Historical Events and Dates

Flashcards of key historical events and dates

Genghis Khan Dies

1227

Storming of Bastille

1789

Marco Polo's Travels Begin

1271

Reign of Terror Begins

1793

Yuan Dynasty Replaces Song

1271

Haitian Independence

1804

Longbow

1298

Venezuelan War Independence

1810

Ottoman Empire Begins

1299

First Opium War

1839

Mansa Musa to Mecca

1324

End of Mughal Empire

1857

Ibn Battuta's Travels Begin

1325

Indian Rebellion

1857

Aztec Capital of Tenochtitlan

1325

End of Russian Serfdom

1861

First English War Cannons

1327

End of Edo Period

1868

Hundred Years' War Begins

1337

Otto von Bismarck Chancellor

1871

Black Death in Europe

1347

Berlin Conference

1884

Pachacuti Inca Emperor

1450

Boer War Begins

1899

Ottomans Take Constantinople

1453

Russo-Japanese War

1904

Gutenberg Printing Press

1454

Mexican Revolution Begins

1910

Reconquista of Spain

1492

World War I Begins

1914

Vasco da Gama Sails to India

1497

Armenian Genocide

1915

Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa

1503

Soviet Union is Formed

1922

Henry VIII Crowned King

1509

Salt March

1930

Martin Luther's 95 Theses

1517

Kristallnacht

1938

Magellan's Circumnavigation

1519

World War II Begins

1939

Mughal Empire Established

1526

World War II Ends

1945

Cortez Conquers Aztecs

1568

Vietnamese Independence

1945

Mercator Map

1569

Partition of India

1947

Spanish Conquer Inca Empire

1572

Mao Zedong's PRC

1949

Spanish Armada is Defeated

1588

Cuban Missile Crisis

1962

Songhai Empire Defeated

1591

Six-Day War

1967

Dutch East India Co. Formed

1602

Angolan Civil War Begins

1975

Jamestown Founded

1607

Fall of Berlin Wall

1989

1st Slave Ships in Americas

1619

End of Soviet Union

1991

Qing Replaces Ming Dynasty

1644

Rwanda Genocide

1994

Treaty of Westphalia

1648

Mandela President of S. Africa

1994

Peter the Great Becomes Czar

1682

Bosnian War Ends

1995

Catherine the Great

1762

Invasion of Iraq

2003