WHAP Dates Era 1-3 (600-1900)

632

Rise of Islam

750

Start of Abbasid Caliphate

960

Start of the Song Dynasty in China

1095

1st Crusade

12th century

Rise of Feudalism in Japan

1206

Chinggis Khan begins Mongol conquests

1258

Mongols sack Baghdad

1271-1295

Marco Polo’s travels

1279-1368

Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty in China

1324

Mansa Musa’s pilgrammage

1320-1340

Spread of Bubonic Plague

14th and 15th century

Italian Renaissance

1400

Swahili states flourish

1405-1433

Zheng He’s Voyages

1438

Rise of Inca Empire

1453

Ottomans capture Constantinople

1480s

Height of the Aztec Empire

1498

Vasco da Gama reached India

1492

Columbus sailed the ocean blue/Reconquista of Spain

1521

Cortez conquered the Aztecs

1526

Founding of the Mughal Empire

1545

Discovery of silver at Potosí

1600

Beginning of the British East India Company

1607

Foundation of Jamestown

1640s

Beginning of Japanese isolation

1644

End of Ming/Beginning of Qing Dynasty

1652

Dutch Boers colonize South Africa

1683

Unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna

18th century

The Enlightenment

1756-1763

7 Years War

1767

Invention of the Spinning Jenny (using machines to manufacture)

1776

American Revolution

1789

French Revolution

1804

Haitian independence

1807

British abolition of Trans-Atlantic slave trade

1820s

Independence in Latin America

1839

1st Opium war in China

1848

Marx and Engles write Communist Manifesto

1853

Commodore Perry opens Japan

1857

Sepoy Mutiny

1861

End of Russian serfdom

1885

Berlin Conference - division of Africa

1893

New Zealand grants women suffrage

1898

Spanish-American War — US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, and Puerto Rico