Key Historical Events from 600 to 2001

Flashcards detailing key historical events and their significance from 600 to 2001.

Founding of Islam

622

Battle of Tours

732

Song Dynasty

960-1279

Great Schism in Christian Church

1054

Battle of Manzikert

1071

First Crusade

1095

Chinggis Khan begins Mongol conquests

1206

Magna Carta

1215

Mongols sack Baghdad

1258

Marco Polo’s travels

1271-1295

Yuan Dynasty

1279-1368

Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage

1324

Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan founded

1325

Ibn Battuta’s travels

1325-1349

Black Death in Europe

1347-48

Ming Dynasty

1368-1644

Zheng He’s voyages

1405-1433

Ottomans capture Constantinople

1453

Gutenberg printing press

1454

Sikh religion founded

1469

Columbus sails to the Americas

1492

Reconquista of Spain

1492

Vasco da Gama sails to India

1497

Martin Luther 95 Theses

1517

First slave ships to the Caribbean plantations

1517

Cortez conquers Aztecs

1521

Mughal Empire established

1526-1857

Pizarro topples the Inca

1533

Battle of Sekigahara

1600

First slave ships to North America

1619

Qing Dynasty replaces Ming

1644-1911

Beginning of Industrial Revolution

1750

Declaration of Independence

1776

French Revolution begins

1789

Haitian independence

1804

Janissary revolt

1807-08

British abolish Trans-Atlantic slave trade

1807

Independence of Latin America

1820s

First Opium War in China

1839

Tanzimat Reforms

1839-1878

Taiping Rebellion

1850-64

Commodore Matthew Perry opens Japan

1853

Sepoy Mutiny

1857

British Raj in India

1857-1947

Meiji Restoration

1868-89

Berlin Conference

1885

Russo-Japanese War

1905

Mexican Revolution

1910-20

Chinese Revolution

1911

World War I

1914-18

Russian Revolution

1917

Treaty of Versailles

1919

Stock market crash

1929

Salt March

1930

World War II

1939-45

Independence and partition of India

1947

Chinese Communist Revolution

1949

Korean War

1950-53

Vietnam expels France

1954

Cuban Revolution

1959

Cultural Revolution in China

1966-76

Iranian Revolution

1979

Fall of Berlin Wall

1989

End of the Soviet Union

1991

Genocide in Rwanda

1994

First all-race election in South Africa

1994

9/11 attacks

2001