All the Dates for the Massive Dates Test

life of Buddha, Confucius, Laozi the (beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism)

6th Century B.C.E. (aka 500s BCE)

Roman capital moved to Constantinople

333

Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes

4th C

"Fall" of Rome

476

Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire

527

Fall of Gupta Dynasty/Empire

550

Founding of Islam

622

Printing invented in China

c. 730

Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France)

732

Decline of classical Maya

c. 900

Great Schism in Christian Church (Roman Catholic & Eastern Orthodox)

1054

Norman conquest of England

1066

1st Crusade

1095

Chinggis Khan begins Mongol conquests

1206

Mongols sack Baghdad, end of Abbasid caliphate

1258

Marco Polo's travels

1271-1295

Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty in China

1279-1368

Mansa Musa's pilgrimage/hajj

1324

travels of Ibn Battuta

1325-1349

Bubonic plague in Europe

1347-1348

Ming Dynasty

1368-1644

Zheng He's voyages

1405-1433

Rise of Inca Empire

1438

Ottomans capture Constantinople

1453

Printing Press in Europe (Gutenberg)

1450s

Height of Aztec Empire

ca 1480s

Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope

1488

Columbus and the Reconquista of Spain

1492

1st African Slaves to Americas

1502

Martin Luther/Prot Reformation

1517

Cortez conquered the Aztecs

1521

1st unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna (under Suleiman)

1529

Pizarro toppled the Inca

1533

Discovery of silver at Potosí

1545

Battle of Lepanto (Ottoman naval defeat)

1571

1st Manila Galleon (global trade)

1571

Spanish Armada

1588

Battle of Sekigahara (beg of Tokugawa Shogunate)

1600

foundation of Jamestown

1607

30 Years War

1618-1648

end of Ming/beg of Qing Dynasty

1644

Cape Town colony founded (Dutch)

1653

2nd unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna (Mehmet IV)

1683

Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights

1689

7 Years War (French and Indian War)

1756-1763

Invention of the Spinning Jenny (using machines to manufacture)

1767

Declartion of Independence (American Rev)

1776

Adam Smith writes Wealth of Nations

1776

French Revolution begins

1789

Jenner's smallpox vaccine

1796

Haitian independence

1804

British abolish Trans-Atlantic slave trade

1807

Janissary Revolt

1807-08

Congress of Vienna

1815

Independence in Latin America

1820s

1st Opium War in China

1839

Tanzimat Reforms

1839-1878

Marx & Engles' The Communist Manifesto

1848

European revolutions

1848-1849

Commodore Perry opens Japan

1853

Sepoy Mutiny

1857

end of Russian serfdom

1861

U.S. Civil War

1861-1865

Italian unification

1861-1870

U.S. Emancipation Proclamation

1863

German unification

1871

Berlin Conference division of Africa (begins "Scramble for Africa")

1885

New Zealand grants women suffrage

1893

Battle of Adwa (Ethiopians defeat Italians)

1896

Spanish-American War (US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico)

1898

Boer War (British in control of S Africa)

1899-1902

Industrial Revolution

1750-1900

Italian invasion of Ethiopia

1935

Japanese invasion of (rest of) China (Rape of Nanking)

1937

German blitzkrieg in Poland

1939

Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII

1941

Yalta Conference (beg of Cold War?)

1945 Feb

Hiroshima/Nagasaki

1945 Aug

end of WWII (Japan surrenders)

1945 Sept

Truman Doctrine ("official" decl of Cold War)

1947 June

independence & partition of India

1947 Aug

Birth of Israel

1948

Berlin Blockade/Airlift

1948-49

NATO founded

1949 Apr

Chinese Communist Revolution

1949 Oct

Korean War

1950-1953

Vietnam expels France (Dien Bien Phu)

1954

Bandung Conf (Non-Aligned Nations)

1955

Khrushchev begins de-Stalinization

Feb 1956

Nationalization of Suez Canal

Fall 1956

Sputnik

1957

Cuban Revolution (Fidel Castro)

1959

Cuban Missile Crisis

1962

Chinese Cultural Revolution

1966-1976

6-Day War

1967

Yom Kippur war (OPEC Oil Embargo)

1973

Iranian Revolution

1979

China begins "Socialist Market Economy" reforms (Deng Xiaoping)

1979

1st Palestinian Intifada

1987

Tiananmen Square

1989 June