APWH Important Dates

Period 1 Units 1 and 2

1200-1450

Mongol Empire (largest land empire in history)

1206 - 1368

Beginnings of Bubonic Plague in Mediterranean World

1347 - 1348

Marco Polo's Travels to China

1271 - 1295

Magna Carta(*signed by King John of England, Kings subjected to the law)

1215

Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage to Mecca

1324

Ibn Battuta's Travels

1349

Zheng He's Voyages

1405 - 1433

Period 2 Units 3 and 4

1450 - 1750

Ottomans Seized Constantinople

1453

Columbus Sailed to Americas

1492

Treaty of Tordesillas( agreement between Spain-Portugal, divided the newly discovered lands and trade routes between them)

1494

Martin Luther/95 Theses

1517

Cortez Conquered the Aztecs

1521

Pizarro Conquered the Incas

1533

Glorious Revolution

1689

Period 3 Units 4 - 6

1750 - 1900

Industrial Revolution Begins in England

1750s

Seven Years War

1756 - 1763

Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations

& Thomas Paine's Common Sense

1776

The Declaration of Independence

1776

The French Revolution Begins

1789

Haitian Independence

1804

Napoleon Defeated at Waterloo

Congress of Vienna

1815

Communist Manifesto

(Marx & Engels)

1848

First Opium War

1839 - 1842

Commodore Matthew Perry Sails to Japan

1853 - 4

Sepoy Rebellion

1857

Meiji Restoration

1868

The Berlin Conference

1884 - 5

Sino - Japanese War over Korea

1895

Period 4 Units 7 - 9

1900 - Present

Russo - Japanese War

1905

Mexican Revolution

1919 - 1920

Chinese Revolution

1911

WWI

1914 - 1918

The Russian Revolution

1917

The Treaty of Versailles

1919

The start of the Great Depression

1929

Japanese Invasion of Manchuria

1931

Nanking Massacre

1937

German Invasion of Poland(Start of WWII)

1939

Attack on Pearl Harbor

1941

End of WWII

1945

Creation of State of Israel

1948

Mao Zedong comes to power in China

1949

The Korean War

1950 - 1953

Vietnam defeats France

1954

Cuban Revolution

1959

Cuban Missile Crisis

1962

The Chinese Cultural Revolution

1967

Iranian Revolution

1979

Fall of Berlin Wall

1989

Fall of USSR/Persian Gulf War

1991

9/11 Attacks

War on Terror Begins

2001