bane whap dates 600-present

rise of islam

632

battle of tours

732

1st schism in the christian church

1054

norman conquest

1066

battle of manzikert

1071

1st crusade

1095

mongols sack baghdad

1258

marco polo travels

1271-1295

mansa musas pilgrimage

1324

ibn battuta travels

1325-1349

bubonic plague europe

1347-1348

end of zheng he voyage/ rise of ottomans

1433

ottomans capture constantinople

1453

dias rounded cape of good hope

1488

columbus/ spain reconquista

1492

slaves to america

1502

martin luther

1517

cortes conquered aztecs

1521

pizarro toppled inca

1533

battle of lepanto

1571

defeat of spanish armada

1588

battle of sekigahara beginning of tokugawa

1600

foundation of jamestown

1607

30 yrs war

1618-1648

unsuccessful ottoman siege of vienna

1683

glorious revolution/ english bill of rights

1689

treaty of horowitz

1699

7 years/french indian

1756-1763

american revolution/smith writes

1776

french revolution

1789

haitian independence

1804

congress of vienna

1815

independence in latin america

1820s

first opium war in china

1839

european revolutions/communist manifesto

1848

commodore perry opens japan

1853

sepoy mutiny (india revolution)

1857

end of russian serfdom/ italy unification

1861

emancipation proclamation us

1863

german unification

1871

berlin conference

1885

spanish american war

1898

boer war

1899

russo japanese war

1905

mexican revolution

1910-1920

chinese revolution

1911

ww1

1914

russian revolution

1917

treaty of versailles/ end of ww1

1919

stock market crash

1929

japanese invasion of manchuria

1931

italian invasion of ethiopia

1935

german blitzkrieg in poland

1939

pearl harbor us entry to ww2

1941

end of ww2

1945

independence and partition of india

1947

birth of israel

1948

chinese communist revolution

1949

korean war

1950-1953

vietnamese defeat french dien bien phu

1954

de stalinization/ suez

1956

cuban revolution

1959

cuban missile crisis

1962

6 day war/ chinese cultural revolution

1967

yom kippur war

1973

iranian revolution

1979

1st palestinian intifada

1987

tiananmen square/ fall of berlin wall

1989

fall of ussr/ gulf war

1991

rwanda genocide/ 1st all race elections south africa

1994

9/11 attacks

2001