AP World History dates Flashcards
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13987766526 | 8000 BCE | Neolithic Revolution (beginning of agriculture) | 0 | |
13987766527 | 3000 BCE | Bronze Age (early River Valley Civilizations) | 1 | |
13987766528 | 6th Century BCE | foundation of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism/Life of Confucius, Buddha, Laozi | 2 | |
13987766529 | 5th Century BCE | Greek Golden Age of Philosophers | 3 | |
13987766530 | 323 BCE | Alexander the Great (that hair though!) | 4 | |
13987766531 | 221 BCE | Qin Dynasty Founded | 5 | |
13987766532 | 32 CE | Beginning of Christianity | 6 | |
13987766533 | 180 CE | Pax Romana begins | 7 | |
13987766534 | 220 CE | Han Dynasty Falls | 8 | |
13987766535 | 333 CE | Constantinople new capital of Roman Empire | 9 | |
13987766536 | 4th Century CE | Trans-Sahara trade routes established | 10 | |
13987766537 | 476 CE | Fall of Rome | 11 | |
13987766538 | 527 CE | Justinian's reign of Byzantine Empire | 12 | |
13987766539 | 622 CE | Founding of Islam | 13 | |
13987766540 | 732 CE | Battle of Tours (to end Muslims pushing into France) | 14 | |
13987766541 | 1054 | Great Schism in Christian Church (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox) | 15 | |
13987766542 | 1066 | Norman Conquest of England | 16 | |
13987766543 | 1095 | First Crusade | 17 | |
13987766544 | 1258 | Mongols sack Baghdad | 18 | |
13987766545 | 1271-1295 | Marco Polo's Travels | 19 | |
13987766546 | 1324 | Mansa Musa's pilgramage | 20 | |
13987766547 | 1325-1349 | Ibn Battuta's travels | 21 | |
13987766548 | 1347-1348 | Bubonic plague in Europe | 22 | |
13987766549 | 1433 | Ming navy ends | 23 | |
13987766550 | 1453 | Ottomans capture Constantinople | 24 | |
13987766551 | 1488 | Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope | 25 | |
13987766552 | 1492 | Columbus sails the ocean blue AND Reconquista completed | 26 | |
13987766553 | 1502 | First slaves from Africa arrive in the Americas | 27 | |
13987766554 | 1517 | Martin Luther's 95 theses | 28 | |
13987766555 | 1521 | Cortez conquers the Aztecs | 29 | |
13987766556 | 1533 | Pizarro conquers the Inca | 30 | |
13987766557 | 1588 | Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British | 31 | |
13987766558 | 1600 | Beginning of Tokugawa shogunate | 32 | |
13987766559 | 1607 | Jamestown founded in North America | 33 | |
13987766560 | 1689 | Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights | 34 | |
13987766561 | 1790 | Industrial Revolution | 35 | |
13987766562 | 1756-1763 | Seven Years' War/French and Indian War | 36 | |
13987766563 | 1776 | American Revolution AND Adam Smith writes Wealth of Nations | 37 | |
13987766564 | 1789 | French Revolution | 38 | |
13987766565 | 1804 | Haitian Independence | 39 | |
13987766566 | 1815 | Congress of Vienna | 40 | |
13987766567 | 1820s | Independence of Latin America | 41 | |
13987766568 | 1839 | Opium War between England and China | 42 | |
13987766569 | 1848 | Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels write "The Communist Manifesto" | 43 | |
13987766570 | 1853 | Commodore Matthew Perry opens Japan for trade | 44 | |
13987766571 | 1857 | Sepoy Mutiny | 45 | |
13987766572 | 1861 | Russian serfs emancipated | 46 | |
13987766573 | 1863 | Emancipation Proclamation in the US | 47 | |
13987766574 | 1885 | Berlin Conference (scramble for Africa) | 48 | |
13987766575 | 1898 | Spanish American War (US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, and Puerto Rico) | 49 | |
13987766576 | 1899 | Boer War (British put down rebellion by Boers in eastern South Africa) | 50 | |
13987766577 | 1905 | Russo-Japanese War | 51 | |
13987766578 | 1910-1920 | Mexican Revolution | 52 | |
13987766579 | 1911 | Chinese Revolution (end of the Qing dynasty) | 53 | |
13987766580 | 1914 | WWI begins | 54 | |
13987766581 | 1917 | Russian revolutions: Duma overthrows Czar Nicholas and Bolshevik Revolution | 55 | |
13987766582 | 1919 | Treaty of Versailles (to end WWI) | 56 | |
13987766583 | 1929 | Stock Market crash | 57 | |
13987766584 | 1935 | Italian invasion of Ethiopia | 58 | |
13987766585 | 1931 | Japanese invasion of Manchuria | 59 | |
13987766586 | 1939 | Germany invades Poland (beginning WWII in Europe) | 60 | |
13987766587 | 1941 | Attack on Pearl Harbor and Singapore / U.S. entry into WWII | 61 | |
13987766588 | 1945 | WWII ends | 62 | |
13987766589 | 1947 | India partitioned and wins independence from Britain | 63 | |
13987766590 | 1948 | state of Israel created | 64 | |
13987766591 | 1949 | Chinese Communist Party takes control of China | 65 | |
13987766592 | 1950-1953 | Korean War | 66 | |
13987766593 | 1956 | De-Stalinization begins AND Suez Canal is nationalized in Egypt | 67 | |
13987766594 | 1959 | Cuban Revolution | 68 | |
13987766595 | 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis | 69 | |
13987766596 | 1967 | 6-Day War between Israel and Arab nations | 70 | |
13987766597 | 1966-1976 | Chinese Cultural Revolution | 71 | |
13987766598 | 1979 | Iranian Revolution | 72 | |
13987766599 | 1989 | Tiananmen Square protests/Fall of Berlin Wall | 73 | |
13987766600 | 1991 | Fall of USSR/ 1st Gulf War | 74 |