APWH Important Dates

1258 CE

Mongols sack Baghdad

1271-1295 CE

Marco polo’s travels

1324 CE

Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage

1325-1349 CE

Ibn Battuta’s travels

1347-1348 CE

Bubonic Plague in Europe

1405-1433 CE

Zheng He’s voyages

1453 CE

Ottomans seized Constantinople

1492 CE

Columbus sailed to Americas

1502 CE

First slaves to the Americas

1517 CE

Martin Luther 95 Theses

1521 CE

Cortez conquered the Aztecs

1533 CE

Pizarro conquered the Incas

1618-1648 CE

30 years war

1689 CE

Glorious Revolution

1750 CE

Industrialization begins in England

1756-1763 CE

7 Years’ war

1776 CE

Declaration of Independence

1789 CE

French Revolution begins

1804 CE

Haitian Independence

1839-1860s CE

Opium Wars in China

1848 CE

Communist Manifesto (Marx and Engels)

1857 CE

Sepoy Mutiny in India

1885 CE

Berlin Conference (Scramble for Africa)

1905 CE

Russo-Japanese War

1910-1920 CE

Mexican Revolution

1911 CE

Chinese Revolution

1914-1918 CE

World War I

1917 CE

Russian Revolution

1929 CE

Start of Great Depression

1931 CE

Japanese invasion of Manchuria

1939 CE

German invasion of Poland

1945 CE

End of WWII

1947 CE

Partition of India and Pakistan

1948 CE

Creation of state of Israel

1949 CE

Mao Zedong comes to power in China

1950-1953 CE

Korean War

1954 CE

Vietnam defeats France, Dien Bien Phu

1959 CE

Cuban revolution

1962 CE

Cuban Missile Crisis

1967 CE

Chinese Cultural Revolution

1979 CE

Iranian Revolution

1989 CE

Fall of Berlin Wall

1991 CE

Fall of USSR/First Gulf War

2001 CE

9/11 Terror attacks on US