2024-2025 AP World History Cumulative MKD

1923

Fall of Ottoman Empire / Turkey established

1949

Chinese Communist Revolution

1914

Beginning of WWI

1915/1917

Armenian Genocide

1917

Russian Revolution

1919

Mandate System Established by the League of Nations

1939

Beginning of WWII

1941/1945

Holocaust

1945

First Atomic Bomb / start of Cold War

1947

Partition of India

1955

Sukarno Established the Non-Aligned Movement

1955

Polio Vaccine Invented

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

1991

Breakup of the USSR

1994

Fall of Apartheid in South Africa

1995

World Trade Organization Established

1453

Fall of Constantinople

1492

Columbus’ First Voyage to New World

C. 1500

Sikhism Established by Guru Nanak

1517

95 Theses of Martin Luther

1526

First Enslaved Africans Brought to the New World

1542/1605

Reign of Akbar (Mughal Empire)

1572

Fall of the Inca Empire

1626/1635

Ana Nzinga’s Resistance Mvt.

1632/1653

Shah Jahan Built the Taj Mahal

1635

Tokugawa Shogunate Closed to the World

1644

Qing (Manchu) Dynasty Founded

1689

John Locke Wrote the 2nd Treatise on Government

1703

Peter the Great Built St. Petersburg

1722

Fall of the Safavid Empire

Late 600s

Construction of the Grand Canal (Sui Dynasty)

802

Khmer Empire Founded

850

Gunpowder Invented

Late 1100s

Establishment of Neo Confucianism

1071

Seljuk Turks Invade Abbasids

1258

Mongols Defeat the Abbasids

1279

Fall of the Song/establishment of Yuan

1299

Ottoman Empire Founded

1325/1332

Ibn Battuta’s Travels

1337

Mansa Musa’s Hajj

1348

Bubonic Plague Reached Europe

1405

Zheng He’s First Voyage

1428

Aztec Empire Established

1769

Watt’s Steam Engine Invented

1776

Declaration of Independence/American Revolution began

1789

French Rev Begins / Declaration of the Rights of Man / Dec. Of Rights of Woman

1804

Haitian Independence

1815

Simon Bolivar Wrote the Letter from Jamaica

1839

Opium Wars

1861

Russian Serfs Freed

1857

Sepoy Mutiny/Est of British Raj

1868

Meiji Restoration

1888

Brazil Abolished Slavery

1848

Marx/Engels Wrote the Communist Manifesto

1859

publication of Darwin’s “On the Origins Of Species”

1884/1885

Berlin Conference