AP World History Dates Flashcards

13737949740	8000 BCE	Beginning of agriculture	0
13737952162	3000 BCE	Beginnings of Bronze Age - early civilizations	1
13737959283	1300 BCE	Iron Age	2
13737961136	6th century BCE	Life of Buddha, Confucius, and Lao Tsu	3
13737966413	5th century BCE	Greek Golden Age - philosophers	4
13737972554	323 BCE	Alexander the Great	5
13737973833	221 BCE	Qin unified China	6
13737997343	32 CE	Beginnings of Christianity	7
13738002850	180 CE	End of Pax Romana	8
13738004821	220 CE	End of Han Dynasty	9
13738007596	333 CE	Roman capital moved to Constantinople	10
13738016820	4th century CE	Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes	11
13738020557	476 CE	Fall of Rome	12
13738023396	527 CE	Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire	13
13738030995	622 CE	Founding of Islam	14
13738033127	732 CE	Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France)	15
13738035231	1054 CE	Great Schism in Christian Church (Roman Catholic & Eastern Orthodox)	16
13738039085	1066 CE	Norman conquest of England	17
13738047033	1071 CE	Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantine Empire)	18
13738048827	1095 CE	1st Crusade	19
13738056388	1258 CE	Mongols sack Baghdad	20
13738059674	1271-1295	Travels of Marco Polo	21
13738075857	1324 CE	Mansa Musa's pilgrimage	22
13738077383	1325-1349	Travels of Ibn Battuta	23
13738080825	1347-1348 CE	Bubonic plague in Europe	24
13738083830	1433 CE	end of Zheng He's voyages/Rise of Ottomans	25
13738151329	1453 CE	Ottomans capture Constantinople	26
13738155490	1488 CE	Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope	27
13738158837	1492 CE	Columbus sailed the ocean blue/ Reconquista of Spain	28
13738161486	1502 CE	First slaves to Americas	29
13738167959	1517 CE	Martin Luther/95 theses	30
13738169506	1521 CE	Cortez conquered the Aztecs	31
13738170536	1533 CE	Pizarro toppled the Inca	32
13738175667	1571 CE	Battle of Lepanto (naval defeat of Ottomans)	33
13738180702	1588 CE	Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British	34
13738183501	1600 CE	Battle of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa	35
13738191757	1607 CE	Founding of Jamestown	36
13738193976	1618-1648	30 years war	37
13738209370	1683 CE	Unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna	38
13738210811	1689 CE	Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights	39
13738213627	1756-1763	7 years war/French and Indian War	40
13738216016	1776 CE	American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations	41
13738228644	1789 CE	French Revolution	42
13738232284	1804 CE	Haitian independence	43
13738234304	1815 CE	Congress of Vienna	44
13738238729	1820s	Independence in Latin America	45
13738240347	1839 CE	First Opium War in China	46
13738248441	1848 CE	European revolutions/Marx & Engles write Communist Manifesto	47
13738251794	1853 CE	Commodore Perry opens Japan	48
13738253009	1857 CE	Sepoy Mutiny	49
13738256305	1861 CE	end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification	50
13738257988	1863 CE	Emancipation Proclamation in US	51
13738263887	1871 CE	German unification	52
13738265059	1885 CE	Berlin Conference - division of Africa	53
13738266349	1898 CE	Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico	54
13738269681	1899 CE	Boer War - British in control of South Africa	55
13738276895	1905 CE	Russo-Japanese War	56
13738280513	1910-1920 CE	Mexican Revolution	57
13738282553	1911 CE	Chinese Revolution	58
13738287113	1914-1918	World War I	59
13738288849	1917 CE	Russian Revolution	60
13738291244	1919 CE	Treaty of Versailles - end of WWI	61
13738294560	1929 CE	stock market crash	62
13738297040	1931 CE	Japanese invasion of Manchuria	63
13738304708	1935 CE	Italian invasion of Ethiopia	64
13738325424	1939 CE	German blitzkrieg in Poland	65
13738328190	1941 CE	Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII	66
13738336586	1945 CE	End of WWII	67
13738339479	1947 CE	Independence and partition of India	68
13738342420	1948 CE	Birth of Israel	69
13738344621	1949 CE	Chinese Communist Revolution	70
13738350653	1950-1953 CE	Korean War	71
13738352470	1954 CE	Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu	72
13738355207	1956 CE	de-Stalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal	73
13738358844	1959 CE	Cuban Revolution	74
13738360404	1962 CE	Cuban Missile Crisis	75
13738365912	1967 CE	6-day war/Chinese Cultural Revolution	76
13738367676	1973 CE	Yom Kippur War	77
13738378817	1979 CE	Iranian Revolution	78
13738381501	1987 CE	1st Palestinian Intifada	79
13738385656	1989 CE	Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin Wall	80
13738388770	1991 CE	Fall of USSR/1st Gulf War	81
13738390376	1994 CE	genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in South Africa	82
13738391425	2001 CE	9/11 Attacks on U.S.	83