AP World History dates Flashcards

14029847361	8000 BCE	Neolithic Revolution (beginning of agriculture)	0
14029847362	3000 BCE	Bronze Age (early River Valley Civilizations)	1
14029847363	6th Century BCE	foundation of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism/Life of Confucius, Buddha, Laozi	2
14029847364	5th Century BCE	Greek Golden Age of Philosophers	3
14029847365	323 BCE	Alexander the Great (that hair though!)	4
14029847366	221 BCE	Qin Dynasty Founded	5
14029847367	32 CE	Beginning of Christianity	6
14029847368	180 CE	Pax Romana begins	7
14029847369	220 CE	Han Dynasty Falls	8
14029847370	333 CE	Constantinople new capital of Roman Empire	9
14029847371	4th Century CE	Trans-Sahara trade routes established	10
14029847372	476 CE	Fall of Rome	11
14029847373	527 CE	Justinian's reign of Byzantine Empire	12
14029847374	622 CE	Founding of Islam	13
14029847375	732 CE	Battle of Tours (to end Muslims pushing into France)	14
14029847376	1054	Great Schism in Christian Church (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox)	15
14029847377	1066	Norman Conquest of England	16
14029847378	1095	First Crusade	17
14029847379	1258	Mongols sack Baghdad	18
14029847380	1271-1295	Marco Polo's Travels	19
14029847381	1324	Mansa Musa's pilgramage	20
14029847382	1325-1349	Ibn Battuta's travels	21
14029847383	1347-1348	Bubonic plague in Europe	22
14029847384	1433	Ming navy ends	23
14029847385	1453	Ottomans capture Constantinople	24
14029847386	1488	Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope	25
14029847387	1492	Columbus sails the ocean blue AND Reconquista completed	26
14029847388	1502	First slaves from Africa arrive in the Americas	27
14029847389	1517	Martin Luther's 95 theses	28
14029847390	1521	Cortez conquers the Aztecs	29
14029847391	1533	Pizarro conquers the Inca	30
14029847392	1588	Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British	31
14029847393	1600	Beginning of Tokugawa shogunate	32
14029847394	1607	Jamestown founded in North America	33
14029847395	1689	Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights	34
14029847396	1790	Industrial Revolution	35
14029847397	1756-1763	Seven Years' War/French and Indian War	36
14029847398	1776	American Revolution AND Adam Smith writes Wealth of Nations	37
14029847399	1789	French Revolution	38
14029847400	1804	Haitian Independence	39
14029847401	1815	Congress of Vienna	40
14029847402	1820s	Independence of Latin America	41
14029847403	1839	Opium War between England and China	42
14029847404	1848	Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels write "The Communist Manifesto"	43
14029847405	1853	Commodore Matthew Perry opens Japan for trade	44
14029847406	1857	Sepoy Mutiny	45
14029847407	1861	Russian serfs emancipated	46
14029847408	1863	Emancipation Proclamation in the US	47
14029847409	1885	Berlin Conference (scramble for Africa)	48
14029847410	1898	Spanish American War (US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, and Puerto Rico)	49
14029847411	1899	Boer War (British put down rebellion by Boers in eastern South Africa)	50
14029847412	1905	Russo-Japanese War	51
14029847413	1910-1920	Mexican Revolution	52
14029847414	1911	Chinese Revolution (end of the Qing dynasty)	53
14029847415	1914	WWI begins	54
14029847416	1917	Russian revolutions: Duma overthrows Czar Nicholas and Bolshevik Revolution	55
14029847417	1919	Treaty of Versailles (to end WWI)	56
14029847418	1929	Stock Market crash	57
14029847419	1935	Italian invasion of Ethiopia	58
14029847420	1931	Japanese invasion of Manchuria	59
14029847421	1939	Germany invades Poland (beginning WWII in Europe)	60
14029847422	1941	Attack on Pearl Harbor and Singapore / U.S. entry into WWII	61
14029847423	1945	WWII ends	62
14029847424	1947	India partitioned and wins independence from Britain	63
14029847425	1948	state of Israel created	64
14029847426	1949	Chinese Communist Party takes control of China	65
14029847427	1950-1953	Korean War	66
14029847428	1956	De-Stalinization begins AND Suez Canal is nationalized in Egypt	67
14029847429	1959	Cuban Revolution	68
14029847430	1962	Cuban Missile Crisis	69
14029847431	1967	6-Day War between Israel and Arab nations	70
14029847432	1966-1976	Chinese Cultural Revolution	71
14029847433	1979	Iranian Revolution	72
14029847434	1989	Tiananmen Square protests/Fall of Berlin Wall	73
14029847435	1991	Fall of USSR/ 1st Gulf War	74