MKD: 1200-Present

Construction of the Grand Canal (Sui Dynasty)

Late 600s

Khmer Empire Founded

802

Gunpowder Invented

850

 Establishment of Neo-Confucianism

Late 1100s

Seljuk Turks Invade Abbasids

1071

Mongols Defeat the Abbasids

1258

Fall of the Song / Establishment of Yuan

1279

Ottoman Empire Founded

1299

 Ibn Battuta’s Travels

1325-1332

Mansa Musa’s Hajj

1337

Bubonic Plague Reached Europe

1348

Zheng He’s First Voyage

1405

Aztec Empire Established

1428

Fall of Constantinople

1453

Columbus’ First Voyage to New World

1492

Sikhism Established by Guru Nanak

C. 1500

95 Theses of Martin Luther

1517

First Enslaved Africans Brought to the New World

1526

Reign of Akbar (Mughal Empire)

1542-1605

Fall of the Inca Empire

1572

Ana Nzinga’s Resistance Movement

1626-1635

Shah Jahan Built the Taj Mahal

1632-1653

Tokugawa Shogunate Closed to the World

1635

Qing (Manchu) Dynasty Founded

1644

John Locke Wrote the 2nd Treatise on Government

1689

Peter the Great Built St. Petersburg

1703

Fall of the Safavid Empire

1722

Watt’s Steam Engine Invented

1769

Declaration of Independence/American Revolution began

1776

French Rev Begins / Declaration of the Rights of Man / Dec. Of Rights of Woman

1789

Haitian Independence

1804

Simon Bolivar Wrote the Letter from Jamaica

1815

Opium Wars

1839

Russian Serfs Freed

1861

Sepoy Mutiny/Establishment of British Raj

1857

Meiji Restoration

1868

Brazil Abolished Slavery

1888

Charles Darwin’s Origins of Species Published/Marx/Engels Wrote the Communist Manifesto

1848

Berlin Conference

1884-5

Fall of Ottoman Empire / Turkey established

1923

Chinese Communist Revolution

1949

Beginning of WWI

1914

Armenian Genocide

1915-1917

Russian Revolution

1917

Mandate System Established by the League of Nations

1919

Beginning of WWII

1939

Holocaust

1941-1945

First Atomic Bomb / start of Cold War

1945

Partition of India

1947

Sukarno Established the Non-Aligned Movement

1955

Polio Vaccine Invented

1955

Cuban Missile Crisis

1962

Breakup of the USSR

1989

Fall of Apartheid in South Africa

1994

World Trade Organization Established

1995