Historical Timelines: Key Events
1200-1450 Post Classical Era
Key Events and Developments:
- 1202: Fourth Crusade
- 1206: Delhi Sultanate comes to power
- 1215: Magna Carta signed in England
- 1258: Mongol Invasions Begin
- 1299: Osman creates Ottoman Empire
- 1300: Little Ice Age Begins
- 1312: Great Schism begins
- 1324: Mansa Musa does pilgrimage to Mecca
- 1325: Tenochtitlan built in Aztec Empire
- 1337: Hundred Years' War begins
- 1347: Ibn Battuta travels
- 1358: Hanseatic League formed in Europe
- 1368: Ming Dynasty begins in China
- 1370: Tamerlane gains power
- 1378: Black Death
- 1400: Lateen Sail in use
- 1405: Zheng He voyages
- 1438: Inca Empire Expands
- 1441: Portuguese slave trading begins in West Africa
- 1450: Ottoman Empire gains power in Europe
Timeline of Early Modern Era 1450-1750
Key Events and Developments:
- 1350-1500: Renaissance begins
- 1453: Ottoman Empire gains Constantinople
- 1454: Sikhism Created
- 1464: Songhai Empire formed
- 1478: Spanish Inquisition Begins
- 1492: Columbus reaches Caribbean, Muslims and Jews expelled from Spain
- 1498: Vasco De Gama lands in India
- 1499: China Forbids sea trade
- 1501: Ismail I rules Safavid Empire
- 1517: Martin Luther writes 95 Theses
- 1518: Neo-Confucianism formed in China
- 1520: Suleiman gains power in Ottoman Empire
- 1521: Martin Luther excommunicated, Hernan Cortes defeats Aztecs
- 1526: Mughal empire created
- 1530: Plantations becomes Portuguese in Brazil
- 1532: Francisco Pizarro defeats Inca Empire
- 1543: Scientific Revolution Begins
- 1545: Council of Trent
- 1547: Ivan IV (Terrible) becomes Tsar of Russia
- 1550: Slave trade
- 1556: Akbar begins rule of Mughal Empire
- 1598: Edict of Nantes
- 1600: Tokugawa Shogunate formed in Japan, British East India Company formed
- 1602: Dutch East India Company formed
- 1607: Jamestown founded
- 1613: Romanov Dynasty
- 1624: Ana Nzinga formed in Ndongo
- 1632: Taj Mahal built
- 1640: Prussia is formed
- 1642: English Civil War
- 1643: Louis XIV of France takes power
- 1644: Qing Dynasty in China
- 1651: Enlightenment begins
- 1652: Dutch Settle in South Africa
- 1682: Peter the Great takes power in Russia
- 1688: Glorious Revolution in England
- 1750: Slave trade
Timeline of Modern Era 1750-1900
Key Events and Developments:
- 1750: Slave trade
- 1754: Seven Years War
- 1762: Catherine the Great Rules Russia
- 1765: Steam Engine Invented
- 1774: Russo-Turkish War
- 1775: American Revolution Begins
- 1780: Tupac Amaru Rebellion in Peru
- 1780s: Haitian Revolution
- 1787: Establishment of Freetown in West Africa
- 1789: French Revolution Begins
- 1791: Independence in British Empire
- 1799: Napoleon in Power
- 1808: Start of Latin American wars
- 1810: Rebellion in Mexico
- 1815: Serbia gets independence from Ottoman Empire
- 1821: Greece gets independence from Ottoman Empire
- 1833: Slavery prohibited in British Empire
- 1840: Opium War
- 1848: Communist Manifesto written
- 1850: Taiping Rebellion begins in China
- 1853: Crimean War, Commodore Perry arrives in Japan
- 1856: Second Opium War
- 1861: Start of U.S. Civil War
- 1868: Meiji Restoration begins
- 1869: Suez Canal Opens
- 1870: Unification of Italy
- 1871: Unification of Germany
- 1884: Berlin Conference
- 1885: Indian National Congress Created
- 1890: King Leopold's Reign over Congo
- 1898: Spanish American War, Boxer Rebellion
- 1899: Boer War starts in South Africa
Timeline of Contemporary Period 1900-Present
Key Events and Developments:
- 1903: Airplane Created
- 1904: Russo-Japanese War, U.S. Builds Panama Canal
- 1905: Maji Maji Rebellion in East Africa
- 1910: Mexican Revolution
- 1911: Qing Dynasty falls, Republic of China Created
- 1914: WWI starts, Franz Ferdinand assassinated
- 1915: Armenian Genocide
- 1917: Zimmerman Telegram, Russian Revolution
- 1918: Fourteen Points, End of Ottoman Empire
- 1919: Treaty of Paris ends WWI
- 1920: League of Nations Created
- 1922: USSR created
- 1928: Stalin 5 Year Plan
- 1929: Great Depression starts
- 1930: Salt March in India
- 1931: Japan invades Manchuria
- 1933: Hitler in Power in Germany
- 1934: Mao Zedong does Long March
- 1936: Franco in power in Spain, Spanish Civil War starts
- 1941: Vaccine for Polio
- 1945: United Nations created, Marshall Plan
- 1947: Truman Doctrine
- 1948: Berlin Airlift, Apartheid created.
- 1949: NATO founded, Communist Party in power in China
- 1950: Korean war starts
- 1955: Warsaw Pact Created, Vietnam War Starts.
- 1956: Suez Crisis
- 1959: Cuban Revolution.
- 1961: Berlin Wall Built
- 1962: Cuban Missile Crisis
- 1966: Cultural Revolution
- 1967: Six Day War
- 1979: Soviets invade Afghanistan, Iranian Revolution
- 1989: Tiananmen Square
- 1990: Rwanda Civil War
- 1994: Nelson Mandela becomes President of South Africa
- 2001: 9/11 Terrorist Attack