MKD All Eras (DATES ONLY)

When did the Founding of Islam occur?

622

When was printing invented in China?

730

When did the Battle of Tours start?

732

When did the Great Schism occur?

1054

When was the Battle of Manzikert?

1071

When did the 1st crusade occur?

1095

When did Genghis Khan begin the Mongol Conquests?

1206

When did the Mongol sack of Baghdad/the end of Abbasid Caliphate happen?

1258

When did Marco Polo’s Travels occur?

1271-1295

When did the Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty exist?

1279-1368

When was Masa Musa’s pilgrimage?

1324

When did the Travels of Ibn Battuta happen?

1325-1349

When did the Bubonic Plague happen in Europe?

1347-1348

When did the Ming Dynasty exist?

1368-1644

When did Zheng He’s 7 Voyages occur?

1405-1433

When was the Rise of the Inca Empire?

1438

Ottomans capture Constantinople

1453

Printing Press in Europe (Gutenberg)

1450s

Height of Aztec Empire

c 1480

Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope

1488

Columbus / Reconquista of Spain

1492

1st African Slaves to Americas

1502

Martin Luther / Protestant Reformation

1517

Cortez conquered the Aztecs

1519-1521

Magellan circumnavigates the Earth

1521-1523

1st unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna (Suleiman the Magnificent)

1529

Pizarro topples the Inca

1533

Discovery of silver at Potosí

1545

Battle of Lepanto (Ottoman naval defeat)

1571

1st Manila Galleon (global trade of silver)

1571

Spanish Armada (Spain's failed invasion of England)

1588

Battle of Sekigahara (beginning of Tokugawa Shogunate)

1600

Foundation of Jamestown

1607

Thirty Years' War

1618-1648

Qing Dynasty

1644-1911

Cape Town colony founded (Dutch)

1653

2nd unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna (Mehmet IV)

1683

Glorious Revolution / English Bill of Rights

1689

Age of Enlightenment begins

c. 1700s

Kingdom of Prussia established

1701

Ashanti Empire established

1701

Peter the Great founded St. Petersburg

1703

Death of Aurangzeb/Mughal decline

1707

Russo-Turkish War

1735-1739

Marvel’s Mill in England

1742

Battle of Panipat (foundation of Mughal empire)

1526

1756-1763

7 Years War

Invention of the Spinning Jenny

1767

Decl. of Independence

1776

Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations

1776

French Revolution Begins

1789

Jenner’s Smallpox Vaccine

1796

Haitian Independence

1804

British Abolish Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

1807

Janissary Revolt

1807-08

Congress of Vienna

1815

Independence in Latin America

1820s

Erie Canal Opens

1825

1st Opium War in China

1839

Tanzimat Reform

1839-1878

Marx & Engels’ The Communist Manifesto

1848

European Revolutions

1848-49

Commodore Perry '“opens” Japan

1853

Sepoy Mutiny

1857

Russia “frees” serfs/ends serfdom

1861

US Civil War

1861-65

Italian Unification

1861-1870

Emancipation Proclamation

1863

Suez Canal Opens

1869

German Unification

1871

Berlin Conference

1885

Brazil ends Slavery

1888

New Zealand grants Women Suffrage

1893

Battle of Adowa

1896

Spanish-American War

1898

Boer War

1899-1902

Russo-Japanese War

1904-1905

Mexican Revolution (Diaz overthrown, 1910)

1910-1920

Chinese Revolution (end of Qing)

1911

Panama Canal (Opened)

1914

World War I

1914-1918

(RR) Tsar Abdicates

1917 Feb/March

(RR) Communist/Bolshevik rise to power

1917 Oct/Nov

Balfour Declaration

1917 Nov

Armistice (end of WW1 fighting)

1918 Nov

Treaty of Versailles

1919

Washington Naval Conference

1921-1922

Kellogg-Briand Pact (outlawing war)

1928

New York Stock Market Crash

1929

Salt March (Ghandhi’s)

1930

Japanese invasion of Manchuria

1931

Italian invasion of Ethiopia

1935

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

1937

German blitzkrieg in Poland (Begining of WW1)

1939

Pearl Harbor (entry of US into WWII)

1941

Battle of Stalingrad (turning point of war)

1942-1943

Bretton Woods Conference (Post-war Economic Planning)

1944

Yalta Conference (beginning of Cold War?)

1945 Feb

A-Bomb tested (Manhattan Project)

1945 July

Hiroshima/Nagasaki

1945 August