AP World History Modern Timeline

Agricultural Revolution

10,000

Council of Nicea

325

Fall of Western Rome

476

Abbasid Caliphate

*750-1258

Battle of Tours

732

Death of the Prophet Muhammad

632

Crusades

1095-1492

Genghis Khan rules

1206-1227

Mongols sack Baghdad, which was the end of the Abbasid Caliphate

1258

Failed Mongol invasion of Japan

1271-1285

Marco Polo's travels

1271-1295

Peak of Mongol rule and Pax Mongolica on the Silk Roads

1279

Yuan Dynasty in China (Mongol rule)

1279-1368

Ottoman Empire

1300-1923

Italian Renaissance

1330-1600

Mansa Musa’s Pilgrimage

1324

Tenochitlan founded

1325

Ibn Battuta's travels

1325-1354

Black Death breaks out in China

1346

Black Death in Europe

1347-1388

Ming Dynasty

1368-1644

Zheng He's voyages (1427)

1405-1433

Aztec Empire

1428-1521

Inca Empire

1438-1533

Printing Press invented

1440

Ottoman conquest of Constantinople

1453

Reconquista of Spain

1492

Columbus sails to the New World

1492

Safavid Empire

1501-1722

Mughal Empire

1526-1748

Russia Empire begins

1552

Peace of Augsburg

1555

Battle of the Spanish Armada (Phillip II and Elizabeth I)

1588

The Peace of Westphalia ended the 30 Years War

1648

Protestant Reformation

1517

Song Dynasty

960-1279

The Establishment of the Holy Roman Empire

800

Start of Atlantic slave trade

1441

Portugal starts colonizing the Americas

1497

Vasco da Gama reaches India

1498

First enslaved peoples come to the Americas

1534

Nzinga Mbemba (Afonso I) rules the Kongo Empire

1509-1542

Magellan sails around the world (and dies in the Philippines)

1519-1521

France begins to colonize the Americas

1534

Discovery of silver at Potosi mine

1545

Scientific Revolution

1550-1700

Founding of Manila and beginning of global trade

1571

British East India Company founded

1600

Dutch East India Company founded

1602

Britain begins colonizing the Americas with Jamestown

1607

Taj Mahal built

1632

Dutch Boers colonize South Africa

1652

Shah Jahan dies (the guy who built the Taj Mahal) 

1666

Glorious Revolution in England

1689