AP World History dates Flashcards

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