Dates of Doom

beginning of Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism (life of Confucius/ Buddha/ Laozi)

6th C. BCE

Silk Road Trade begins

130 BCE

Beginning of Christianity

32 CE

Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade

4th C. CE

Justinian rule (Byzantine Empire)

527 CE

Founding of Islam

622 CE

Printing invented in China

c. 730

Decline of classical Maya

c. 900

Great Schism in Christian Church (Latin Western/Roman Catholic Church & Eastern Orthodox Church)

1054

Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks over Byzantine/showed Byz. weakness)

1071

4th Crusade ends

1204

Chinggis (Ghengis) Khan begins Mongol conquests

1206

Delhi Sultanate

1206-1526

Magna Carta signed by King John at Runnymede

1215

Mongols sack Baghdad/end of Abbasid caliphate

1258

Marco Polo's travels

1271-1295

Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty in China

1279-1368

Mansa Musa's pilgrimage/hajj

1324

travels of Ibn Battuta

1325-1349

(height of) Bubonic plague in Europe

1347-1348

Ming Dynasty

1368-1644

Zheng He's 7 voyages

1405-1433

Rise of the Inca Empire

1438

Printing Press in Europe (Gutenberg)

1450s

End of Hundred Years' War (which was a series of conflicts over 116 years between England and France over succession to the French throne; FR over all of French territory except Calais)

1453

Fall of Constantinople (Ottomans capture Constantinople/start of Ottoman Empire)

1453

Height of Aztec Empire

c. 1480s

Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope

1488

Columbus "discovers" the New World

1492

Reconquista of Spain (completed)

1492

Safavid Dynasty

1501-1736

1st African Slaves to Americas

1502

Protestant Reformation (95 theses/Martin Luther)

1517

Cortez started to conquer the Aztecs

1519

Magellan began to circumnavigate the Earth

1521

Mughal Empire (but power greatly diminished in early 18th century after Aurangzeb's death)

1526-1858

1st unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna

1529

Pizarro topples the Inca

1533

Discovery of silver at Potosi/ start of Counter-Reformation, which lasts for just over 100 years

1545

Battle of Lepanto (Ottoman naval defeat/ends Ottoman expansion)

1571

1st Manila Galleon (global trade of silver)

1571

Spanish Armada (QE1st/ England a world-class power & introduced effective long-range weapons into naval warfare/ ended era of boarding and close-quarter fighting)

1588

End of Songhai Empire (which had begun in late 14th century)

1591

Edict of Nantes - religious toleration of French Calvinists (Hugeonots)

1598

Battle of Sekigahara (beg. of Tokugawa Shogunate)

1600

Founding of Jamestown

1607

30 Years War

1618-1648

Qing Dynasty

1644-1911

Cape Town Colony founded (Dutch)

1653

Peter the Great reign of Russia

1682-1725

2nd unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna (Mehmet IV) (marks beg. of end of Ottoman in Eastern Europe)

1683

Louis XIV revoked Edict of Nantes

1685

Glorious Revolution/ English Bill of Rights

1689

industrial revolution begins - steam locomotive, textiles,etc

c. 1750

7 years war/ French and Indian War

1756-1763

Invention of the Spinning Jenny: man-using machines

1767

The American Declaration of Independence/ American Revolution

1776

French Revolution/ The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

1789

Olympe de Gouges's "Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen"

1791

Mary Wollstonecraft's "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"

1792

Edward Jenner's smallpox vaccination: the first real breakthrough in combating infectious diseases

1796

Haitian Independence

1804

British abolition of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade

1807

Janissary Revolt

1807-1808

Creole Revolutions including first Mexican Revolution

1820s

Metternich hosts Congress of Vienna (after Battle of Waterloo: the Napoleonic Empire ends)

1815

Erie Canal opens (rise of NYC and links East Coast with mid-West in U.S.)

1825

1st Opium War between China and England

1839

Tanzimat Reforms

1839-1878

Treaty of Nanking which ends the Opium War

1842

Marx and Engels wrote Communist Manifesto/ The resolutions passed at the Seneca Falls Conference

1848

European revolutions

1848-1849

Taiping Rebellion (Chinese Civil War) (led initially by Hong Xiuquan)

1850-1864

Commodore Perry opens Japan

1853

Treaty of Kanagawa

1854

Sepoy Mutiny in India

1857

end of Russian serfdom

1861

U.S. Civil War

1861-1865

Emancipation Proclamation issued in U.S.

1863

Meiji Restoration

1868

Suez Canal opens

1869

Second Industrial Revolution begins (oil, steel, electricity, chemicals)/ mass production via mechanization and assembly line

C. 1870

German unification

1871

Berlin Conference

1885

Brazil ends slavery (last in the Americas)

1888

New Zealand is the first to award women suffrage; other nations in the Commonwealth soon follow

1893

Sino-Japanese War

1894-1895

Battle of Adowa- Ethiopians fend off Italians

1896

Spanish-American War- Spain loses colonies (Cuba, Guam , Puerto Rico, and the Philippines) to the U.S.

1898

Boxer Rebellion in China

1899-1901

Boer War- Dutch under British rule in South Africa

1899-1902

Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations"

1776

The resolutions passed at the Seneca Falls Conference

1848

Italian unification

1861

Benz develops first petrol-driven car

1885

Russo-Japanese war

1904-1905

Einstein's theory of special relativity published

1905

Mexican Revolution (Diaz overthrown 1910)

1910-1920

Chinese Revolution (end of Qing/beginning of Republic)

1911

Panama Canal opened

1914