Semester Two HWS Final Chronological Complete

As always, shuffle terms and pick a couple. Or, you can use the Java program. Thanks to whoever made the timeline that this was based off of!

Sumerians create Cuneiform

Sumerians create Cuneiform

3200 BC

Ancient Egypt

3100-30 BC

First Ziggurats in Sumer

2900 to 2350 BC

Abraham travels to the Holy Land and makes a covenant with God

200-1700 BC

Hammurabi is the Babylonian king

1700 BC

Hittites introduce iron

1500 BC

Ismael lives

1800 BC

Isaac lives

1780 BC-1500 ish

Persian empire

500 BC

Zoroastrianism created

600-700 BC

Greek empire reaches its height

300 BC

Greeks(Alexander the Great) conquers the Middle East and ends the Persian empire

323 BC

Jesus Christ is born

6-4 ish BC

Jesus dies

30

Temple of Jerusalem is destroyed

70

Rome conquers the ME

115

Mayans

300-900 AC

Constantine(Rome) converts to Christianity

315

Council of Nicea

325

Mohammed

570-632

Mohammed marries Khadijah

590

The Kaaba is built

608

The Hegira to Medina; Islamic state is organized

622

Spread of Islam

622-644

Mohammad dies, split of Muslim faith into Shia and Sunni

632

The Caliphs(Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, Ali) rule

632-661

Umayyads rule, Ahl al-dhimma

661

Abbasids rule

750-1055

Kievan Rus founded the capital Kiev

800s-900s

Seljuks rule

1055-1190

The crusades are started by Urban II

1095-1291

Saladin fights off Christians and reclaims Jerusalem

1187

Aztecs

1200s-1520

Mongol conquest of ME begins

1218-1303

Ottoman Empire

1299-1923

Tenochtitlan founded by Aztecs

1325

jews are blamed for the Black Plague

1348

Incas

1430-1530

Incas make Quipus

1430-1530

Ottomans conquer Constantinople and end the Byzantine Empire

1453

Columbus arrives in the Caribbean

1492

Treaty of Tordesillas is signed, and the line of demarcation is created

1494

Safavids

1501-1736

Balboa leads his expedition through Panama

1513

Encomienda system is set up

early 1500s

Cortes lands on the coast of Mexico and conquers the Aztecs; Magellan sets out from Spain

1519

Suleiman I the Magnificent rules

1520-1566

Pizarro lands on the coast of Peru, conquers the Incas, and executes Atahualpa

1532

Bartolome de las Casas protestation incited the end of the encomienda system

1542

The Hacienda system is created

late 1500s

Shah Abbas the Great

1588-1629

Banned the enslavement of Native Americans through the New Laws of the Indies; first Africans came as slaves

1542

Toussaint L’Ouverture rebels with slaves, civil war

1791

French capture L’Ouverture and kept the Haitian leader in prison until his death

1803

Haiti becomes independent country from France

1804

Father Hidalgo makes his “Grito de Dolores”

1810

Father Hidalgo dies, Jose Morelos leads the Mexican rebels

1811-1815

Jose de San Martin frees Argentina

1816

Jose de San Martin frees Chile

1818

Simon Bolivar defeats the Spanish forces in Bogota, sets up the Republic of Gran Colombia

1819

Augustin Iturbide declared himself emperor of the freed Mexican country

1821

Monroe Doctrine

1823

Jose de San Martin and Simon Bolivar free Ecuador and Peru

1825

Death of many revolutionary leaders lead to the rise of the caudillos

1830s

Lopez de Santa Anna is president of Mexico

1833

Czar Alexander II takes the throne

1855

Alexander II liberates serfs from boyars

1861

Benito Juarez is president of Mexico’s constitutional government

1861

Alexander II reforms education and relaxes speech laws

1860s

Maximilian is sent by the French to rule Mexico

1862-1865

Alexander II is assassinated

1881

Brazil abolishes slavery, Kind Pedro is overthrown, a republic is announced in Brazil

1888-89

Alexander III dies, Nicholas II comes to power

1894

Russian Social Democratic Workers party formed

1898

Pogroms in Russia

late 1800s-early 1900s

Social democrats split into Bolsheviks and Mensheviks

1903

Bloody Sunday, soviets formed

1905

Nicholas II agrees to civil reforms, constitution, created Duma

1905

Constitutional Democratic Party, Kadets, is formed

1905

Nicholas II dissolves multiple Dumas, changes election laws to favor nobles

1906-1907

Lenin flees Russia

1907

Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated WWI begins

1914

February Revolution, Nicholas II abdicates throne, monarg=chy ends

1917

Lenin returns to Russia

1917

Alexander Kerensky leads the Provisional Government

1917

October Revolution, Lenin and Bolsheviks gain power by overthrowing the Provisional Government

1917

British issue the Balfour Declaration

1917

Civil war begins, Russia pulls out of WWI, Communists form Red Army, war communism

1918

Bolsheviks establish the Comintern

1919

WWI ends, Treaty of Versailles, Weimar constitution

1919

New Economic Policy, end of war communism

1921

Red Army/Communists defeat Whites in civil war, form USSR

1922

Ottoman Empire ends, Palestine becomes a mandate of Britain

1922

Lenin dies

1924

Hitler publishes Mein Kampf

1925

Josef Stalin comes to power

1928

Good Neighbor Policy

1930s

Adolf Hitler becomes the chancellor of Germany, within a year he is dictator

1933

The “Great Terror”

1934-38

Arab Revolt of Balfour Declaration, also called the “Great Revolt”

1936-1939