All the Dates for the Massive Dates Test

 6th Century B.C.E. (aka 500s BCE)

life of Buddha, Confucius, Laozi; beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism

 333

Roman capital moved to Constantinople

 4th C

Beginning of Trans‑Saharan Trade Routes

476

Fall” of Rome

527

Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire

550

Fall of Gupta Dynasty/Empire

622

Founding of Islam

 730

Printing invented in China (woodblock)

732

Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France)

c. 900

Decline of classical Maya

1054

Great Schism (Roman Catholic & Eastern Orthodox)

1066

Norman conquest of England

1095

1st Crusade

1206

Chinggis Khan begins Mongol conquests

1258

Mongols sack Baghdad; end of Abbasid caliphate

1271–1295

Marco Polo’s travels

1279–1368

Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty in China

1324

Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage/hajj

1325–1349

Travels of Ibn Battuta

1347–1348

Bubonic plague in Europe

1368–1644

Ming Dynasty

1405–1433

Zheng He’s voyages

1438

Rise of Inca Empire

1453

Ottomans capture Constantinople

1450s

Printing Press in Europe (Gutenberg)

ca 1480s

Height of Aztec Empire

1488

Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope

1492

Columbus and the Reconquista of Spain

1502

1st African Slaves to Americas

1517

Martin Luther / Protestant Reformation

1521

Cortez conquered the Aztecs

1529

1st unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna

1533

Pizarro toppled the Inca

1545

Discovery of silver at Potosí

1571 (Battle of Lepanto)

Battle of Lepanto (Ottoman naval defeat)

1571 (1st Manila Galleon)

1st Manila Galleon (global trade)

1588

Spanish Armada

1600

Battle of Sekigahara (start of Tokugawa Shogunate)

1607

Foundation of Jamestown

1618–1648

30 Years War

1644

End of Ming / beginning of Qing Dynasty

1653

Cape Town colony founded (Dutch)

1683

2nd unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna

1689

Glorious Revolution / English Bill of Rights

1756–1763

7 Years War (French & Indian War)

1767

Invention of the Spinning Jenny

1776 (Declaration of Independence)

Declaration of Independence

1776 (Wealth of Nations)

Adam Smith writes Wealth of Nations

1789

French Revolution begins

1796

Jenner’s smallpox vaccine

1804

Haitian independence

1807

British abolish Trans‑Atlantic slave trade

1807–08

Janissary Revolt

1815

Congress of Vienna

1820s

Independence in Latin America

1839

1st Opium War in China

1839–1878

Tanzimat Reforms

1848

The Communist Manifesto

1848–1849

European revolutions

1853

Commodore Perry opens Japan

1857

Sepoy Mutiny

1861

End of Russian serfdom

1861–1865

U.S. Civil War

1861–1870

Italian unification

1863

U.S. Emancipation Proclamation

1871

German unification

1885

Berlin Conference / Scramble for Africa

1893

New Zealand grants women suffrage

1896

Battle of Adwa

1898

Spanish‑American War

1899–1902

Boer War

1750–1900

Industrial Revolution

1935

Italian invasion of Ethiopia

1937

Japanese invasion of China (Rape of Nanking)

1939

German blitzkrieg in Poland

1941

Pearl Harbor / U.S. enters WWII

1945 Feb

Yalta Conference

1945 Aug

Hiroshima / Nagasaki

1945 Sept

End of WWII

1947 June

Truman Doctrine

1947 Aug

Independence & partition of India

1948

Birth of Israel

1948–49

Berlin Blockade / Airlift

1949 Apr

NATO founded

1949 Oct

Chinese Communist Revolution

1950–1953

Korean War

1954

Vietnam expels France

1955

Bandung Conference

Feb 1956

Khrushchev begins de‑Stalinization

Fall 1956

Nationalization of Suez Canal

1957

Sputnik

1959

Cuban Revolution

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

1966–1976

Chinese Cultural Revolution

1967

Six‑Day War

1973

Yom Kippur War / OPEC Oil Embargo

1979 (Iranian Revolution)

Iranian Revolution

1979 (China reforms)

China begins “Socialist Market Economy” reforms

1987

1st Palestinian Intifada

1989 June

Tiananmen Square