APWH Must-Know Dates
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 8000 BCE | Beginnings of agriculture |
| 3000 BCE | Beginnings of Bronze Age - early civ's |
| 1300 BCE | Iron Age |
| 6 CBCE | Life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu (beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism) |
| 5 CBCE | Greek Golden Age - philosophers |
| 323 BCE | Alexander the Great |
| 221 BCE | Qin unified China |
| 32 | Beginnings of Christianity |
| 180 | end of Pax Romana |
| 220 | end of Han Dynasty |
| 333 | Roman capital moved to Constantinople |
| 4 Century | Beginnings of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes |
| 476 | Fall of Rome |
| 527 | Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire |
| 632 | Rise of Islam |
| 732 | Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France) |
| 1054 | 1st Schism in Christian Church |
| 1066 | Norman conquest of England |
| 1071 | Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byz) |
| 1095 | 1st Crusade |
| 1258 | Mongols sack Baghdad |
| 1271-1295 | Marco Polo travels |
| 1324 | Mansa Musa's pilgrimage |
| 1325-1349 | travels of Ibn Battuta |
| 1347-1348 | Bubonic plague in Europe |
| 1433 | end of Zheng He's voyages/Rise of Ottomans |
| 1453 | Ottomans capture Constantinople |
| 1488 | Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope |
| 1492 | Columbus sailed the ocean blue/ Reconquista of Spain |
| 1502 | Slaves to America |
| 1517 | Martin Luther/95 theses |
| 1521 | Cortez conquered the Aztecs |
| 1533 | Pizarro toppled the Inca |
| 1571 | Battle of Lepanto, (naval defeat of Ottomans) |
| 1588 | defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British |
| 1600 | Battle of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa |
| 1607 | foundation of Jamestown |
| 1618-1648 | 30 years war |
| 1683 | unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna |
| 1689 | Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights |
| 1756-1763 | 7 years war/French and Indian War |
| 1776 | American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations |
| 1789 | French Revolution |
| 1804 | Haitian independence |
| 1815 | Congress of Vienna |
| 1820s | Independence of Latin America |
| 1839 | 1st opium war in China |
| 1848 | European revolutions/Marx & Engles write Communist Manifesto |
| 1853 | Commodore Perry opens Japan |
| 1857 | Sepoy Mutiny |
| 1861 | end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification |
| 1863 | Emancipation Proclamation in US |
| 1871 | German unification |
| 1885 | Berlin Conference - division of Africa |
| 1898 | Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico |
| 1899 | Boer War - British in control of South Africa |
| 1905 | Russo-Japanese war |
| 1910-1920 | Mexican Revolution |
| 1911 | Chinese Revolution |
| 1914 | WWI |
| 1917 | Russian Revolution |
| 1919 | Treaty of Versailles - end of WWI |
| 1929 | stock market crash |
| 1931 | Japanese invasion of Manchuria |
| 1935 | Italian invasion of Ethiopia |
| 1939 | German blitzkrieg in Poland |
| 1941 | Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII |
| 1945 | end of WWII |
| 1947 | independence & partition of India |
| 1948 | birth of Israel |
| 1949 | Chinese Communist Revolution |
| 1950-1953 | Korean War |
| 1954 | Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu |
| 1956 | de-Stalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal |
| 1959 | Cuban Revolution |
| 1962 | Cuban missile crisis |
| 1967 | 6-day war/Chinese Cultural Revolution |
| 1973 | Yom Kippur war |
| 1979 | Iranian Revolution |
| 1987 | 1st Palestinian Intifada |
| 1989 | Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin Wall |
| 1991 | fall of USSR/1st Gulf war |
| 1994 | genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S. Africa |
| 2001 | 9/11 Attacks |
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