AP World Terms

Genghis Khan Dies

Genghis Khan Dies

1227

Marco Polo's Travels Begin

1271

Yuan Dynasty Replaces Song

1271

Longbow

1298

Ottoman Empire Begins

1299

Mansa Musa to Mecca

1324

Ibn Battuta's Travels Begin

1325

Aztec Capital of Tenochtitlan

1325

First English War Cannons

1327

Hundred Years' War Begins

1337

Black Death in Europe

1347

Pachacuti Inca Emperor

1450

Ottomans Take Constantinople

1453

Gutenberg Printing Press

1454

Reconquista of Spain

1492

Vasco de Gama Sails to India

1497

Leanardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa

1503

Henry VIII Crowned King

1509

Martin Luther's 95 Theses

1517

Magellan's Circumnavigation

1519

Mughal Empire Established

1526

Cortez Conquers Aztecs

1568

Mercator Map

1569

Spanish Conquer Inca Empire

1572

Spanish Armada is Defeated

1588

Songhai Empire Defeated

1591

Dutch East India Company Formed

1602

Jamestown Founded

1607

1st Slave Ships in Americas

1619

Qing Replaces Ming Dynasty

1644

Treaty of Westphalia

1648

Peter the Great Becomes Czar

1682

Catherine the Great

1762

Storming of Bastille

1789

Reign of Terror Begins

1793

Haitian Independence

1804

Venezuelan War Independence

1810

First Opium War

1839

End of Mughal Empire

1857

Indian Rebellion

1857

End of Russian Serfdom

1861

End of Edo Period

1868

Otto von Bismarck Chancellor

1871

Berlin Conference

1884

Boer War Begins

1899

Russo-Japanese War

1904

Mexican Revolution Begins

1910

World War I Begins

1914

Armenian Genocide

1915

Soviet Union is Formed

1922

Salt March

1930

Kristallnacht

1938

World War II Begins

1939

World War II Ends

1945

Vietnamese Independence

1945

Partition of India

1947

Mao Zedong's PRC

1949

Cuban Missile Crisis

1962

Six-Day War

1967

Angolan Civil War Begins

1975

Fall of Berlin Wall

1989

End of Soviet Union

1991

Rwanda Genocide

1994

Mandela President of S. Africa

1994

Bosnian War Enda

1995

Invasion of Iraq

2003