HWS Dates

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Mesopotamia

4000 BC

Nile River CIvilization

3500 BC

Indus River Valley Civilization

3000 BC

Huang He Civilization

2200 BC

Xia Dynasty

2000 BC

Shang Dynasty

1600 BC

Aryan Civilization

1500 BC

Zhou Dynasty

1000 BC

Buddhism Created

500 BC

Empire of Ghana

300 BC

Maurya Empire

300 BC

Qin Dynasty

220 BC - 200 BC

Han Dynasty

200 BC - 200 AD

Fall of Maurya Empire

150 BC

Korean 3 Kingdoms Period (Koguryo, Paekche, Silla)

50 BC

Yamato Period

300 AD

Gupta Empire

300 AD

Sui Dynasty

580 AD - 620 AD

Prince Shotoku rules Japan

600 AD

Fall of Gupta Empire

600 AD

Tang Dynasty

620 AD

Islam begins

630 AD

Taika Reforms

650 AD

Silla Dynasty in Korea

700 AD

Heian Court

800 AD

Koryo Dynasty

900 AD

Song Dynasty

1000 AD - 1300 AD

Minamoto Yoritomo/Kamakura Shogunate

1200 AD

Mali Empire

1200 AD

Yuan Dynasty

1280 AD - 1370 AD

Mansa Musa

1280 AD

Marco Polo leaves China

1300 AD

Ibn Battuta

1350 AD

Ming Dynasty

1370 AD - 1650 AD

Yi/Choson Dynasty

1400 AD - 1910 AD

Age of Warring States in Japan

1400 AD

King Sejong rules Korea

1420 AD

Songhai Empire

1430 AD - 1600 AD

Slave Trade starts in Africa

1500 AD

Mughal Empire

1520 AD

Toyotomi Hideyoshi becomes regent

1580 AD

Japan Invades Korea

1590 AD

East India Company

1600 AD

Manchus invade Korea

1600 AD

Tokugawa Ieyasu becomes shogun

1600 AD

Japan closes ports to trade

1640 AD

Qing Dynasty

1640 AD - 1911 AD

Mughal Decline

1700 AD

British rule India (EIC Monopoly)

1760 AD

Korea was forced to open to trade

1800 AD

Japan unified, Zaibatsu have control

1800 AD

Slave trade ends in Great Britain

1810 AD

Opium war in China

1840 AD

Taiping Rebellion

1850 AD

Commodore Matthew Perry goes to Japan

1853 AD

Japan signs Treaty of Kanagawa

1854 AD

Mutsuhito is emperor

1855 AD

Sepoy Rebellion in India

1857 AD

British take over India officially

1858 AD

Empress Dowager Cixi

1860 AD

Rebels forced shogun in Japan to step down, power returns to Emperor

1870 AD

Meiji Restoration

1870 AD

Berlin Conference/Scramble for Africa

1880 AD

Indian National Congress forms

1885 AD

Boxer Rebellion in China

1900 AD

Nationalism in Africa

1900 AD

Russo-Japanese War

1904 AD

Muslim League formed by Muhammed Jinnah

1906 AD

Japanese Occupation of Korea

1910 AD - 1945 AD

Civil War in China

1911 AD

African National Congress

1912 AD

WWI begins

1914 AD

Gandhi goes to India

1914 AD

End of WWI

1918 AD

Amritsar Massacre

1919 AD

Economic crisis in Japan

1920 AD

Chinese Communist Party forms

1920 AD

Sun Yat-Sen dies/Warlord Period Begins

1924 AD

Chiang Kai-Shek rules China

1927 AD

Great Depression

1929 AD - 1939 AD

Salt March

1930 AD

Japan seizes Manchuria

1931 AD

Mao Zedong gains support in China

1931 AD

Long March

1934 AD

Japan launches war on China

1937 AD

WWII begins

1939 AD

US cuts off all trade with Japan/Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

1941 AD

Hiroshima + Nagasaki bombs

1945 AD

End of WWII

1945 AD

Indian Independence and Partition

1947 AD

Jawaharlal Nehru becomes Prime Minister of India

1947 AD

Muhammad Jinnah becomes leader of Pakistan

1947 AD

Korea splits into North and South

1948 AD

Kim Il Sung rules North Korea

1948 AD

Rhee Syngman rules South Korea

1948 AD

Apartheid begins in Africa

1948 AD

Muhammad Jinnah dies

1948 AD

The People's Republic of China forms

1949 AD

North Korea invades South Korea

1950 AD

Nations in Africa begin to gain independence

1950 AD