Essential Chronology AP World History 2025-26

Hinduism Develops

2300-1500 BCE

Judaism Develops

1500 BCE

Confucianism Develops

500's BCE

Buddhism Develops

400 BCE

Christianity Develops

100's CE

Islam Develops

600's CE

Mongol invasion of Kyivian Rus

1242

Mongol invasion of Abbasid Dynasty

1258

Mongol invasion of Song Dynasty

1271

Black Death rages across Europe & Eurasia

1346

Ming Dynasty conquers Yuan Dynasty

1368

Boxer Rebellion (fails, intensifies European imperialism in China)

1900

Russo-Japanese War (begins era of Japanese Imperialism in Korea)

1905

Xinhai Revolution (brings end to Qing Dynasty and dynastic rule in China)

1911

Doctrine of Discovery (Passed by the Vatican)

1452-1493

Ottoman Conquest of Byzantine Empire

1453

Sikhism Begins

1469

Spanish Reconquista ends after 700 years

1490/January 2nd, 1493

First encounter with Arawak & Spanish

1492

WW1 starts

1914

Bolshevik Revolution

1917

Protestant Reformation (disrupts religious rule in Europe)

1517

Slave trade (begins in South America)

1526

Mughal empire (begins on the Indian subcontinent)

1526

Scientific Revolution

1543

Treaty of Versailles (Ends WW1)

1919

Chinese Civil War

1927

Globalization (First wave)

1492-1775

Russian Empire (expands eastward into Siberia)

1550

T.A. Slavery begins in North America

1619

Ming Dynasty collapses as the Qing Dynasty begins

1644

Great Depression

1929

The Holodomor

1933

Kongo Civil War weakens African resistance to Europe

1666

Glorious Revolution spurs European Enlightenment

1689

Industrial Revolution (begins in England and spreads throughout Europe and North America)

1750-1910's

WW2 Begins

1937 + 1939

Holocaust + US Atomic Bomb droppings

1941-1945

Age of Revolution (leaves North & South America of mostly independent of European colonial rule)

1776-1821

Cold War Begins

1946

Opium Wars

1838

Taiping Rebellion

1850

Sepoy Indian Rebellion

1857

Social Darwinism

1858

Age of Decolonization Begins

1947-1989

Founding of Israel

1948

Meiji Restoration

1868

Berlin Conference

1884

Manifest Destiny

1890

First Sino-Japanese War

1895

Chinese Communist Revolution

1949

Korean War (marks a new era of Cold War proxy wars)

1950-1991

Green Revolution Begins

1960's

Digital Revolution begins

1980's

Iranian Islamic Revolution

1979

9/11 Terrorist Attacks

2001