AP World 44 Dates

1258 CE

Mongols sack Baghdad

1271-1295 CE

Marco Polo’s Travels

1324

Mansa Musa’s pilgrimageto Mecca, showcasing his wealth.

1325-1349

Ibn Battuta’s Travelsacross Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, documenting cultures and traditions.

1348

Bubonic Plague Reaches Europe

1405-1433

Zheng He’s voyagesto establish trade links and spread Chinese influence.

1453

Ottomans seized Constantinople

1492

C.Columbus sailed to Americas

1502

First slaves to Americas

1517

Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses

1521

Cortes conquered the Aztec Empire

1533

Fall of the Inca Empire/conquered by Pizarro

1618-1648

The Thirty Years' War in Europe, a religious and political conflict primarily involving Catholics and Protestants.

1689

Glorious Revolution in England

1750’s

Period of the Industrial Revolution's beginnings in Britain, marked by significant technological advancements.

1756-1763

The Seven Years' War, a global conflict that involved most of the great powers and was fought in Europe, North America, and India.

1776

Year of the Declaration of Independence, when America declared its independence from Britain.

1789

Year the French Revolution began, marked by the storming of the Bastille and the rise of Enlightenment ideas.

1804

Year of the Haitian Revolution's successful conclusion, leading to Haiti's independence, and also the year Napoleon Bonaparte declared himself Emperor of the French.

1839-1860’s

Opium Wars in China

1848

Communist Manifesto (Marx & Engels)

1857

Year of the Indian Rebellion against British rule, also known as the Sepoy Mutiny.

1884-1885

Berlin Conference on Africa

1905

Russo-Japanese War

1910-1920

Mexican Revolution

1911

Chinese Revolution and fall of Qing dynasty

1914-1918

World War I

1917

Russian Revolution

1929

Start of Great Depression

1931

Japanese invasion of Manchuria

1939

German Invasion of Poland

1945

End of WWII

1947

Partition of India and Pakistan

1948

Creation of state of Israel

1949

Mao Zedong comes to power in China

1950-1953

Korean War

1954

Vietnam defeats France

1959

Cuban Revolution

1961-2

Cuban Missile Crisis

1967

Chinese Cultural Revolution

1979

Iranian Revolution

1989

fall of Berlin Wall

1991

Fall of USSR/First Gulf War

2001

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