History Final - DATES (copy)

2000 BCE

Early Versions of Epic of Gilgamesh

1892 - 1750 BCE

Reign of Hammurabi of Babylon

1500 BCE

Aryans established in India

1000 BCE

King David founds city of Jerusalem as Israelite capital

750 BCE

Greeks begin colonizing and develop first poleis

508 BCE

Cleisthenes creates democratic government in Athens

431-404 BCE

Peloponnesian War; Sparta wins

221-206 BCE

Qin Dynasty

44 BCE

Assassination of Julius Caesar

27 BCE - 14 CE

Augustus' reign as emperor

313 CE

Constantine legalizes Christianity

476 CE

Fall of Western Roman Empire

510 CE

Clovis established Frankish Kingdoms

632 CE

Death of Muhammad

661-750 CE

Umayyad Caliphate

732 CE

Battle of Tours

Later 700s-800s CE

Baghdad's Golden Age

800 CE

Charlemagne crowned emperor

1066 CE

William I conquers England

1215 CE

Magna Carta

1295 CE

Edward I calls the first Parliament

1307 CE

Mansa Musa begins rule in Mali

1450 CE

Gutenberg begins printed books

1517 CE

Martin Luther affixes Ninety-Five Theses in Wittenberg

1651 CE

Hobbes' The Leviathan published

1687 CE

Newton's Principia published

1833 CE

First Factory Act

1848 CE

Marx and Engels publish The Communist Manifesto

1868 CE

End of Tokugawa Shogunate; Meiji Restoration

1875 CE

Formation of SPD in Germany