Untitled Flashcards Set

Arrival of Islam in Morocco – 7th century CE

• The first recorded use of the word “European” – 8th century CE (by Charles Martel)

• Founding of Al Qarawiyyin – 859 CE

• Arrival of Islam in the Philippines – 14th century CE

• Invention of the movable type printing press – 11th century CE (China), 15th century CE (Europe by Gutenberg)

• End of the Reconquista (fall of Granada) – 1492 CE

• Sayyida al Hurra (ruled as pirate queen) – 1515-1542 CE

• Battle of Mactan – 1521 CE

• Magellan killed by Lapu-Lapu – April 27, 1521 CE

• Miguel de Legazpi arrives in the Philippines – 1565 CE

• Beginning of the French Revolution – 1789 CE

• Beginning and end of the Haitian Revolution – 1791 - 1804 CE

• Beginning and end of the Mexican War of Independence – 1810 - 1821 CE

• Establishment of the Congo Free State – 1885 CE

• Beginning of US colonialism in the Philippines – 1898 CE

• Relinquishment of the Congo to Belgium – 1908 CE

• Beginning and end of the Mexican Revolution – 1910 - 1920 CE

• Haiti finished paying “debt” to France – 1947 CE

• Moroccan independence from France – 1956 CE

• The Four Pests Campaign – 1958-1962 CE

• Assassination of Patrice Lumumba – January 17, 1961 CE

• Walter Rodney assassinated – June 13, 1980 CE

• NAFTA implementation period – 1994 CE

• February 20th Movement – 2011 CE