AP World History Modern Timeline/Important Dates

750-1258

Abbasid Caliphate

960-1279

Song Dynasty

1000-1200

Kingdom of Ghana

1000-1400

Swahili cities

1200-1400

Mali Empire

1206-1526 (13th - 16th centuries)

Delhi Sultanate

1215

Magna Carta signed

1258

Mongol conquest of Baghdad; fall of Abbasid caliphate

1324

Mansa Musa's pilgrimage to Mecca

1271

Marco Polo's trip to China

1279-1368

Yuan Dynasty

1289-1923

Ottoman Empire

1300-1600s

Renaissance

1337-1453

Hundred Years' War

1345-1521

Aztec Empire

1347-1353

Black Plague / Bubonic Plague

1368-1644

Ming Dynasty

1405-1433

Zheng He's 7 voyages

1400-1533

Inca Empire

1396-1910

Kingdom of Kongo

Printing Press invented

1440

1441

Atlantic slave trade begins

1450-1480

Russia overthrows Mongol rule in Moscow

1453

Fall of Constantinople

1464-1591

Songhai Empire

1488

Portuguese navigates around the Cape of Good Hope into the Indian Ocean

1492

Columbus reaches the Americas

1491

Reconquista of Spain

1494

Treaty of Tordesillas

1497-98

Vasco de Gama travels to India

1501-1722

Safavid Dynasty (Shia Islami -1524)

1517

Martin Luther 95 Theses/begins the protestant revolution

1519-1521

Magellan sails around the world

1526-1858

Mughal Dynasty

1543

Copernicus shares ideas about a heliocentric universe

1545-1563

Council of Trent

1556-1605

Akbar the Great reign in Mughal Empire

1600

British East India Company founded

1600-1867

Tokugawa shogunate

1602

Dutch East India Company founded

1607

Foundation of Jamestown

1608

Foundation of Quebec

1618-1648

Thirty Years' War

1643-1715

King Louis XIV reign in France

1644-1911

Qing/Manchu Dynasty

1689-1725

Peter the Great; Westernization of Russia

1698

Early steam engine

1715-1789

Enlightenment

1754-1763

French and Indian War

1750

Industrial Revolution

1755-1763

Seven Years' War

1760-1789

First Industrial Revolution

1765-1783

American Revolutionary War

1776

Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

1788

Europe colonizes Australia

1788-1789

French Revolution

1793-1804

Haitian Revolution

1799-1814

Reign of Napoleon

1807

End of British slave trade

1806-1826

Latin American revolutions

1812

War of 1812

1814-1815

Congress of Vienna

1833

UK's Factory Act restricts the employment of women and children in textile factories

1838-1839

Trail of Tears

1839-1860

Opium Wars

1842

UK's Mines Act restricts the employment of women and children in mines

1846-1848

Mexican-American War

1848

Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx (Early years of German industry)

1850s

La Reforma in Mexico

1850-1864

Taiping Rebellion

1853-1856

Crimean War

1857

Sepoy Rebellion

1859-1869

Construction of Suez Canal

1859-1870

Unification of Italy

1860-1895

Self-strengthening movement

1861-1865

US Civil War

1864-1871

Unification of Germany

1865

Abolition of slavery in the US

1868

Meiji Restoration

1884-1885

Berlin West African Conference

1894-1895

Sino-Japanese War

1898-1899

Spanish-Cuban-American War

1899-1902

South African War (Boer War)

1900

Boxer Rebellion

1904-1905

Russo-Japanese War

1904-1914

Construction of Panama Canal

1905

Russian Revolution of 1905

1905-1906

Maji Maji Rebellion

1906

Founding of All-India Muslim League

1910-1920

Mexican Revolution

1911

Xinhai Revolution

1914-1918

WWI

1917

German resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare; US declared war on Germany; Bolshevik Revolution / Russian Revolution

1918-1920

Civil war in Russia

1919

Paris Peace Conference; May Fourth Movement in China

1920

Non-cooperation movement in India; 19th amendment allowed women in US to vote

1927-1950

Chinese Civil War

1928-1932

First Soviet 5 Plan

1929-1939

Great Depression

1930

Civil Disobedience Movement in India