Important Dates in AP World History

Flashcards of important dates and events to know for AP World History

Neolithic Revolution

8000 BCE

Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism

500s BCE

Qin unified China

221 BCE

Han Dynasty

206 BCE - 220 CE

Beginnings of Christianity

32 CE

Fall of Rome

476 CE

Birth of Muhammad (founder of Islam)

570 CE

Mongols sack Baghdad

1258 CE

Marco Polo's Travels

1271 - 1295 CE

Mansa Musa's pilgrimage

1324 CE

Ibn Battuta's Travels

1325 - 1349 CE

Bubonic Plague in Europe

1347 - 1348 CE

Zheng He's voyages

1405 - 1433 CE

Ottomans seized Constantinople

1453 CE

Columbus sailed to Americas

1492 CE

First slaves to the Americas

1502 CE

Martin Luther/95 Theses

1517 CE

Cortez conquered the Aztecs

1521 CE

Pizarro conquered the Incas

1533 CE

30 Years War

1618 - 1648 CE

Glorious Revolution

1689 CE

Industrialization begins in England

1750s CE

7 Years' War

1756 - 1763 CE

Declaration of Independence

1776 CE

French Revolution begins

1789 CE

Haitian Independence

1804 CE

Opium Wars in China

1839 - 1860s CE

Communist Manifesto (Marx & Engels)

1848 CE

Sepoy Mutiny in India

1857 CE

Berlin Conference (Scramble for Africa)

1885 CE

Russo-Japanese War

1905 CE

Mexican Revolution

1910 - 1920 CE

Chinese Revolution

1911 CE

World War I

1914 - 1918 CE

Russian Revolution

1917 CE

Start of Great Depression

1929 CE

Japanese Invasion of Manchuria

1931 CE

German invasion of Poland

1939 CE

End of WWII

1945 CE

Partition of India & Pakistan

1947 CE

Creation of state of Israel

1948 CE

Mao Zedong comes to power in China

1949 CE

Korean War

1950 - 1953 CE

Vietnam defeats France, Dien Bien Phu

1954 CE

Cuban Revolution

1959 CE

Cuban Missile Crisis

1962 CE

Chinese Cultural Revolution

1967 CE

Iranian Revolution

1979 CE

Fall of Berlin Wall

1989 CE

Fall of USSR/First Gulf War

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