AP World History Master Dates Flashcards

Flashcards of key dates for AP World History

618-907

Tang Dynasty in China

960-1279

Song Dynasty in China

1054

Schism between the Western (Catholic) and the Eastern (Orthodox) Christian Churches

1096-1204

Crusades (1-4)

1000-1500

Swahili Civilization along East African Coast

1211

Mongol Conquests start, continue throughout the 13th century

1215

Magna Carta

1206

Delhi Sultanate established in India

1258

Baghdad destroyed by the Mongols, end to the Abbasid Caliphate

1271-1368

Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty in China

1347-1352

Black Death in Europe

1350s

Ibn Battuta's travels across the World of Dar-Al-Islam

1368-1644

Ming Dynasty in China

1370-1405

Conquests of Timur in Central Asia

Late 1300s to late 1400s

Italian Renaissance

1400s-1520

Aztec Empire

1400s-1533

Inca Empire

1405-1433

Zheng He's voyages in the Indian Ocean

1415

Portuguese exploration of West African Coast starts

1453

Ottomans capture Constantinople. Fall of the Byzantine Empire

1454

Gutenberg Bible printed in Europe

1480

Russia emerges from Mongol rule

1492

Christian reconquest of Spain is completed (Reconquista). End of Muslim Spain period, Al-Andalus.

1494

Treaty of Tordesillas divides the Americas between Spain and Portugal

1517

Protestant Reformation begins

Early 1500s - mid 1700s

Safavid (Iran) and Mughal (India) Empires.

1601-1602

British and Dutch East India companies established

1603-1868

Tokugawa Shogunate rules Japan

1613-1917

Romanov dynasty in Russia

1600s

Russian conquest of Siberia

1644-1911

Qing (Manchu) Dynasty in China

1740-1818

Wahhabi movement of Islamic reform in Arabia

1750s

Beginning of the Industrial revolution in England

1700s

Peak of transatlantic slave trade

1700s

European Enlightenment

1750

British begin the takeover of India

1776

Declaration of the Independence, American Revolution

1789-1799

French Revolution

1799-1814

Reign of Napoleon

1791-1804

Haitian Revolution

1807

End of slave trade in the British Empire

1810-1825

Independence Revolutions in Latin America

1839-1842

Opium Wars in China

1839-1876

Tanzimat Era in the Ottoman Empire

1848

Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

1850-1864

Taiping Rebellion in China

1857

Sepoy Rebellion in India

1861

Abolition of serfdom in Russia

1861-1865

Civil War and abolition of slavery in the United States

1868

Meiji Restoration in Japan

1869

Suez Canal

1870-1871

Unification of Italy and Germany

1884-1885

Berlin Conference led to the Scramble for Africa

1898-1901

Boxer Rebellion in China

1899-1902

Boer War in South Africa

1911

Revolution in China, end of imperial rule

1912

Founding of African National Congress (ANC)

1914

Panama Canal

1914-1918

WWI

1917

Bolshevik (Communist) Revolution in Russia, end of imperial rule

1920

Women gain voting rights in the United States

1929

Beginning of the Great Depression

1939-1945

WWII

1946-1991

Cold War

1948-1952

Marshall Plan for Europe

1947

Independence of India (creation of Pakistan)

1948

Creation of Israel

1949

Communists come to power in China

1957-1975

Independence of African countries

1959

Cuban revolution

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

1989

Fall of the Berlin Wall, End of Cold War

1991

Dissolution of the Soviet Union