AP World History Modern Timeline

1534

France begins to colonize the Americas

1543

Copernicus shares ideas about a heliocentric universe

1545

Discovery of silver at Potosi mine

1550-1700

Scientific Revolution

1552

Russian Empire begins

1555

Peace of Augsburg

1556-1605

Akbar the Great rules the Mughal Empire

1571

Founding of Manila and beginning of global trade

1588

Battle of the Spanish Armada (Phillip II and Elizabeth I)

1600

British East India Company founded

1600-1826

Tokugawa shogunate

1602

Dutch East India Company founded

1607

Britain begins colonizing the Americas with Jamestown

1623-1641

Tokugawa Iemitsu rules Japan and establishes Japanese isolationism

1632

Taj Mahal built

1643-1715

Louis XIV rules France; absolute monarchy in France

1648

The Peace of Westphalia ended the 30 Years War

1652

Dutch Boers colonize South Africa

1666

Shah Jahan dies (the guy who built the Taj Mahal)

1687

Newton's Principia published

1688-1911

Qing (Manchu) Empire

1689-1725

Peter the Great rules and westernizes Russia

1689

Glorious Revolution in England

1698

Early steam engine invented (James Watts)

1715-1789

The Enlightenment

1756-1763

7 Years' War

1757

Battle of Plassey begins English colonization in India

1760-1789

First Industrial Revolution

1776

American Revolution begins

1789

French Revolution Begins

1791-1804

Haitian Revolution

1792

Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft published

1793

Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin

1799-1815

Napoleonic reign in France

1806-1826

Latin American Revolutions

1815

Congress of Vienna

1839-1860

Opium Wars

1839-1876

Tanzimat reforms in the Ottoman Empire

1845-1849

Irish Potato Famine

1848

Communist Manifesto published

1850-1864

Taiping Rebellion

1854

Commodore Perry opens Japan

1857

Sepoy Rebellion in India

1859

Suez Canal built by Britain in Egypt

1861

Russian serfs emancipated

1863

Emancipation Proclamation in U.S.

1865-1909

King Leopold rules the Congo; commits human rights crimes to get rubber

1868

Meiji Restoration in Japan

1870-1914

Second Industrial Revolution

1871

Germany unified under Otto von Bismarck

1885

Berlin Conference

1890s

European spheres of influence in China

1896

Battle of Adowa (Ethiopians defeat Italians)

1898

Spanish-American War

1899

Boer War

1899-1902

United Fruit Company established

1899-1901

Boxer Rebellion

1904-1905

Russo-Japanese War

1906

Muslim League founded

1910-1920

Mexican Revolution

1911

Chinese Nationalist Revolution

1914-1918

World War 1

June 28th, 1914

Assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand

November 11, 1918

Armistice Day

June 28, 1919

Treaty of Versailles

1918-1919

Spanish Flu Pandemic

1915-1917

Armenian genocide

1917

Russian Revolution (February and October Revolutions)

1920

League of Nations founded

1923

Turkey founded

1927-1936

Chinese Civil War

1929-1933

Great Depression

1922

Rise of Mussolini

1931

Japanese invasion of Manchuria

1932-1933

The Holodomor

1933

New Deal by FDR introduced in U.S.

August 2, 1934

Hitler become Fuhrer

1936-1938

Great Purge in USSR

September 1928

Munich Conference

December 13, 1937

Rape of Nanking

1937-1945

2nd Sino-Japanese War

1939-1945

World War 2

September 1st 1939

Invasion of Poland

June 1940

France Falls in the Battle of Dunkirk

1941

Operation Barbarossa

1941

Pearl Harbor attack

1941-1945

The Holocaust

1941-1953

Stalin in power in USSR

1943-1978

Green Revolution

1945-1950

Chinese Communist Revolution

1945

Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings