Major World Events

Feudalism

1000-1300

Byzantine Empire

330-1453

Italian City States

1000-1500

Fall of Constantinople to Turks

1453

Golden Horde

1240-1480

Ghana Empire

300-1240

Mali Empire

1230-1645

Swahili Trade Cities

1200-1500

Songhai Empire

1430-1591

Ilkhanate of Persia

1256-1335

Ottoman Empire

1299-1922

Timur

1336-1405

Song Dynasty

960-1279

Yuan Mongol Dynasty

1271-1368

Ming Dynasty

1368-1644

Japanese Feudalism

1185-1868

Discovery of Americas

1492

African Slave Trade

1480-1860

Fall of the Aztec Empire

1519-1521

Fall of the Inca Empire

1532-1533

Spanish/Portuguese “Viceroyalties”

1535-early 19th century

Encomienda System

1502-late 16th/17th century

Jamestown Colony

1607-1699

English and French colonial activity

early 1600s-1763

Reconquista

718-1492

Renaissance

14th to 17th century

Spanish Inquisition

1478-1834

Protestant Reformation

1517

Commercial Reformation

Late 13th century-early 18th century

Russian Czars

1547-1917

Spanish Armada

1588

Serf Labor

Early Middle Ages-mid 19th century

Romanov Dynasty

1613-1917

Louis XIV

1643-1715

Peter the Great

1672-1725

Glorious Revolution

1688-1689

Enlightenment

Late 17th century-1815

Portuguese Slave Trade

1501-1866

Suleiman the Magnificent

1520-1566

Mughal Empire

1526-1857

English Trade Concessions

Mid 19th-early 20th century

Sikh States

Early 18th century-1849

Magellan Claims Philippines

1521

Portuguese in Nagasaki

1571-1639

Portuguese Macao

1557-1999

Portuguese Expelled from Nagasaki

1639

Dutch East Indies

1800-1949

Qing/Manchu Dynasty

1644-1912

French and Indian War (Seven Years War)

1754-1763

American Revolution

1765-1783

Haitian Revolution

1791-1804

Mexican Independence

1810-1821

Industrial Revolution (America)

1790-early 20th century

Suffrage Movement

1848-1920

Mexican-American War

1846-1848

Civil War and Abolition

1861-1865

Spanish-American War

1898

Industrial Revolution (Europe)

1760-1840

Watt’s Steam Engine

1769

French Revolution

1789-1799

Congress of Vienna

1814-1815

Communist Manifesto

1848

Crimean War

1853-1856

Emancipation of Serfs

1861

Italian Unification

1861

German Unification

1871

Slave Trade Abolished (in Africa)

19th Century

British South Africa

1806-1910

Greece Independence

1821-1832

Egypt Independence

1922

French Algeria

1830-1962

Suez Canal

1869

Balkan Independence

19th Century

British in Bengal

1757-1857

Sepoy Revolt

1857-1858

Indian National Congress

1885

Opium Wars

1839-1842 and 1856-1860

Perry in Japan

1853

French Indochina

1858-1954

Meiji Restoration

1868

Sino-Japanese War

1894-1895

Boxer Rebellion

1899-1901

Assembly Line

20th century

U.S. Isolationism

Early 20th century

Women’s Suffrage

Late 19th to early 20th century

Pearl Harbor

1941

NATO

1949

Castro in Cuba

1959

Cuban Missile Crisis

1962

Civil Rights

1950s-1960s

NAFTA

1994

9/11 Attacks

2001

U.S.-Iraq War

2003

Revolution in Russia

1917

Bolshevik Revolution

1917

Rise of Fascism

Early 20th century

Lenin in Soviet Union

1917-1924

Stalin in Soviet Union

1924-1953

Nazi Germany

1933-1945

USSR Detonates Bomb

1949