AP World Dates

10,000 BCE

Neolithic Revolution

8000 BCE

Agricultural Revolution

1300 BCE

Iron Age

1400 BCE

Veiling of women

221 BCE

Unification of China under Qin Dynasty

220 CE

End of Han Dynasty

313 CE

Edict of Milan

476 CE

Fall of Rome in Western Europe

610 CE

Muhammad receives revelations from Archangel Gabriel

622 CE

Hegira (Muhammad flees Mecca for Medina); first year of Islamic calendar

632 CE

Muhammad dies; schism between Shia and Sunni sects of Islam

800 CE

Charlemagne crowned “Holy Roman Emperor” by the Pope

1054 CE

Great Schism between Orthodox and Catholicism

1071 CE

Battle of Manzikert; Seljuk Turks invade Byzantine Empire

1095 CE

Pope Urban II calls for the Crusades

1204 CE

Fourth Crusade - French and Venetian merchants invade Byzantine Empire (Christians vs Christians)

1206 - 1368 CE

Mongol Empire

1211 CE

Beginning of Mongol conquests

1215 CE

Magna Carta is signed

1258 CE

Siege of Baghdad by Mongols

Abbasid caliphate ends, starts il-Khanate

1405 - 1433 CE

Voyages of Zheng He

1453 CE

Constantinople is sacked by Ottomans; end of Byzantine Empire

1514 CE

Battle of Chaldiran between Ottomans and Safavids (Sunni vs Shia)

1517 CE

Protestant Reformation

1521 CE

Cortes conquers Aztecs 1

1532 CE

Pizarro conquers Incas

1598 CE

Edict of Nantes (religious tolerance of French Huguenots)

1644 - 1911 CE

Qing Dynasty

1689 CE

Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights - England becomes a constitutional monarchy

1750 CE

Industrial Revolution

1776 CE

Declaration of Independence

Smith writes “Wealth of Nations”

1789 - 1799 Ce

French Revolution

1807 CE

End of British Slave Trade

1815 CE

Congress of Vienna - division of Europe by absolute powers

1848 CE

European Revolutions

“Communist Manifesto” is written

1857 CE

Sepoy Rebellion

1861 CE

American Civil War

Serfdom ends in Russia

1863 CE

Emancipation Proclamation

1871 CE

Unification of Germany

Unification of Italy

1868 CE

Meiji Restoration

1914 - 1918 CE

World War I

1917 CE

Russian Revolution

Bolshevik/Communist Revolution

1919 CE

Treaty of Versailles

1929 CE

Stock market crash

Great Depression

1939 - 1945 CE

World War II

1947 CE

Partition of India

1948 CE

Creation of Israel

1953 CE

End of Korean War

Stalin dies

1989 CE

Velvet Revolution

Tiananmen Square Massacre

Fall of Berlin Wall

1994 CE

Rwandan Genocide

End of South African Apartheid

2001 CE

9/11

1991 CE

Fall of Soviet Union