WHAP - All Dates (1250-Modern)

Chinggis Khan begins Mongol invasion

1206

Mongols sack Baghdad, end of Abbasid Caliphate

1258

Marco Polo’s Travels

1271-1295

Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty in China

1279-1368

Mansa Musa Hajj

1324

Travels of Ibn Battuta

1325-1349

Bubonic plague in Europe

1347-1348

Ming Dynasty in China

1368-1644

Zheng He’s Voyages

1405-1433

Rise of Inca Empire

1438

Ottomans capture Constantinople

1453

Printing Press in Europe (Gutenberg)

1450s

Height of Aztec Empire

1480s

Dias Rounds Cape of Good Hope

1488

Columbus/Reconquista of Spain

1492

1st African Slaves to the Americas

1502

Martin Luther/Protestant Reformation

1517

Cortez conquered the Aztecs

1521

1st unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna

1529

Discovery of silver at Potosi

1545

Battle of Lepanto (Ottoman naval defeat)

1571

1st Manilla Galeon (global trade)

1571

Spanish Armada

1588

Tokugawa Shogunate begins

1600

Foundation of Jamestown

1607

30 Years War

1618-1648

End of Ming/beg of Qing Dynasty

1644

Cape town colony founded (Dutch)

1653

2nd unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna

1683

Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights

1689

7 Years War (French & Indian War)

1756-1763

Pizzaro toppled Incas

1533

1756-1763

7 Years War (French & Indian War)

1767

Invention of the Spinning Jenny (using machines to manufacture)

1776

Declaration of Independence

1776

Smith writes Wealth of Nations

1789

French Revolution begins

1798

Jenner’s smallpox vaccine

1804

Haitian independence

1807

British abolish Trans-Atlantic slave trade

1807-1808

Janissary Revolt

1815

Congress of Vienna

1820s

Independence in Latin America

1839

1st Opium War in China

1839-1878

Tanzimat Reforms

1848

Marx & Engles’ The Communist Manifesto

1848-1849

European Revolutions

1853

Commodore Perry opens Japan

1857

Sepoy Mutiny/Rebellion

1861

End of Russian serfdom

1861-1865

U.S. Civil War

1861-1870

Italian Unification

1863

U.S. Emancipation Proclamation

1871

German Unification

1885

Berlin Conference

1893

New Zealand grants women suffrage

1896

Battle of Adowa (Ethiopians defeat Italians)

1898

Spanish-American War (US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico)

1899 -1902

Boer War (British gain control of S Africa)

1905

Russo-Japanese War

1910-1920

Mexican Revolution

1911

Chinese Revolution (end of Qing)

1914-1918

World War I

1917 March

Russian Revolution (Czar abdicates)

1917 Oct/Nov

Russian Revolution (Communist/Bolshevik)

1918 Nov

Armistice (end of WWI fighting)

1919

Treaty of Versailles

1929

Stock market crash

1931

Japanese invasion of Manchuria

1935

Italian invasion of Ethiopia

1937

Japanese invasion of (rest of) China (rape of Nanking)

1939

German blitzkrieg in Poland

1941

Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII

1945 Feb

Yalta Conference (beg of Cold War?)

1945 Aug

Hiroshima/Nagasaki

1945 Sept

End of WWII (Japan surrenders)

1947 June

Truman Doctrine (“official” declaration of Cold War)

1947 Aug

Independence & Partition of India

1948

Birth of Israel

1948-49

Berlin Blockade/Airlift

1949 Apr

NATO founded

1949 Oct

Chinese Communist Revolution

1950-1953

Korean War

1954

Battle of Dien Bien Phu (Vietnam expels France)

1955

Bandung Conference (Non-Aligned Nations)

1956 Feb

Krushchev begins de-Stalinization

1956 Fall

Nationalization of the Suez Canal

1957

Sputnik

1959

Cuban Revolution (Fidel Castro)

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

1966-1967

Chinese Cultural Revolution

1967

6- Day War

1973

Yom Kippur War/Opec Oil Embargo

1979

Iranian Revolution

1979

China begins “Socialist Market Economy Reforms” (Deng Xiaoping)

1987

1st Palestinian Intifada

1989 June

Tiananmen Square

1989 Nov

Fall of Berlin Wall

1990

Namibia gains independence (last African colony)

1991 Jan

1st Persian Gulf War