AP World History: Modern -- Important Dates

1206 CE

Chinngis (Genghis) Khan coronated Mongol Emperor

1258 CE

Mongols conquer Abbasid Caliphate

1279 CE

Kublai Khan conquers Song Dynasty in China

1312-1337 CE

Mansa Musa rules in Mali

1325 CE

Mexica found Tenochtitlan as Aztec capital

1405-1433 CE

Zheng He's voyages

c. 1440 CE

Printing press in Europe

1453 CE

Ottomans take Constantinople

1492 CE

Columbus reaches the New World

1509-1542 CE

Nzinga Mbemba (Afonso I) rules of Kongo Empire

1517 CE

Martin Luther posts 95 Theses sparking Protestant Reformation

1543 CE

Nicolaus Copernicus publishes work outlining Heliocentric Universe

1556-1605 CE

Akbar the Great rules over Mughal Empire

1607 CE

British found Jamestown Settlement

1682-1725 CE

Peter the Great rules Russian Empire

1712 CE

Newcomen invents an early steam engine

1756 CE

Seven Year's War Begins

1757 CE

Battle of Plassey begins English colonization in India

1775 - 1791 CE

start of American, French, and Haitian Revolutions

1776 CE

Adam Smith publishes A Wealth of Nations

1842 CE

Treaty of Nanjing Signed ending Opium War

1848 CE

Marx and Engel publish The Communist Manifesto

1857 CE

Sepoy Mutiny in India against British

1868 CE

Meiji Restoration in Japan

1870 CE

Unifications of Germany and Italy

1880 CE

Edison granted patent for electric lamp

1898 CE

Beginning of Spanish-American War

1911 CE

Dynastic cycle ends with Chinese Revolution

1914 CE

Start of World War I

c. 1917 CE

Women's suffrage movements achieve success across Europe/US

1917 CE

Communist Revolution in Russia

1929 CE

Stock Market Crash begins Great Depression

1939 CE

Start of World War II

1945 CE

Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

c. 1950 CE

Green Revolution begins to boost agricultural output globally

1977 CE

1st Mass marketed personal computers sold

c. 1990 CE

Apartheid laws repealed in South Africa

2004 CE

Human Genome Project sequences Human DNA