DATES ALL!

late 600s

construction of grand canal (sui dynasty)

802

khmer empire founded

850

gunpowder invented

late 1100s

establishment of neo-confucianism

1071

seljuk turks invade abbasids

1258

mongols defeat abbasids

1279

fall of song establishment of yuan

1299

ottoman empire founded

1325-1332

ibn battutas travels

1337

mansa musas hajj

1348

bubonic plague reached europe

1405

zheng he’s first voyage

1428

aztec empire founded

1453

fall of constantinople

1492

columbus first voyage to new world

1500

sikhism established by guru nanak

1517

95 theses of martin luther

1526

first slaves (africans) brought to new world

1542-1604

reign of akbar

1572

fall of inca

1626-35

ana nzingas resistance movement

1632-53

shah jahan built taj mahal

1635

tokugawa shogunate closed 2 world

1644

qing dynasty founded

1689

john locke wrote 2nd treatise on government

1703

peter the great built st petersburg

1722

safavids fall

1769

steam engine

1789

french revolution rights of man and woman

1804

haitian indep

1815

simon boliviar letter 2 jamaica

1839

opium wars

marx communist manifesto

1848

1861

russian serfs freed

1857

sepoy mutiny

1868

meiji

1859

public of darwin’s on origins of species

1884-5

berlin conference

1888

brazil abolished slavery

1923

ottomans fall turkey established

1949

chinese communist rev

1914

beginning of WWI

1915-17

armenian genocide

1917

russian revolution

1919

mandate system established

1939

beginning of wwII

1941-45

holocaust

1945

first atomic bomb start of cold war

1947

partition of indi

1955

sukarno non aligned movement

1955

polio vaccine invented

1962

cuban missle crisis

1991

breakup of ussr

1994

fall of apartheid

1995

world trade org established