoration in Japan	117
6611456828	1869	Opening of the Suez Canal	118
6611457902	1870	Unification of Italy	119
6607952537	1871	German unification	120
6607952538	1884-1885	Berlin Conference - division of Africa	121
6611461102	1888	Abolition of slavery in Brazil	122
6607952539	1898-1899	Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico	123
6607952540	1899-1902	Boer War-British in control of South Africa	124
6607952541	1900 CE - Present	Period 6: Accelerating Global Change and Realignments	125
6607952542	1904-1905	Russo-Japanese war	126
6611491662	1905	Revolution of 1905 in Russia/Einstein's theory of relativity	127
6611494961	1908-1918	Young Turk era	128
6607952543	1910-1920	Mexican Revolution	129
6607952544	1911-1912	Chinese Revolution; end of Chinese dynastic Rule	130
6611498170	1914	Opening of Panama Canal	131
6607952545	1914-1918	WWI	132
6611498906	1917	Bolshevik Revolution (October revolution)	133
6607952546	1918	Treaty of Brest-Litovsk	134
6607952547	1919	Treaty of Versailles-end of WWI/May fourth movement in China	135
6611506643	1921-1928	Lenin's New Economic Policy	136
6611508664	1923	End of Ottoman Empire/Establishment of the Republic of Turkey	137
6611510578	1928-1932	First of Stalin's Five Year Plans	138
6607952548	1929	Stock Market Crash/ Great Depression	139
6607952549	1931	Japanese invasion of Manchuria	140
6611523192	1933	Hitler's rise to Power in Germany	141
6607952550	1935	Italian invasion of Ethiopia/Government of India act	142
6611526703	1937	Japanese invasion of China	143
6607952551	1939	German blitzkrieg in Poland	144
6607952552	1941	Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII	145
6607952553	1945	Atomic Bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki/ end of WWII	146
6607952554	1947	independence & partition of India/ Truman Doctrine	147
6607952555	1948	Marshall Plan/Creation of Israel/Establishment of Apartheid in South Africa/Universal Doctrine of Human Rights	148
6607952556	1949	Division of Germany/Establishment of NATO/ Establishment of the People's Republic of China	149
6607952557	1950-1953	Korean War	150
6607952558	1954	Division of Vietnam/Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu	151
6611543023	1955	Establishment of Warsaw Pact	152
6607952559	1956	Suez Crisis/Soviet invasion of Hungary	153
6611547060	1957	Independence in Ghana	154
6611548199	1958-1961	Great Leap Forward in China	155
6607952560	1959	Cuban Revolution	156
6611550146	1960	Establishment of OPEC(Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries)	157
6611554530	1961	Construction of Berlin Wall	158
6607952561	1962	Cuban missile crisis	159
6611555536	1964	Sino-Soviet Rift	160
6607952562	1967	6-day war/Chinese Cultural Revolution/Estabishment of European Community	161
6611563655	1968	Prague Spring	162
6611565632	1972	Beginning of détente	163
6607952563	1973	Yom Kippur war(Arab-Israeli War)/Beginning of Arab oil embargo	164
6611572941	1975	Fall of Vietnam	165
6607952564	1979	Iranian Revolution	166
6611573960	1980-1988	Iran-Iraq War	167
6607952565	1987	1st Palestinian Intifada(Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.)	168
6607952566	1989	Tiananmen Square(student-led demonstrations in Beijing) (Massacre)/fall of Berlin Wall	169
6607952567	1991	fall of USSR/End of Cold War/1st Gulf war(Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm)(35 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.)	170
6611623344	1993	Establishment of NAFTA(The North American Free Trade Agreement)	171
6607952568	1994	genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S. Africa	172
6611627196	1995	Establishment of the World Trade Organization	173
6611628833	1997	Transfer of Hong Kong to China	174
6607952569	2001	9/11 Attacks	175
6611629998	2003	US Coalition-Iraq War	176
6611631261	2008-2010	Global Economic Crisis	177