AP World History Must Know Dates Timeline To 600 B.C.E. 8000 B.C.E. - Beginnings of agriculture 3000 B.C.E. - Beginnings of Bronze Age - early civ’s 18th C B.C.E.-Hammurabi’s Code 1500 B.C.E.-Early alphabetic script 1300 B.C.E. - Iron Age 10th-7th C B.C.E. Assyrian Empire 600 B.C.E. - 600 CE 6th century B.C.E. - life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu(beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism,Taosim) 5th C B.C.E. - Greek Golden Age - philosophers. 323 B.C.E. - Alexander the Great 221 B.C.E. - Qin unified China 32 C.E. - Beginnings of Christianity 180 C.E. - end of Pax Romana 220 C.E. - end of Han Dynasty 333 - Roman capital moved to Constantinople 4th C - Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes 476 - Fall of Rome 527 - Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire 600-1450 632 - Rise of Islam 732 - Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France) 1054 - 1st Schism in Christian Church 1066 - Norman conquest of England 1071 - Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byz) 1095 - 1st Crusade 1258 - Mongols sack Baghdad 1271-1295 - Marco Polo travels 1324 - Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage 1325-1349 - travels of Ibn Battuta 1347-1348 - Bubonic plague in Europe 1433 - end of Zheng He’s voyages/Rise of Ottomans 1450-1750 1453 - Ottomans capture Constantinople 1488 - Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope 1492 - Columbus sailed the ocean blue/ Reconquista of Spain 1502 - Slaves to Americas 1517 - Martin Luther/95 theses 1521- Cortez conquered the Aztecs 1533- Pizarro toppled the Inca 1571 - Battle of Lepanto, (naval defeat of Ottomans) 1588 - defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British 1600 - Battle of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa 1607 - foundation of Jamestown 1618-1648 - 30 years war 1683- unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna 1689 - Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights 1750-1900 Industrial Revolution 1756-1763 -7 years war/French and Indian War 1776 - American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations 1789 - French Revolution 1804 - Haitian independence 1815 - Congress of Vienna 1820s- Independence in Latin America 1839 - 1st opium war in China 1848 - European revolutions/Marx & Engles write Communist Manifesto 1853- Commodore Perry opens Japan 1857- Sepoy Mutiny 1861- end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification 1863 - Emancipation Proclamation in US 1871- German unification 1885 - Berlin Conference - division of Africa 1898 - Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico 1899 - Boer War - British in control of South Africa 1900-present 1905 - Russo-Japanese war 1910 -1920 - Mexican Revolution 1911- Chinese Revolution 1914 - WWI 1917 - Russian Revolution 1919 - Treaty of Versailles - end of WWI 1929 - stock market crash 1931 - Japanese invasion of Manchuria 1935 - Italian invasion of Ethiopia 1939 - German blitzkrieg in Poland 1941 - Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII 1945 - end of WWII 1947 - independence & partition of India 1948 - birth of Israel 1949 - Chinese Communist Revolution 1950-1953 - Korean War 1954 - Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu 1956 - de-Stalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal 1959 - Cuban Revolution 1962 - Cuban missile crisis 1967 - 6-day war/Chinese Cultural Revolution 1973 - Yom Kippur war 1979 - Iranian Revolution 1987 - 1st Palestinian Intifada 1989 - Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin Wall 1991 - fall of USSR/1st Gulf war 1994 - genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S. Africa 2001 - 9/11 Attacks

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