AP World - Dates to Know for AP Exam Flashcards
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| 13779139298 | agriculture first developed in Eurasia | circa 8000 BCE | 0 | |
| 13779148413 | Iron Age | 1300 BCE | 1 | |
| 13779153441 | Han Dynasty holds power in China | 206 BCE - 220 CE | 2 | |
| 13779162331 | Roman Emperor Constantine converts to Christianity | 312 | 3 | |
| 13779173821 | Western Roman Empire "falls" | 476 | 4 | |
| 13779177243 | founding of Islam | 622 | 5 | |
| 13779182433 | printing invented in China | circa 730 | 6 | |
| 13779190690 | Battle of Tours | 732 | 7 | |
| 13779193993 | First Crusade | 1095 | 8 | |
| 13779199407 | Mongols sack Baghdad ending the Abbasid Caliphate | 1258 | 9 | |
| 13779203512 | Zheng He's Seven Voyages | 1405-1433 | 10 | |
| 13779212665 | Ottomans capture Constantinople | 1453 | 11 | |
| 13779222986 | printing press invented in Europe by Johann Gutenberg | 1450s | 12 | |
| 13779228554 | Christopher Columbus sails across Atlantic Ocean | 1492 | 13 | |
| 13779234254 | discovery of silver at Potosi | 1545 | 14 | |
| 13779238228 | Battle of Lepanto | 1571 | 15 | |
| 13779248197 | Battle of Sekigahara - marks the beginning of Tokugawa Shogunate | 1600 | 16 | |
| 13779251026 | Thirty Years War | 1618-1648 | 17 | |
| 13779257116 | start of Qing Dynasty | 1644 | 18 | |
| 13779260077 | invention of spinning jenny | 1767 | 19 | |
| 13779268025 | Declaration of Independence begins American Revolution | 1776 | 20 | |
| 13779272672 | Tanzimat Reforms are implemented in Ottoman Empire | 1839-1878 | 21 | |
| 13779394684 | Commodore Perry "opens" Japan | 1853 | 22 | |
| 13779394686 | Sepoy Mutiny | 1857 | 23 | |
| 13779490236 | Suez Canal opens | 1869 | 24 | |
| 13779495091 | Berlin Conference marks the beginning of the "Scramble for Africa" | 1885 | 25 | |
| 13779495092 | Battle of Adwa | 1896 | 26 | |
| 13779497544 | Russo-Japanese War | 1904-1905 | 27 | |
| 13779500911 | World War 1 | 1914-1918 | 28 | |
| 13779532179 | Russian Revolution | 1917 | 29 | |
| 13779532180 | World War 2 | 1939-1945 | 30 | |
| 13779545058 | Manhattan Project and bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | 1945 | 31 | |
| 13779545059 | Partitioning of India and Pakistan | 1947 | 32 | |
| 13779548967 | Birth of Israel | 1948 | 33 | |
| 13779553448 | Chinese Communist Revolution | 1949 | 34 | |
| 13779559043 | Sputnik launched by USSR | 1957 | 35 | |
| 13779559044 | Iranian Revolution | 1979 | 36 | |
| 13779566506 | Tiananmen Square Massacre | 1989 | 37 | |
| 13779566507 | USSR disbands | 1991 | 38 | |
| 13779570222 | 9/11 attacks | 2001 | 39 |