Charlotte's AP World Dates

325

Council of Nicea

476

Fall of Western Rome

632

Death of the Prophet Muhammad

732

Battle of Tours

750-1258

Abbasid Caliphate

1095

Crusades

1227

Death of Genghis Khan/ Start of Pax Mongolica/ Start of Mongolian Empire

1271-1295

Marco Polo's travels (Silk Road)

1300-1919

Ottoman Empire

1330

Italian Renaissance

1324-1325

Mansa Musa's pilgrimage

1325

Tenochtitlan founded

1325-1354

Ibn Battutas Travels

1346

Black Death in China

1347-1388

Black Death in Europe

1368-1644

Ming Dynasty

1405-1433 (1421!!)

Zheng He's Voyages

1419

Prince Henry founded navigation school

1428-1521

Aztec Empire

1438-1533

Inca Empire

1532

Battle of Cajamarca

1488

Battle of the Spanish Armada

1440

Printing press invented

1441

Start of Atlantic slave trade

1492

Reconquista of Spain

1492

Columbus sails to the New World/Spain Begins to Colonize/Columbian Exchange Begins

1494

Treaty of Tordesillas

1498

Vasco De Gama reaches India

1517

Protestant Reformation (95 Thesis)

1526-1740

Mughal Empire (Taj Mahal)

1545

Discovery of silver at Potosi

1552

Beginning of Russian Empire (Ivan the Terrible)

1555

Peace of Augsburg

1556-1605

Akbar the Great rules the Mughal Empire

1571

Founding of Manila and beginning of global trade

1600

British East India Company founded

1603-1826

Tokugawa Shogunate (Edo period)

1602

Dutch East India Company Founded

1632

Taj Mahal built

1683

Siege of Vienna

1688-1911/12

Qing (Manchu) Empire

1689-1725

Peter the Great rules and westernizes Russia

1689

Glorious Revolution (English Bill of Rights!)

1698

Early steam engine invented

1715-1789

Enlightenment

1756-1763

7 years war

1760-1789

First Industrial Revolution

1776-1783

American Revolution

1789-1795

French Revolution

1791-1804

Haitian Revolution

1792

Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft is published

1799-1815

Napoleon reign in France

1806-1826

Latin American Revolutions

1815

Congress of Vienna

1839-1860

Opium Wars

1848

Communist Manifesto

1850-1864

Taiping Rebellion

1854

Commodore Perry opens Japan

1857

Sepoy Rebellion in India

1865-1909

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

1885

Berlin Conference

1896

Battle of Adowa

1898

Spanish-American War

1899

Boer War

1899-1901

Boxer Rebellion

1904-1905

Russo-Japanese War

1910-1920

Mexican Revolution

June 28th, 1914

The Assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand

1914-1918

World War I

1915-1917

Armenian genocide

1917

Russian Revolution

1917

Zimmerman Telegram

1927-1936

Chinese Civil War

1929-1933

Great Depression

1931

Japanese invasion of Manchuria

1936-1938

Great Purge in USSR