ALL DATES (85 and ur alive)

6th c. BCE

Beginning of Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism

130 BCE

Silk Road Trade begins

32 CE

Beginning of Christianity

4th C. CE

Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade

527 CE

Justinian rule (Byzantine rule)

622 CE

Founding of Islam

C. 730

Printing invented in China

C. 900

Decline of classical Maya

1054

The Great Schism

1071

Battle of Manzikert

1204

4th (final) crusade ends

1206

Genghis Khan begins Mongol conquests

1206-1526

Delhi Sultanate

1215

The Magna Carta signed

1258

Mongols sack Baghdad/end of the Abbasid Caliphate

1271-1295

Marco Polo’s travels

1279-1368

The Yuan (mongol) Dynasty

1324

Mansa Musa’s Hajj

1325-1349

Travels of Ibn Battuta

1347-1348

(heigh of0 the bubonic plague in Europe

1368-1644

Ming Dynasty

1405-1433

Zheng He’s seven voyages

1438

Rise of the Inca

1450s

Printing press in Europe (gutenberg)

1453

End of the Hundred Years War

1453

Fall of Constantinople (Ottoman capture)

C. 1480s

Height of the Aztec Empire

1488

Diaz rounds the Cape of Good Hope

1492

Columbus “discovers” the New World

1492

Reconquista of Spain

1401-1736

Safavid Dynasty

1502

1st African Slaves to the Americas

1517

Protestant Reformation (95 Theses)

1519

Cortez begins conquering the Aztecs

1521

Magellan began to circumnavigate Earth

1526-1858

Mughal Empire

1529

1st unsuccessful siege of Vienna (Ottomans)

1533

Pizarro topples the Inca

1545

Discovery of Silver at Potosi

1545

Start of Counter-Reformation

1571

Battle of Lepanto (Ottoman naval defeat)

1571

1st Manila Galleon (global trade of silver)

1588

Spanish Armada

1591

End of the Songhai empire

1598

Edict of Nantes

1600

Battle of Sekigahara

1607

Founding of Jamestown

1618-1648

30 Years War

1644-1911

Qing Dynasty

1653

Cape Town Colony founded

1682-1725

Peter the Great reign in Russia

1683

2nd unsuccessful siege of Vienna (ottoman)

1685

Louis the 14th revoked Edict of Nantes

1689

Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights

C. 1750

Industrial Revolution begins

1756-1763

7 Years War (France and England)

1767

Invention of the Spinning Jenny

1776

The American Declaration of Independence/Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations

1789

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

1791

Olympe de Gouges’ Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen

1792

Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women

1796

Edward Jenner’s Smallpox vaccine

1804

Haitian Independence

1807

British abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

1807-1808

Janissary Revolt

1820s

Creole Revolutions (+ first Mexican Revolution)

1815

Metternich hosts Congress of Vienna

1825

Erie Canal opens

1839

1st Opium War

1839-1878

Tanzimat Reforms

1842

Treaty of Naking and the end of the Opium Wars

1848

Marx and Engels write the Communist Manifesto/Seneca falls conference

1848-1849

European Revolutions

1850-1864

Taiping Rebellion

1853

Matthew Perry opens Japan

1854

Treaty of Kenagawa

1857

Sepoy Rebellion

1861

End of Russian serfdom/Italian unification

1861-1865

US Civil War

1863

Emancipation Proclamation

1868

Meiji Restoration

1869

Suez Canal

C. 1870

Second Industrial Revolution begins

1871

German unification

1885

Berlin Conference/Benz develops the first petroleum car

1888

Brazil ends slavery (last in the Americas)

1893

NZ awards women the vote (first in the world)

1894-1895

Sino Japanese War

1896

Battle of Adowa

1898

Spanish American War--Spain loses colonies

1899-1901

Boxer Rebellion

1899-1902

Boer War

1904-1905

Russo-Japanese War

1905

Einstein’s Theory of Relativity

1910-1920

Mexican Revolution

1911

Chinese revolution (end of the Qing)

1914

Panama Canal opens

1914-1918

WWI

1915-1916

Armenian Genocide

Feb/Mar 1917

Russian Revolution (czar abdicates)