GLOBL 1 CHRONOLOGICAL

  • Hijra: 622 CE

  • Abbasid Caliphate: 750–1258

  • Mongol globalization: 1206–1368

  • Travels of Ibn Battuta: 1325–1354

  • Expeditions of Zheng He: 1405–1433

  • Vasco da Gama’s voyage to India: 1497–1499

  • Trials of Galileo Galilei: 1610, 1633

  • Peace of Westphalia: 1648

  • Invention of the “Spinning Jenny”: 1764

  • Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen: 1789

  • Haitian Revolution: 1791–1804

  • Congress of Vienna: 1814–1815

  • Communist Manifesto: 1848

  • British Raj: 1858–1947

  • 1st wave of globalization: 1870–1914

  • Young Turk Revolution: 1908

  • Iranian Constitutional Revolution: 1905–1911

  • Chinese (Xinhai) Revolution: 1911

  • Armenian Genocide: 1915–1922

  • Bolshevik Revolution: 1917

  • Paris Peace Conference: 1919

  • 1st international refugee regime: 1920s–1930s

  • Soviet Famine: 1932–1933

  • Holocaust: 1941–1945

  • UN Declaration of Human Rights: 1948

  • UN Refugee Convention: 1951

  • 2nd wave of globalization: 1945–1980

  • Partition of British India: 1947

  • Cuban Revolution: 1953–1959

  • Algerian War of Independence: 1954–1962

  • Bandung Conference: 1955

  • March on Washington: 1963

  • China’s Cultural Revolution: 1966–1976

  • 2nd wave of feminism: 1960s–1980s

  • Digital Revolution: 1970s–present

  • 3rd wave of globalization: 1980–present

  • End of the Cold War: 1991

  • Kyoto Protocol: 1997

  • U.S. invasion of Iraq: 2003

  • Start of the Arab Spring: 2010

  • 4th Industrial Revolution: 2010s–present

  • Syrian refugee crisis: 2011–present

  • Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea: 2014

  • Paris Agreement: 2015

  • Obergefell v. Hodges: 2015