Important Dates for Summative #2

1242

Mongol invasion of Kylvan Rus

1258

Mongol invasion of Abbasid Dynasty

1271

Mongol invasion of Song Dynasty

1346

Black Death rages across Europe & Eurasia

1368

Ming Dynasty conures Yuan Dynasty

1452-1493

Vatican passes the series of ‘Doctrine of Discovery’ policies

1453

Ottoman Conquest of Byzantine Empire

1490

Spanish Reconquista ends after 700 years

1492

First encounter with Arawak & Spanish

1492-1775

First wave of Globalization in the form of European Imperialism in the North & South America

1517

Protestant Reformation disrupts religious rule in Europe.

1526

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade begins in South America + Mughal Empire begins on the Indian subcontinent

1543

Europe Scientific Revolution begins

1550

Russian Empire expands eastward into Siberia

1619

Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade begins in North America

1644

Ming Dynasty collapses as the Qing Dynasty begins

1666

Kongo Civil War weakens African resistance to Europe

1689

Glorious Revolution spurs European Enlightenment

1750-1910’s

The Industrial Revolution begins in England and spreads throughout Europe and North America

1776-1821

First Wave of Revolution in the Age of Revolution leaves North & South America of mostly independent of European colonial rule (& slavery by 1888)

1838

British invasion of China in Opium Wars

1850

Taiping Rebellion intensifies Qing Dynasty decline

1857

British invasion of India in Sepoy Indian Rebellion

1858

On Origin of Species opening gates to ‘Social Darwinism’

1868

Japan begins era of ‘Western Modernization’ in the form of the Meiji Restoration

1884

Berlin Conference begins devastating era of European Imperialism in Africa

1890

‘Manifest Destiny’ ends as the USA fully takes over the Pacific West Coast

1895

The 1st Sino-Japanese War begins era of Japanese imperialism in China

1900

The failed Boxer Rebellion intensifies European Imperialism in China

1905

Russo-Japanese War begins era of Japanese Imperialism in Korea

1911

The Xinhai Revolution brings end to Qing Dynasty and dynastic rule in China

1914

The First World War erupts and continues across globes until 1918 with the USA emerging as a superpower

1917

The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia begins as world’s first communist revolution

1919

The Treaty of Versailles formally ends the First World War shortly after the British-led Amritsar Massacre reignites the independence movement in India.

1927

The Shanghai Massacre Sows the Seeds for a civil war in China Between the CNP and CCP

1929

The Great Depression begins causing dramatic worldwide shifts in global influence structures and socio-economic ideologies

1933

Stalin’s Soviet-Russian empire begins the Holodomor against the Ukrainian Soviet-subjects as Adolf Hitler is elected Chancellor of Germany

1937+1939

The Second World War begins in East Asia with the Japanese invasion of Nanking followed by the outbreak of war in Europe with the Nazi-German invasion of Poland.

1941-1945

Six million European Jews are murdered in the Holocaust during the course of the Second World War which ends with the U.S. Atomic Bomb droppings on Japan

1946

The Cold War begins between the Soviet Union & the United States

1947-1989

India’s independence from Britain marks the start of AGE OF DECOLONIZATION from European empires & influence in Africa & Asia

1948

The founding of Israel on the once - British- occupied Palestine begins a new era of enduring ethnic conflict

1950

The Chinese Communist Revolution triumphs in victory with the Chinese Nationalist Party fleeing to Taiwan

1950-1991

The Korean War marks a new era of proxy wars of the Cold War between the U.S. and S.U. throughout Latin America, Asia and Africa until the full collapse of Russia’s Soviet Union

1960’s

The Green Revolution begins

1979

The Islamic Revolutions in Iran begins

1980’s

The Digital Revolution begins slowly with the advent of the internet

2001

The 9/11 Terrorist Attacks set a new era of war on terror