MKD: pissing your pants

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Genghis Khan begins Mongol conquests

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Delhi Sultanate takes power in India

a

Magna Carta

a

Sundiata establishes the Mali Empire

a

Mongols sack Baghdad

a

Marco Polo’s travels

a

Fall of Song Dynasty

a

Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty in China

a

Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage/hajj

a

Aztecs found Tenochtitlan

a

travels of Ibn Battuta

a

Bubonic plague in Europe

a

Ming Dynasty

a

Zheng He’s 7 voyages

a

Rise of Inca Empire

b

Ottomans capture Constantinople

b

Printing Press in Europe (Gutenberg)

b

Height of Aztec Empire

b

Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope

b

Columbus to Americas/Reconquista of Spain

b

1st African Slaves to Americas

b

Martin Luther/Protestant Reformation

b

Cortez conquered the Aztecs

b

Magellan circumnavigates the Earth

b

Mughal Empire is established

b

1st unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna (Suleiman the Magnificent)

b

Pizarro topples the Inca

b

Discovery of silver at Potosí

b

Akbar begins his successful rule of the Mughal Empire

b

Battle of Lepanto (Ottoman naval defeat)

b

1st Manila Galleon (global trade of silver)

b

Spanish Armada

b

Battle of Sekigahara (beginning of Tokugawa Shogunate)

b

Dutch East India company established

b

foundation of Jamestown

b

30 Years War

b

Louis XIV of France takes power

b

Qing Dynasty

b

Cape Town colony founded (Dutch)

b

2nd unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna (Mehmet IV)

b

Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights

b

Peter the Great visits Western Europe

b

Afghan forces rebel

c

7 Years War (French and Indian War)

c

Invention of the Spinning Jenny (using machines to manufacture)

c

Decl. of Independence (American Rev)

c

Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (capitalism)

c

French Revolution begins

c

Jenner’s smallpox vaccine

c

Haitian independence

c

British abolish Trans-Atlantic slave trade

c

Janissary Revolt

c

Congress of Vienna

c

Independence in Latin America

c

Erie Canal opens

c

1st Opium War in China

c

Tanzimat Reforms

c

Marx & Engles’ The Communist Manifesto

c

European revolutions

c

Commodore Perry “opens” Japan

c

Sepoy Mutiny

c

Russia “frees” serfs / ends serfdom

c

U.S. Civil War

c

Italian unification

c

U.S. Emancipation Proclamation

c

Suez Canal Opens

c

German unification

c

Berlin Conference (begins “Scramble for Africa”)

c

Brazil ends slavery (last in Americas)

c

New Zealand grants women suffrage

c

Battle of Adowa (Ethiopians defeat Italians)

c

Spanish-American War (US acquires Philippines

c

Boer War (British in control of S Africa)

d

Russo-Japanese war

d

Mexican Revolution (Diaz overthrown

d

Chinese Revolution (end of Qing)

d

Panama Canal (Opened)

d

World War I

d

Armenian Genocide

d

Russian Revolution

d

Nov Balfour Declaration

d

Nov Armistice (end of WWI fighting)

d

Treaty of Versailles

d

Kellogg-Briand Pact (outlawing war)

d

New York Stock Market Crash

d

Salt March (Gandhi)

d

Japanese invasion of Manchuria

d

Long March in China

d

Italian invasion of Ethiopia

d

Japan invades (rest of) China (rape of Nanking)

d

German blitzkrieg in Poland (beg of WWII)

d

Pearl Harbor (US entry into WWII)

d

Battle of Stalingrad (turning point of war)

d

Feb Yalta Conference (beg of Cold War?)

d

Jul A-Bomb tested (Manhattan Project)

d

Aug Hiroshima/Nagasaki

d

United nations formed

d

Truman Doctrine (“official” declaration of Cold War)

d

independence & partition of India

d

birth of Israel