AP World History Key Dates

AP World History key dates for exam review.

When did agriculture begin?

8000 B.C.E.

When did the Bronze Age begin?

3000 B.C.E.

When did the Iron Age begin?

1300 B.C.E.

When did the lives of Buddha, Confucius, and Lao Tzu occur?

6th century B.C.E.

When was the Greek Golden Age?

5th century B.C.E.

When did Alexander the Great live?

323 B.C.E.

When was China unified by Qin?

221 B.C.E.

When did Christianity begin?

32 C.E.

When did the Pax Romana end?

180 C.E.

When did the Han Dynasty end?

220 C.E.

When was the Roman capital moved to Constantinople?

333 C.E.

When did Trans-Saharan Trade Routes begin?

4th Century

When did Rome fall?

476

When did Justinian rule the Byzantine Empire?

527

When was Islam founded?

622

When was the Battle of Tours?

732

When was the Great Schism?

1054

When was the Norman conquest of England?

1066

When was the Battle of Manzikert?

1071

When was the First Crusade?

1095

When did Mongols sack Baghdad?

1258

When did Marco Polo travel?

1271-1295

When was Mansa Musa's pilgrimage?

1324

When did Ibn Battuta travel?

1325-1349

When was the Bubonic plague in Europe?

1347-1348

When did Zheng He's voyages end?

1433

When did the Ottomans capture Constantinople?

1453

When did Dias round the Cape of Good Hope?

1488

When did Columbus sail the ocean blue?

1492

When was the Reconquista of Spain?

1492

When were the first slaves brought to the Americas?

1502

When did Martin Luther write the 95 theses?

1517

When did Cortez conquer the Aztecs?

1521

When did Pizarro topple the Inca?

1533

When was the Battle of Lepanto?

1571

When was the Spanish Armada defeated?

1588

When was the Battle of Sekigahara?

1600

When was Jamestown founded?

1607

When was the Thirty Years War?

1618-1648

When was the unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna?

1683

When was the Glorious Revolution?

1689

When was the English Bill of Rights written?

1689

When was the Seven Years War?

1756-1763

When was the French and Indian War?

1756-1763

When was the American Revolution?

1776

When did Smith write Wealth of Nations?

1776

When was the French Revolution?

1789

When was Haitian independence?

1804

When was the Congress of Vienna?

1815

When was independence in Latin America?

1820s

When was the First Opium War?

1839

When did Marx & Engels write the Communist Manifesto?

1848

When did Commodore Perry open Japan?

1853

When was the Sepoy Mutiny?

1857

When was the end of Russian serfdom?

1861

When was Italian unification?

1861

When was the Emancipation Proclamation in the US?

1863

When was German unification?

1871

When was the Berlin Conference?

1885

When was the Spanish-American War?

1898

When was the Boer War?

1899

When was the Russo-Japanese War?

1905

When was the Mexican Revolution?

1910-1920

When was the Chinese Revolution?

1911

When was World War I?

1914-1918

When was the Russian Revolution?

1917

When was the Treaty of Versailles?

1919

When was the stock market crash?

1929

When was the Japanese invasion of Manchuria?

1931

When was the Italian invasion of Ethiopia?

1935

When was the German blitzkrieg in Poland?

1939

When was Pearl Harbor?

1941

When did the US enter WWII?

1941

When did WWII end?

1945

When was the independence & partition of India?

1947

When was the birth of Israel?

1948

When was the Chinese Communist Revolution?

1949

When was the Korean War?

1950-1953

When did the Vietnamese defeat the French at Dien Bien Phu?

1954

When was de-Stalinization?

1956

When was the nationalization of the Suez Canal?

1956

When was the Cuban Revolution?

1959

When was the Cuban missile crisis?

1962

When was the Six-Day War?

1967

When was the Chinese Cultural Revolution?

1967

When was the Yom Kippur War?

1973

When was the Iranian Revolution?

1979

When was the First Palestinian Intifada?

1987

When was the Tiananmen Square?

1989

When did the Berlin Wall fall?

1989

When was the fall of the USSR?

1991

When was the First Gulf War?

1991

When was the genocide in Rwanda?

1994

When were the first all-race elections in South Africa?

1994

When were the 9/11 Attacks?

2001