AP World

PRE-WORLD and PERIOD 1

600-1400

1600 BCE

development of Judaism in the Fertile Crescent

470-430 BCE

Golden Age of Athens

332-323 BCE

Alexander the Great

1st century CE

Christianity begins in the Roman Empire

180 CE

End of the Pax Romana

476 CE

Fall of Western Roman Empire

527-565 CE

Reign of Justinian (Byzantine Empire)

7th century CE

Islam develops in Saudi Arabia

1054 CE

Eastern and Western Church Schism (split)

1095 CE

the Crusades begin

1258 CE

Mongols sack Baghdad

1271 - 1295 CE

Marco Polo's Travels

1324 CE

Mansa Musa's pilgrimage (hajj) from Mali to Mecca

1347 - 1348 CE

Bubonic Plague in Europe

c.1350 CE

Renaissance begins

1337-1453 CE

The Hundred Years’ War

1405 - 1433 CE

Zheng He's voyages

PERIOD 2

1400

1453 CE

Ottomans seized Constantinople

1492 CE

Columbus sailed to Americas

1502 CE

First slaves to the Americas

1517 CE

Martin Luther/95 Theses (Protestant Reformation)

1521 CE

Cortez conquered the Aztecs

1533 CE

Pizarro conquered the Incas

1534 CE

The Act of Supremacy (Anglican Reformation)

1603 CE

Tokugawa Shogunate begins in Japan

1600-1690 CE

Scientific Revolution

1618 - 1648 CE

Thirty Years War (Wars of Religion)

1642-1649 CE

The English Civil War

1689 CE

The Glorious Revolution in England

18th century

The Enlightenment

PERIOD 3

1750

1750s CE

Industrialization begins in England

1756 - 1763 CE

Seven Years' War

1776 CE

Declaration of Independence

1789 CE

French Revolution begins

1798 CE

Malthus writes about his fears

1799 CE

Napoleon overthrows France’s Directory

1804 CE

Haitian Independence

1815 CE

Fall of Napoleon

1839 - 1860s CE

Opium Wars in China

1848 CE

Communist Manifesto (Marx & Engels)

1857 CE

Sepoy Mutiny in India

1885 CE

Berlin Conference (Scramble for Africa)

PERIOD 4

1900-present

1905 CE

Russo-Japanese War

1910 - 1920 CE

Mexican Revolution

1911 CE

Chinese Revolution

1914 - 1918 CE

World War I

1915 CE

Armenian Genocide

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 & 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

1979 CE

Iranian Revolution

1986 CE

Chernobyl disaster in USSR

1989 CE

Fall of Berlin Wall

1991 CE

Fall of USSR/First Gulf War

1992 CE

creation of the European Union as per the Maastricht Treaty

2001 CE

9/11 Terror Attacks on US