Chrono

Hinduism begins to develop

Hinduism begins to develop

2300-1500 BCE

Judaism begins to develop

1500 BCE

Confucianism begins to develop

500s BCE

Buddhism begins to develop

400s BCE

Christianity begins to develop

100s CE

Islam begins to develop

600s CE

Mongol invasion of Kyivan Rus

1242

Mongol invasion of Abbasid Dynasty

1258

Mongol invasion of Song Dynasty

1271

Ming Dynasty conquers Yuan Dynasty

1368

Vatican passes the series of ‘Doctrine of Discovery’ policies

1452-1493

Ottoman Conquest of Byzantine Empire

1453

Guru Nanak begins Sikhism

1469

Spanish Reconquista ends after 700 years | technically January 2nd, 1493 is the “official” end with the taking of Granada. Competing perspectives mark it earlier.

1490s

Protestant Reformation disrupts religious rule in Europe

1517

Slave Trade begins in South America + Mughal Empire begins on the Indian subcontinent

1526

European Scientific Revolution begins

1543

Russian Empire expands eastward into Siberia

1550

T.A. Slavery begins in North America

1619

Ming Dynasty collapses as the Qing Dynasty begins

1644

Kongo Civil War weakens African resistance to Europe

1666

Glorious Revolution spurs European Enlightenment

1689

The Industrial Revolution begins in England and spreads throughout Europe and North America

1750-1910s

The failed Boxer Rebellion intensifies Euro. Imperialism in China

1900

The Xinhai Revolution brings end to Qing Dynasty and dynastic rule in China

1911

The First World War erupts and continues across globe until 1918 with the USA emerging as a superpower

1914

The Bolshevik Revolution in Russia begins as world’s first communist revolution

1917

The Treaty of Versailles formally ends the First World War

1919

Soviet Union leader Josef Stalin wages genocide against Ukraine in the Holodomor

1933

The Second World War begins in East Asia with the Japanese invasion of Nanking followed by the outbreak of war in Europe with the Nazi-German invasion of Poland

1937 + 1939

Six million Jews in Europe are murdered in the Holocaust during the course of the Second World War which ends with the U.S. Atomic Bomb droppings on Japan

1941-1945

The Founding of Israel on the once- British-occupied Palestine begins a new era of enduring ethnic conflict

1948

The Chinese Communist Revolution triumphs in victory with the Chinese Nationalist Party fleeing to Taiwan

1949

The Korean War marks a new era of Cold War-proxy wars throughout the world until collapse of Soviet Union

1950-1991

The Green Revolution begins

1960s

The Islamic Revolution in Iran begins

1979

The Digital Revolution begins with the advent of the internet

1980s

The 9/11 Terrorist Attacks set a new era of war on terror

2001

British invasion of China in Opium Wars

1838

Taiping Rebellion intensifies Qing Dynasty decline

1850

British invasion of India in Sepoy Indian Rebellion

1857

On Origin of Species opening gates to ‘Social Darwinism’

1858

Japan begins era of ‘Western Modernization’ in the form of the Meiji Restoration

1868

Berlin Conference begins the devastating era of European Imperialism in Africa

1884

‘Manifest Destiny’ ends as the USA fully take over the Pacific West Coast

1890

The 1st  Sino - Japanese War begins era of Japanese imperialism in China

1895