AP WORLD HISTORY MUST KNOW DATES

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8000 B.C.E.

Beginnings of agriculture

3000 B.C.E.

Beginnings of Bronze Age and early civilizations

1300 B.C.E.

Iron Age

6th century B.C.E.

Life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu (Beginnings of Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism)

5th century B.C.E.

Greek Golden Age (philosophers)

323 B.C.E.

Alexander the Great

221 B.C.E.

Qin unified China

32 C.E.

Beginnings of Christianity

180 C.E.

End of Pax Romana

220 C.E.

End of Han Dynasty

333

Roman capital moved to Constantinople

4th century

Beginning of Trans

476

Fall of Rome

527

Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire

622

Founding of Islam

732

Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France)

1054

Great Schism in Christian Church (Roman Catholic & Eastern Orthodox)

1066

Norman conquest of England

1071

Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantines)

1095

First Crusade

1258

Mongols sack Baghdad

1271

1295

1324

Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage to Mecca

1325

1349

1347

1348

1433

End of Zheng He’s voyages / Rise of the Ottomans

1453

Ottomans capture Constantinople

1488

Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope

1492

Columbus sails / Reconquista of Spain

1502

First African slaves to the Americas

1517

Martin Luther posts 95 Theses

1521

Cortez conquers the Aztecs

1533

Pizarro conquers the Incas

1571

Battle of Lepanto (naval defeat of Ottomans)

1588

Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British

1600

Battle of Sekigahara (beginning of Tokugawa rule)

1607

Foundation of Jamestown

1618

1648

1683

Unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna

1689

Glorious Revolution / English Bill of Rights

1750s

Beginning of the Industrial Revolution

1756

1763

1776

American Revolution / Adam Smith writes Wealth of Nations

1789

French Revolution

1804

Haitian Independence

1815

Congress of Vienna

1820s

Independence movements in Latin America

1839

First Opium War in China

1848

European revolutions / Marx & Engels write The Communist Manifesto

1853

Commodore Perry opens Japan

1857

Sepoy Mutiny in India

1861

End of Russian serfdom / Unification of Italy

1863

Emancipation Proclamation in the United States

1871

Unification of Germany

1885

Berlin Conference (Scramble for Africa)

1898

Spanish

1899

Boer War (British control of South Africa)

1905

Russo

1910

1920

1911

Chinese Revolution (fall of Qing Dynasty)

1914

1918

1917

Russian Revolution

1919

Treaty of Versailles (end of WWI)

1929

Stock market crash / Great Depression begins

1931

Japanese invasion of Manchuria

1935

Italian invasion of Ethiopia

1939

German blitzkrieg in Poland (start of WWII)

1941

Pearl Harbor / U.S. enters WWII

1945

End of World War II

1947

Independence and partition of India

1948

Creation of the state of Israel

1949

Chinese Communist Revolution

1950

1953

1954

Vietnamese defeat the French at Dien Bien Phu

1956

De

1959

Cuban Revolution

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

1967

Six

1973

Yom Kippur War

1979

Iranian Revolution

1987

First Palestinian Intifada

1989

Tiananmen Square protests / Fall of the Berlin Wall

1991

Fall of the Soviet Union / First Gulf War

1994

Rwandan Genocide / First all

2001

9/11 Attacks