WHAP Dates to know

Dates

Pre-Period 1:

476 CE

Fall of Western Roman Empire

622

Hijrah- Beginning of Islamic Calendar

732

Battle of Tours (End of Umayyad Expansion---up to the edge of France)

751

Battle of Talas River (Abbasid Defeat of Tang Dynasty)

755-763

An Lushan Rebellion

9th Century

Gun powder invented in Chinia

1095-1271

Crusades

Period 1:

1206

Genghis Khan unifies the Mongols

1215

Magna Carta

1324

Mansa Musa’s Hajj

1346-1353

Bubonic Plague

14th-17th century

Renaissance

1405-1433

Zheng He’s 7 Voyages

1428

Aztec Triple Alliance

1438

Rise of Incas

Period 2:

1453

Ottomans Sack Constantinople

1450s

Printing Press in Europe

1492

Columbus/Reconquista of Spain

1502

1st African Slaves in Americas

1517

Martin Luther/Protestant Reformation

1519-1521

Cortez v Aztecs

1533

Pizarro v Incas

1545

Discovery of Silver at Potosi

1600/1603

Battle of Sekigahara/Beginning of Tokugawa Shogunate

1607

Jamestown

1644-1911

Qing Dynasty

1653

Capetown Colony (Dutch)

1689

Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights

1744

Saud-Wahab Pact

Period 3:

1756-1763

7 Years War

1760

Industrial Revolution

1776

Dec of Independence

1776

Adam Smith Publishes the Wealth of Nations

1789

French Revolution begins

1796

Small Pox Vaccine

1804

Haitian Independence

1807

British Abolition of Slave trade

1820s

Independence of Latin America

1839

1st Opium War in China

1839-1878

Tanzimat Reforms

1848

Marx and Engels Publish the Communist Manifesto/Seneca Falls Convention

1850-1864

Taiping Rebellion

1857

Sepoy Rebellion

1861

Russia end serfdom

1861-1895

Self-Strengthening Movement

1865

Young Ottoman Movement Est.

1868

Meiji Restoration

1869

Suez Canal Opens/Transcontinental railroad complete

1884-1885

Berlin Conference

1896

Battle of Adwa

1898

Spanish American War

1899-1901

Boxer Rebellion

1899-1902

Second Boer War

Period 4:

1901

White Australia Policy

1905

Russian Revolution

1908

Young Turk Revolution

1914-1918

WW1

1917-1922

Russian (Bolshevik) Revolution and Civil War

1928

Start of the Five-Year Plans

1929-1939

Great Depression

1939-1945

WW2

1949

People’s Republic of China is formed (Mao Zedong)

1950-1960s

Green Revolution

1945/47-1991

Cold War

1947

Partition of India

1948

Creation of Israel

1950-1953

Korean War

1955

Bandung Conference

1955-1975

Vietnam War

1958-1962

Great Leap Forward

1961-1989

Berlin Wall

1966-1976

Cultural Revolution in China

1968

Year of Protests

1979

Iranian Revolution

1979-1989

Soviet-Afghan War

1989

Tiananmen Square Massacre and the Miracle Year

1991-2001

Yugoslav Wars

2001

9/11

2008

Great Recession

2016

Brexit