Timeline Quiz - WHAP

1206

Delhi sultanate

1258

fall of Baghdad/Abbasid

1260

Mamluks defeat Mongols at Ain Jalut

1290s

spread of Islam to SE Asia

1324

Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage

1204

4th Crusade

1241

Mongols (Tartars) capture RUssia

1453

Constantinople sacked by the Ottomans; empire ends

1215

Magna Carta

1300-1450-1600

Renaissance

1337-1453

Hundred Years’ War

1348

Black Death

1325

Aztecs establish in central Mexico

1350

Incas establish in Cuzco

960-1279

Song dynasty

1185

Feudal Japan begins

1279-1368

Mongol rule (Yuan dynasty) in China

1368-1644

Ming Dynasty

1433

end of Chinese expeditions

13th century

Mongol conquests

1260

Mamluk defeat of Mongols at Ain Jalut

mid-14th century

spread of Black Death

1405

Death of Timur Lang; last great nomadic challenge ends

1453

Ottoman conquest of Constantinople

1480

Moscow freed from Tartar control

1492

Columbus makes landfall in the Bahamas

1498

Vasco de Gama reaches India

1500s

Commercial Revolution;

peak of Ottoman (Sulieman), Safavid (Shah Abbas), and Mughal Empires (Akbar)

1517

Protestant Reformation

1519-1522

Cortes conquers Aztecs

1532

Pizarro conquers Incas

1533

Ivan the Terrible reduces boyar power and expands Russia

1565

Spanish takeover the Philippines

1570s

silver shipments from Mexico to Manila

1571

Ottoman naval defeat at Lepanto

1600s

Scientific Revolution

1600

British East India Company established

1602

Dutch East India Company established

1603

Tokugawa establishes shpogunate

Sakoku, 1630s

Tokugawa’s policy of isolation

1644

Manchu Qing dynasty rules China

1649

subordination of serfs in Russia

1689-1725

Peter the Great reigns

1689

westernization in Russia

1700s

Rise of Asante and Dahomey

1700s

peak of the trans-Atlantic slave trade

1700s

Enlightenment

1707

death of Aurangzeb

1707

beginning of Mughal imperial breakdown

1740s

Wahhabi movement begins in Arabia

1760s

Industrial Revolution begins (spinning jenny, water frames, steam engine)

1860s

2nd Industrial Revolution (Bessemer steel, petrochemicals, electricity, assembly line)

1776

American Revolution

1789

French Revolution

1798

Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt

1805

Muhammad Ali Pasha rules Egypt

1820s

Latin American independence

1839-19842; 1856-60

Opium War

1850-64

Taiping Rebellion

1900

Boxer Rebellion

1839-1876

Tanzimat reforms

1853

Opening of Japan

1868

Meiji Reforms

1854

Crimean War

1861

emancipation of serfs in Russia

1870s

German & Italians unification

1870s

Latin American export boom

1870s

Age of High imperialism

1895

Sino-Japanese relations

1905

Russo-Japanese war

1898

Spanish-American war

1910-1920

Mexican revolution

1911

Chinese revolution (end of Qing)

1914-1918

WWI

1919

Treaty of Versailles

1917

Russian revolution

1918

Spanish flu

1929-1930s

Great Depression

1931-1945

WWII

1931

invasion of Manchuria

1937

China/Rape of Nanking

1939

invasion of Poland

1947

Truman Doctrine

1947

Cold War begins

1947

independence & partition of India

1950-1953

Korean War

1950-1970

Green Revolution; spread of agricultural technologies

1954

Vietnam expels France

1954-1975

US involvement gradually escalate; fall of Saigon

1957

Ghana becomes the 1st Sub-Saharan African country to gain independence

1958

Great Leap Forward

1949

Chinese Communist revolution

1959

Cuban revolution

1968

global protests & uprisings (Prague Spring; Soviets inv

1979-1989

Soviet war in Afghanistan 19

1979

Iranian revolution & hostage crisis

1985

Berlin Wall falls

1991

Soviet Union collapses & disintegrates

2001

9/11 terrorist attacks by al-Qaeda against the US

2001-2021

US war in Afghanistan