AP World History Timeline Flashcards
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| 6823208250 | 3500 BCE | City-states of Sumer (cuneiform writing) Hindus Valley Empire of Akkad Egypt | 0 | |
| 6823208251 | 1750 BCE | Hammurabi and 1st Babylonian Empire Aryan Invasion of India | 1 | |
| 6823208252 | 1600-1100 BCE | Mycenaeans and the Trojan War | 2 | |
| 6823208253 | 1500-300 BCE | Phonecian city-states | 3 | |
| 6823208254 | 900 BCE | Assyrian Empire (conquers Nothern Israel in 722 BCE) | 4 | |
| 6823208255 | 800 BCE | Greek city-states emerge | 5 | |
| 6823208256 | 609 BCE | Nebuhadnezzar and Neo-babylonian Empire conquers Assyria | 6 | |
| 6823208257 | 539 BCE | Cyrus the Great and Persian Empire conquers Babylon | 7 | |
| 6823208258 | 510 BCE | Romans conquer Etruscans and take Italy over next 100 years | 8 | |
| 6823208259 | 500 BCE | Confucius in China Buddha in India Socrates in Greece Zoroaster in Persia | 9 | |
| 6823208260 | 490 BCE | Darius defeated by Athens at Marathon | 10 | |
| 6823208261 | 480 BCE | Spartans hold off Xerxes invasion at Thermopylae | 11 | |
| 6823208262 | 431-404 BCE | Great Peloponessian War | 12 | |
| 6823208263 | 333 BCE | Alexander the Great and the Greeks conquer Babylon | 13 | |
| 6823208264 | 322 BCE | Mauryan Empire arises in India under Chandragupta Mauryan as Greeks retreat | 14 | |
| 6823208265 | 300 BCE | Gen. Seleucus takes Syria to India Gen. Ptolemy thakes Eygpt to N. Africa | 15 | |
| 6823208266 | 50 BCE | Julius Caesar crosses Rubicon conquers Pompey... civil war | 16 | |
| 6823208267 | 27 BCE | Octavian crowned Caesar Augustus turning Roman Republic into Roman Empire | 17 | |
| 6823208268 | 30 CE | Jesus crucified Christianity begins to spread rapidly in Rome. | 18 | |
| 6823208269 | 313 CE | Constantine issues Edict of Milan legalizing Christianity. | 19 | |
| 6823208270 | 476 CE | Rome in the west falls to German General Odoacer | 20 | |
| 6823208271 | 500 CE | All of Europe if broken up into little countries all governed by Germanic general: Feudalism - unifying effect of Catholic Church | 21 | |
| 6823208272 | 1903 | December Wright Brothers achieve first powered flight | 22 | |
| 6823208273 | 1904-1914 | Digging under the Panama Canal under President Theodore Roosevelt | 23 | |
| 6823208274 | 1914-1918 | Great War: Britain & France vs. Germany & Austria-Hungary deaths: 16 million/ 116,000 US | 24 | |
| 6823208275 | 1917 | Russia leaves War and has Bolshevik Revolution, US enters after Zimmerman Telegram | 25 | |
| 6823208276 | 1918 | Winter Spanish flu (influenza pandemic) kills 50 million, 675,000 Americans | 26 | |
| 6823208277 | 1926 | Robert Goddard invents rocket technology | 27 | |
| 6823208278 | 1928 | Alexander Fleming discovers penicilin | 28 | |
| 6823208279 | 1929 | Stock market crash brings the Roaring 20's to abrupt halt/global Great Depression Dirty 30's | 29 | |
| 6823208280 | 1939 | Hitler and Stalin form non-aggression pact and both invade Poland beginning WW2 | 30 | |
| 6823208281 | 1941 | US enters WW2 against Axis Powers after Japan bombs Pearl Harbor on December 7th | 31 | |
| 6823208282 | 1944 | Breton Woods conference sets up the World Bank with US dollar as the reserve currency | 32 | |
| 6823208283 | 1945 | United Nations founded under communist spy in the US State Department, Alger Hiss | 33 | |
| 6823208284 | 1945 beginning | Germany surrenders May 8, Japan surrenders after we drop atomic bombs August 6 and 9 | 34 | |
| 6823208285 | 1948 | the Nation of Israel is reborn! | 35 | |
| 6823208286 | 1949 | Russia goes nuclear with aid of US communist spies the Rosenbergs who are executed | 36 | |
| 6823208287 | 1950-1953 | US loses more than 50,000 in the Korean War | 37 | |
| 6823208288 | 1957 | USSR launches Sputnik and the space race begins | 38 | |
| 6823208289 | 1961 | Bay of Pigs fiasco, October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, 1963 Russian trained sniper kills Pres. Kennedy | 39 | |
| 6823208290 | 1963 | Crick and Watson discover DNA as the code of life...further disproving evolution | 40 | |
| 6823208291 | 1964 | First Digital Computers and Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and escalation of Vietnam War | 41 | |
| 6823208292 | 1967 | ARPANET developed....first internet AND Israel retakes all of Jerusalem 1st time since AD70 | 42 | |
| 6823208293 | 1969 | (July) American Astronauts walk on the moon | 43 | |
| 6823208294 | 1991 | Soviet Union collapses, end of Cold War | 44 | |
| 6823208295 | 9-11-2001 | Muslim terrorists bring down twin towers of World Trade Center and hit the Pentagon | 45 | |
| 6823208296 | 2003 | Rover missions on Mars | 46 | |
| 6823208297 | 610 CE | Muhammad begins dictating the Koran, Hijra to Medina 622, dies in 632 having taken Middle East. | 47 | |
| 6823208298 | 700-1066 CE | Viking Age of ravaging the coast of Northern Europe and Russia. | 48 | |
| 6823208299 | 732 CE | Umayyad Muslims took North Africa, up through Spain, stopped by Charles Martel at Tours/Poitiers. | 49 | |
| 6823208300 | 750 CE | Abbasid Caliphate founded | 50 | |
| 6823208301 | 1040 CE | Gunpowder invented in China (Ottoman Empire 1st gunpowder empire. | 51 | |
| 6823208302 | 1066 CE | Norman invasion of England (rule over Anglo-Saxons) | 52 | |
| 6823208303 | 1095 CE | Pope Urban II calls for the 1st Crusade that takes and holds Jerusalem for 100 years | 53 | |
| 6823208304 | 1206 CE | Genghis Khan and the Mongols. Opens silk road all the way to Europe. | 54 | |
| 6823208305 | 1215 CE | King John of England signs the Magna Carta. | 55 | |
| 6823208306 | 1227 CE | Genghis Khan dies and Kublai Khan takes China, Golden Horde takes Russia. | 56 | |
| 6823208307 | 1258 CE | Ilkanate Mongols conquers Baghdad, the capital of Abbasid Caliphate. | 57 | |
| 6823208308 | 1271 CE | Marco Polo travels the silk road, | 58 | |
| 6823208309 | 1337 CE | Hundreds Years War begins between England and France (Joan of Arc) ends in 1453 | 59 | |
| 6823208310 | 1347-1349 CE | The Black Plague thought to have been brought from Asia to Europe by the Mongols, kills 1/3rd of Europe's population | 60 | |
| 6823208311 | 1754-1763 | French and Indian war (7 years war) | 61 | |
| 6823208312 | 1776-1781 | American war for independence | 62 | |
| 6823208313 | 1780 | James Watts steam engine begins the first industrial revolution | 63 | |
| 6823208314 | 1789 | United States constitution ratified | 64 | |
| 6823208315 | 1789 | french revolution begins | 65 | |
| 6823208316 | 1791 | Haitian revolution | 66 | |
| 6823208317 | 1793 | Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin | 67 | |
| 6823208318 | 1796 | Edward Jenner develops smallpox vaccine | 68 | |
| 6823208319 | 1803 | size of the United States doubles with President Jefferson's 15,000,000 Louisiana purchase from France | 69 | |
| 6823208320 | 1807 | Robert Fulton builds the first practical steamship the clermont | 70 | |
| 6823208321 | 1808 | United States outlaws importation of Slaves | 71 | |
| 6823208322 | 1821 | Mexico gains independence from Spain | 72 | |
| 6823208323 | 1836 | Texas gains independence from Mexico | 73 | |
| 6823208324 | 1837 | Samuel Morse invents telegraph | 74 | |
| 6823208325 | 1845 | Texas becomes 28th state 1846-1848 Mexican-american war america gains new mexico, Arizona Nevada California. | 75 | |
| 6823208326 | 1846 | Thomas Morton invents anesthesia | 76 | |
| 6823208327 | 1848 | Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels publish the communist manifesto | 77 | |
| 6823208328 | 1854 | Commodore Perry forces Japan to trade with the West | 78 | |
| 6823208329 | 1859 | Charles Darwin publishes on "the origin of species" disproved in 1863 by Louis Pasteur | 79 | |
| 6823208330 | 1861-1865 | civil war takes the lives of more than 600,000 young Americans | 80 | |
| 6823208331 | 1867 | first transcontinental railroad completed at promontory point near Ogden, Utah | 81 | |
| 6823208332 | 1879 | Thomas Edison invents first practical light bulb | 82 | |
| 6823208333 | 1884 | European Nations divided up Africa in the Berlin conference | 83 | |
| 6823208334 | 1898 | Spanish American war, United States got the Philippines and Guam in the Pacific, Puerto Rico in the gulf of mexico | 84 |