AP World History Important Dates

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Postclassical Era - Units 1 & 2 (1200-1450), Early Modern Era - Units 3 & 4 (1450-1750), Modern Era - Units 5 & 6 (1750-1900), and Contemporary Era - Units 7, 8, & 9 (1900-Present)

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Edict of Milan (Christianity legalized in Roman Empire)

313 (Era 1)

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Fall of Rome

476 (Era 1)

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Rise of Islam

632 (Era 1)

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Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into Europe/France)

732 (Era 1)

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Norman conquest of England

1066 (Era 1)

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1st Crusade

1095 (Era 1)

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Mongols Conquered Baghdad

1258 (Era 1)

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Marco Polo Travels

1271-1295 (Era 1)

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Mansa Musa’s Pilgrimage

1324 (Era 1)

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Ibn Battuta’s Travels

1325-1354 (Era 1)

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Bubonic Plague in Europe

1347-1348 (Era 1)

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Ottomans Captured Constantinople

1453 (Era 2)

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Dias Rounded Cape of Good Hope

1488 (Era 2)

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Martin Luther/95 Theses

1517 (Era 2)

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Cortes Conquered the Aztecs

1521 (Era 2)

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Pizarro Conquered the Inca

1533 (Era 2)

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Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British

1588 (Era 2)

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Founding of Jamestown by English Colonists in N America

1607 (Era 2)

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Beginning of the Enlightenment

1685 (Era 2)

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Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights

1689 (Era 2)

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Beginning of the 1st Industrial Revolution

1760 (Era 3)

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American Revolution

1776 (Era 3)

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French Revolution

1789 (Era 3)

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Haitian Revolution

1791 (Era 3)

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Independence in Latin America

1820s (Era 3)

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1st Opium War in China

1839 (Era 3)

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Marx and Engels Wrote Communist Manifesto

1848 (Era 3)

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Sepoy Mutiny in India

1857 (Era 3)

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Beginning of the 2nd Industrial Revolution

1870 (Era 3)

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Berlin Conference, Scramble for Africa Began

1884-1885 (Era 3)

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Mexican Revolution

1910-1920 (Era 4)

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WWI Began

1914 (Era 4)

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Armenian Genocide

1915-1916 (Era 4)

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Russian Revolution

1917-1923 (Era 4)

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End of WWI

1918 (Era 4)

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Treaty of Versailles Signed

1919 (Era 4)

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Spanish Flu Pandemic

1919-1921 (Era 4)

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Stock Market Crash in United States, Beginning of Global Depression

1929 (Era 4)

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German Blitzkrieg in Poland, WWII Began

1939 (Era 4)

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Pearl Harbor, Entry of US into WWII

1941 (Era 4)

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End of WWII/Start of Cold War

1945 (Era 4)

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Chinese Communist Revolution Ends

1949 (Era 4)

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US Korean War

1950-1953 (Era 4)

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Vietnamese Defeat French at Dien Bien Phu

1954 (Era 4)

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De-Stalinization/Nationalization of Suez Canal

1956 (Era 4)

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China’s Great Leap Forward

1958 (Era 4)

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Cuban Missile Crisis

1962 (Era 4)

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US Vietnam War

1964-1973 (Era 4)

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Chinese Cultural Revolution

1966 (Era 4)

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Prague Spring, MLK Assassinated, Student Protests

1968 (Era 4)

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Cambodian Genocide

1975-1979 (Era 4)

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Tiananmen Square/Fall of Berlin Wall

1989 (Era 4)

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Fall of USSR

1991 (Era 4)

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Rwandan Genocide

1994 (Era 4)

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9/11 Attack

2001 (Era 4)

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Start of Arab Spring

2010 (Era 4)