AP World History dates Flashcards

14020625598	8000 BCE	Neolithic Revolution (beginning of agriculture)	0
14020625599	3000 BCE	Bronze Age (early River Valley Civilizations)	1
14020625600	6th Century BCE	foundation of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism/Life of Confucius, Buddha, Laozi	2
14020625601	5th Century BCE	Greek Golden Age of Philosophers	3
14020625602	323 BCE	Alexander the Great (that hair though!)	4
14020625603	221 BCE	Qin Dynasty Founded	5
14020625604	32 CE	Beginning of Christianity	6
14020625605	180 CE	Pax Romana begins	7
14020625606	220 CE	Han Dynasty Falls	8
14020625607	333 CE	Constantinople new capital of Roman Empire	9
14020625608	4th Century CE	Trans-Sahara trade routes established	10
14020625609	476 CE	Fall of Rome	11
14020625610	527 CE	Justinian's reign of Byzantine Empire	12
14020625611	622 CE	Founding of Islam	13
14020625612	732 CE	Battle of Tours (to end Muslims pushing into France)	14
14020625613	1054	Great Schism in Christian Church (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox)	15
14020625614	1066	Norman Conquest of England	16
14020625615	1095	First Crusade	17
14020625616	1258	Mongols sack Baghdad	18
14020625617	1271-1295	Marco Polo's Travels	19
14020625618	1324	Mansa Musa's pilgramage	20
14020625619	1325-1349	Ibn Battuta's travels	21
14020625620	1347-1348	Bubonic plague in Europe	22
14020625621	1433	Ming navy ends	23
14020625622	1453	Ottomans capture Constantinople	24
14020625623	1488	Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope	25
14020625624	1492	Columbus sails the ocean blue AND Reconquista completed	26
14020625625	1502	First slaves from Africa arrive in the Americas	27
14020625626	1517	Martin Luther's 95 theses	28
14020625627	1521	Cortez conquers the Aztecs	29
14020625628	1533	Pizarro conquers the Inca	30
14020625629	1588	Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British	31
14020625630	1600	Beginning of Tokugawa shogunate	32
14020625631	1607	Jamestown founded in North America	33
14020625632	1689	Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights	34
14020625633	1790	Industrial Revolution	35
14020625634	1756-1763	Seven Years' War/French and Indian War	36
14020625635	1776	American Revolution AND Adam Smith writes Wealth of Nations	37
14020625636	1789	French Revolution	38
14020625637	1804	Haitian Independence	39
14020625638	1815	Congress of Vienna	40
14020625639	1820s	Independence of Latin America	41
14020625640	1839	Opium War between England and China	42
14020625641	1848	Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels write "The Communist Manifesto"	43
14020625642	1853	Commodore Matthew Perry opens Japan for trade	44
14020625643	1857	Sepoy Mutiny	45
14020625644	1861	Russian serfs emancipated	46
14020625645	1863	Emancipation Proclamation in the US	47
14020625646	1885	Berlin Conference (scramble for Africa)	48
14020625647	1898	Spanish American War (US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, and Puerto Rico)	49
14020625648	1899	Boer War (British put down rebellion by Boers in eastern South Africa)	50
14020625649	1905	Russo-Japanese War	51
14020625650	1910-1920	Mexican Revolution	52
14020625651	1911	Chinese Revolution (end of the Qing dynasty)	53
14020625652	1914	WWI begins	54
14020625653	1917	Russian revolutions: Duma overthrows Czar Nicholas and Bolshevik Revolution	55
14020625654	1919	Treaty of Versailles (to end WWI)	56
14020625655	1929	Stock Market crash	57
14020625656	1935	Italian invasion of Ethiopia	58
14020625657	1931	Japanese invasion of Manchuria	59
14020625658	1939	Germany invades Poland (beginning WWII in Europe)	60
14020625659	1941	Attack on Pearl Harbor and Singapore / U.S. entry into WWII	61
14020625660	1945	WWII ends	62
14020625661	1947	India partitioned and wins independence from Britain	63
14020625662	1948	state of Israel created	64
14020625663	1949	Chinese Communist Party takes control of China	65
14020625664	1950-1953	Korean War	66
14020625665	1956	De-Stalinization begins AND Suez Canal is nationalized in Egypt	67
14020625666	1959	Cuban Revolution	68
14020625667	1962	Cuban Missile Crisis	69
14020625668	1967	6-Day War between Israel and Arab nations	70
14020625669	1966-1976	Chinese Cultural Revolution	71
14020625670	1979	Iranian Revolution	72
14020625671	1989	Tiananmen Square protests/Fall of Berlin Wall	73
14020625672	1991	Fall of USSR/ 1st Gulf War	74