APWH DATES + TIME PERIODS

PERIOD 1: 1200 to 1450

Expansion and Intensification of Communication and Exchange Networks

622

Founding of Islam

732

Battle of Tours (end of Muslim advancement in Europe; Muslim power in Europe limited to Spain)

1054

Great Schism (RCC & EOC)

1095

1st Crusade

1258

Mongols sack Baghdad and murder the last Abbasid Caliphate (marks the start of the Muslim world's fragmentation into multiple states and empires)

1271-1295

Marco Polo's travels

1324

Mansa Musa's pilgrimage

1325-1349

travels of Ibn Battuta

1347-1348

Bubonic plague in Europe

1405-1433

Zheng He's voyages

PERIOD 2: 1450 to 1750

Globalizing Networks of Communication and Exchange

1453

Ottomans capture Constantinople

1492

Columbus / Reconquista of Spain

1498

Vasco de Gama rounded Cape of Good Hope

1502

1st Slaves to Americas

1517

Martin Luther / 95 Theses

1523

Cortez conquered the Aztecs

1532

Pizarro toppled the Inca

1571

Battle of Lepanto (naval defeat of Ottomans by a coalition of European Catholic states) 1588 - defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British

1600

Battle of Sekigahara - Tokugawa Shogunate unifies Japan

1607

Jamestown settled

1683

unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna

1689

Glorious Revolution / English Bill of Rights

PERIOD 3: 1750 to 1900

Industrialization and Global Capitalism

1750

Industrial Revolution begins in Britain

1756

1763 - 7 Years War / French and Indian War (first global war)

1776

American Declaration of Independence

1789

French Revolution begins

1804

Haitian independence

1815

Congress of Vienna/defeat of Napoleon

1820s

Independence in Latin America

1839

1st Opium War in China

1848

Publication of the Communist Manifesto; Seneca Falls Convention

1853

Commodore Perry opens Japan

1857

Indian Rebellion (Sepoy Mutiny)

1861

End of Russian serfdom

1884

Berlin Conference - division of Africa

1899

Boer War - British in control of South Africa

Period 4: 1900-2001

Science and the Environment

1905

Russo-Japanese war

1911

Chinese Revolution led by Sun Yatsen (Qing overthrown)

1914

Start of World War I

1917

Russian Revolution (Bolshevik Revolution)

1917

Balfour Declaration

1929

Great Depression begins

1933

Nazis comes to power in Germany

1939

Start of World War II

1945

U.S. drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan

1945

Start of the Cold War

1947

Independence and partition of India

1949

Chinese Communist Revolution

1979

Islamic Revolution in Iran

1989-1991

End of the Cold War

1994

End of Apartheid in South Africa

2001

Attacks on the World Trade Center, NYC

960-1279

Song Dynasty

1279-1368

Yuan Dynasty

1368-1677

Ming Dynasty

1644-1911

Qing Dynasty