Ap World History-Must Know Dates

476

Western Roman Empire falls

711

Muslims in Spain

1054

Split of Christian Church

1095

Beginning of the Crusades

c1200s

Rise of the Mongols

1258

Mongols sack Baghdad (end of Abbasid Caliphate and Golden Age)

1271-1295

Travels of Marco Polo

1324

Mansa Musa's (Mali Empire) pilgrimage (haji)

1325-1349

Travels of Ibn Battuta

1347-1348

Bubonic Plague in Europe

c1400

Renaissance begins in Western Europe

1433

End of Zheng He's Ming Dynasty voyages/Rise of the Ottomans

1438

Rise of the Incas

1756-1763

Seven Years' War/French and Indian War

c1767

Industrial Revolution begins in England

1789

French Revolution

1839-1842

Opium War in China (imperial aggression by British to reverse flow of silver into China, as part of economic policy of mercantilism)

1853

Commodore Perry opens Japan

1857

Sepoy Mutiny in India

1861

End of serfdom in Russia

1885

Berlin Conference: Imperialism / Scramble for Africa

1898

Spanish-American War: US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, and Puerto Rico

1899-1902

Boer War (British control of South Africa)

1453

Ottomans capture Constantinople (Istanbul)

1450s

Printing in Europe

1492

Columbus sailed the Ocean blue/Columbian Exchange begins/Reconquista of Spain

1502

Slaves to the Americas

1517

Protestant Reformation begins in Europe

1521

Cortez conquers the Aztecs

1533

Pizarro conquered the Incas

1571

Battle of Lepanto; Ottoman naval defeat

1588

Defeat of Spanish Armada by the British

1603

Japan unified under the Tokugawa Shogunate

1653

Cape Town colony founded by Dutch

1910-1920

Mexican Revolution: Diaz overthrown

1914-1918

WW I (Panama Canal completed in 1914)

1917

Russian Revolution

1929

Stock Market Crash: Great Depression begins

1939-1945

WW II

1947

Truman Doctrine/Cold War begins ('47 -'91)

1947

India/Pakistan partition

1948

Israel founded/Gandhi assassinated

1949

People's Republic of China established (CCP)

1959

Cuban Revolution

1979

Iranian Revolution

1989

Tiananmen Square/Fall of Berlin Wall

1991

Fall of USSR/First Gulf War

1992-1995

Genocide in Bosnia

1994

Genocide in Rwanda/first all-race elections in South Africa

2001

9/11 attacks

2003

US invades Iraq

2011

Wikileaks, 'Arab Spring' democracy