AP World History Timeline 2 Flashcards

10163825970	2380 BCE	Urukagina, author of one of the first codes of laws, reigns in Lagash	0
10163825971	1760 BCE	Hammurabi's code is published	1
10163825972	17th century BCE	Zarathustra, the founder of Zoroastrianism, lives	2
10163825973	1812 BCE	Abraham, the father of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, is born	3
10163825974	1235 BCE	Sundiata Kieta becomes the King of Mali	4
10163825975	1200 BCE	Vyasa writes the Hindu Vedas	5
10163825976	900-800 BCE	Homer writes the Iliad and the Odyssey	6
10163825977	594 BCE	Solon is entrusted with writing a new Athenian constitution	7
10163825978	563 BCE	Siddhartha (Buddha) is born	8
10163825979	554 BCE	Confucius is born	9
10163825980	550 BCE	Lao-Tze, founder of Taoism, is born	10
10163825981	550 BCE	Cyrus overcomes the Medians in the Persians' first victory	11
10163825982	434 BCE	Peloponnesian War begins with Pericles as a leading Athenian statesman	12
10163825983	360 BCE	Plato publishes The Republic	13
10163825984	335 BCE	Aristotle builds his school of philosophy in Athens	14
10163825985	329 BCE	Alexander the Great defeats the Achaemenid Persian Empire	15
10163825986	320 BCE	Chandragupta found the Maurya Empire	16
10163825987	273 BCE	Reign of Ashoka begins in India	17
10163825988	210 BCE	Shi Huangdi, 1st emperor of China, founds the Qin dynasty	18
10163825989	206 BCE-195 BCE	Liu Bang, the first emperor of the Han dynasty, reigns	19
10163825990	63 BCE	Cicero is elected Consul	20
10163825991	49 BCE	Julius Caesar becomes sole leader of Rome and dissolves the Roman Republic	21
10163825992	27 BCE	Octavian becomes the first Roman emperor	22
10163825993	5 BCE	Jesus is born	23
10163825994	36 AD	Paul's conversion to Christianity	24
10163825995	272 AD	Constantine, who would go on to be Roman emperor	25
10163825996	496 AD	Clovis, King of the Franks, converts to Christianity	26
10163825997	570 AD	Justinian becomes the Byzantine Emperor	27
10163825998	604 AD	Prince Shotoku publishes the Seventeen Article Constitution in Japan	28
10163825999	622 AD	Muhammad leads the Hegira	29
10163826000	732 AD	Charles Martel leads the Franks to defeat the Moors at the Battle of Tours	30
10163826001	800 AD	Charlemagne is crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor	31
10163826002	1066 AD	William the Conqueror begins his reign in England	32
10163826003	1095 AD	Pope Urban II calls for crusades to take back the holy land	33
10163826004	1187 AD	Saladin takes back Jerusalem for the Muslims during the Crusades	34
10163826005	1206 AD	At the age of 42, Temujin takes the title Genghis Khan, which means "Universal Ruler"	35
10163826006	1270 AD	Marco Polo departs on his voyage to China	36
10163826007	1324 AD	Mansa Musa sets out of his famous pilgrimage to Mecca	37
10163826008	1368 AD	Hongwu founds the Ming Dynasty	38
10163826009	1405 AD	First voyage of Chinese explorer Zheng He	39
10163826010	1420 AD	Portuguese explorers begin looking around	40
10163826011	1431 AD	Joan of Arc is burned at the stake at age 19	41
10163826012	1438 AD	Pachacuti, the founder of the Incan Empire, is born	42
10163826013	1439 AD	Johann Gutenberg invents the printing press	43
10163826014	1448 AD	Moctezuma I becomes the fifth Aztec emperor	44
10163826015	1492 AD	Christopher Columbus "discovers" the "new world"	45
10163826016	1497 AD	John Cabot becomes the first explorer to "discover" North America	46
10163826017	1503 AD	Leonardo da Vinci is commissioned to paint the Mona Lisa	47
10163826018	1509 AD	Henry VIII becomes King of England	48
10163826019	1519 AD	Martin Luther posts the 95 Theses	49
10163826020	1520 AD	Suleyman the Magnificent becomes Sultan	50
10163826021	1534 AD	Cartier lands in Canada	51
10163826022	1536 AD	John Calvin publishes the Institutes of Christian Religion	52
10163826023	1542 AD	Akbar the Great, who would become an Indian ruler, was born	53
10163826024	1558 AD	Queen Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England	54
10163826025	1603 AD	The reunification of Japan under Tokugawa Ieyasu	55
10163826026	1616 AD	Galileo begins having difficulties with the church	56
10163826027	1637 AD	Rene Descartes, the father of modern philosophy, publishes his first works	57
10163826028	1648 AD	Taj Mahal is completed in India under the direction of Shah Jahan	58
10163826029	1652 AD	Jan van Riebeck and other Dutch settlers found Capetown	59
10163826030	1653 AD	Oliver Cromwell becomes the leader of England after the English Civil War	60
10163826031	1654 AD	Louis XIV is crowned King of France	61
10163826032	1682 AD	Peter the Great becomes Czar of Russia	62
10163826033	1687 AD	Newton publishes the Principia	63
10163826034	1689 AD	John Locke publishes the Two Treatises of Government	64
10163826035	1762 AD	Catherine the Great becomes ruler of Russia	65
10163826036	1764 AD	Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny and kicks off the Industrial Revolution	66
10163826037	1782 AD	Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of Women's Rights	67
10163826038	1793 AD	Marie Antoinette is guillotined during the French Revolution	68
10163826039	1804 AD	Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France	69
10163826040	1812 AD	Shaka Zulu creates the Zulu Empire	70
10163826041	1819 AD	Simon Bolivar founds Gran Colombia after liberating South America from Spain	71
10163826042	1842 AD	King Leopold I tries and fails to pass a child labor law in Belgium	72
10163826043	1848 AD	Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto	73
10163826044	1859 AD	Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species	74
10163826045	1861 AD	Victor Emmanuel II becomes the first king of a united Italy	75
10163826046	1871 AD	Otto van Bismarck oversees the reunification of Germany	76
10163826047	1876 AD	Leo Tolstoy writes Anna Karenina	77
10163826048	1877 AD	Thomas Edison invents the phonograph	78
10163826049	1889 AD	Cecil Rhodes gets a license from the British government to rule southern Africa	79
10163826050	1907 AD	Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, is born	80
10163826051	1914 AD	Francis Ferdinand is assassinated, starting World War I	81
10163826052	1917 AD	V.I. Lenin seizes control of Russia during the Russian Revolution	82
10163826053	1921 AD	Albert Einstein receives the Nobel Prize for physics	83
10163826054	1922 AD	Joseph Stalin becomes the leader of the USSR after Lenin's death	84
10163826055	1930 AD	Gandhi leads the Salt March in India	85
10163826056	1932 AD	Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany	86
10163826057	1946 AD	Ho Chi Minh becomes prime minister/president of North Vietnam	87
10163826058	1946 AD	Jawarhal Nehru is elected the first president of post-colonial India	88
10163826059	1949 AD	Mao Tse-tung becomes the chairman of the People's Republic of China	89
10163826060	1953 AD	Nikita Kruschev comes to power in the Soviet Union	90
10163826061	1959 AD	Fidel Castro becomes leader of Cuba	91
10163826062	1963 AD	Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers the "I Have a Dream" speech during the march to Washington	92
10163826063	1990 AD	Mikhail Gorbachev wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in ending the Cold War	93
10163826064	1994 AD	Former prisoner Nelson Mandela is elected president of South Africa	94