APWH All Must Know Dates
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 c. 8000 BCE | Beginnings of Agriculture |
| c. 3000 BCE | Beginnings of Bronze Age- early civilizations |
| 1300 BCE | Iron Age |
| 6th C BCE | Life of Buddha, Confucius, Laozi |
| 5th C BCE | Greek Golden Age (philosophers) |
| 403-221 BCE | Era of Warring States |
| 323 BCE | Alexander the Great dies |
| 221 BCE | Quin Dynasty unified China |
| 184 BCE | Fall of Mauryan Dynasty |
| 32 | Beginnings of Christianity |
| 180 | end of Pax Romana |
| 220 | end of Han Dynasty |
| 312 | Emperor Constantine converts to Christianity |
| 333 | Roman capital moved to Constantinople |
| 4th C | Beginnings of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes |
| 476 | "Fall" of Rome |
| 527 | Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire |
| 550 | Fall of Gupta Dynasty/Empire |
| 622 | Founding of Islam |
| c. 730 | Printing invented in China |
| 732 | Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France) |
| c. 900 | Decline of classical Maya |
| 1054 | Great Schism in Christian Church (Roman Catholic & Eastern Orthodox) |
| 1066 | Norman conquest of England |
| 1071 | Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantine army) |
| 1095 | 1st Crusade |
| 1206 | Chinggis Khan begins Mongol conquests |
| 1258 | Mongols sack Baghdad, end of Abbasid caliphate |
| 1271-1295 | Marco Polo's travels |
| 1279-1368 | Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty in China |
| 1324 | Mansa Musa's pilgrimage |
| 1325-1349 | travels of Ibn Battuta |
| 1347-1348 | Bubonic Plague in Europe |
| 1368-1644 | Ming Dynasty |
| 1405-1433 | Zheng He's voyages |
| 1438 | Rise of Inca Empire |
| 1453 | Ottomans capture Constantinople |
| 1450's | Printing Press in Europe (Gutenburg) |
| c. 1480's | Height of Aztec Empire |
| 1488 | Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope |
| 1492 | Columbus/ Reconquista of Spain |
| 1502 | 1st African Slaves to Americas |
| 1517 | Martin Luther/ Protestant Reformation |
| 1521 | Cortez conquered the Aztecs |
| 1529 | 1st unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna (under Suleiman) |
| 1533 | Pizarro toppled the Inca |
| 1545 | Discovery of Silver at Potosi |
| 1571 | Battle of Lepanto (Ottoman naval defeat) |
| 1571 | 1st Manila Galleon (start of global trade) |
| 1588 | Spanish Armada |
| 1600 | Battle of Sekigahara (beginning of Tokugawa Shogunate) |
| 1607 | Foundation of Jamestown |
| 1618-1648 | 30 Years War |
| 1644 | end of Ming/ beginning of Quing Dynasty |
| 1653 | Cape Town colony founded (Dutch) |
| 1683 | 2nd unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna (Mehmet IV) |
| 1689 | Glorious Revolution/ English Bill of Rights |
| 1756-1763 | 7 Years War (French and Indian War) |
| 1767 | Invention of the Spinning Jenny (using machines to manufacture) |
| 1776 | Declaration of independence (American Revolution) |
| 1776 | Adam Smith writes Wealth of Nations |
| 1789 | French Revolution begins |
| 1796 | Jenner's smallpox vaccine |
| 1804 | Haitian independence |
| 1807 | British abolish Trans-Atlantic slave trade |
| 1807-1808 | Janissary Revolt |
| 1815 | Congress of Vienna |
| 1820's | Independence in Latin America |
| 1839 | 1st Opium War in China |
| 1839-1878 | Tanzimat Reforms |
| 1848 | Marx and Engles' The Communist Manifesto |
| 1848-1849 | European Revolutions |
| 1853 | Commodore Perry opens Japan |
| 1857 | Sepoy Mutiny |
| 1861 | End of Russian Serfdom |
| 1861-1865 | U.S. Civil War |
| 1861-1870 | Italian unification |
| 1863 | U.S. Emancipation Proclamation |
| 1871 | German Unification |
| 1885 | Berlin Conference division of Africa |
| 1893 | New Zealand grants women suffrage |
| 1896 | Battle of Adowa |
| 1898 | Spanish-American War |
| 1899-1902 | Boer War |
| 1905 | Russo-Japanese war |
| 1910-1920 | Mexican Revolution |
| 1911 | Chinese Revolution |
| 1914-1918 | World War I |
| 1917 March | Russian Revolution (Czar abdicates) |
| 1917 Oct/Nov | Russian Revolution (Bolshevik) |
| 1919 | Treaty of Versailles end of WWI |
| 1928 | Kellogg-Briand Pact (outlawing war) |
| 1929 | Stock Market Crash |
| 1931 | Japanese invasion of Manchuria |
| 1935 | Italian invasion of Ethiopia |
| 1937 | Japanese invasion of (the rest) of China |
| 1939 | German blitzkrieg in Poland |
| 1941 | Pearl Harbor, entry of US in WWII |
| 1945 Feb | Yalta Conference (Beginning of Cold War) |
| 1945 Aug | Hiroshima/ Nagasaki |
| 1945 Sept | end of WWII |
| 1947 June | Truman Doctrine |
| 1947 Aug | Independence & partition of India |
| 1948 | Birth of Israel |
| 1948-1949 | Berlin Blockade/ Airlift |
| 1949 Apr | NATO Founded |
| 1949 Oct | Chinese Communist Revolution |
| 1950-1953 | Korean War |
| 1954 | Vietnam expels France (Dien Bien Phu) |
| 1955 | Bandung Conf (Non-Aligned Nations) |
| 1956 Feb | Krushchev begins de-Stalinization |
| 1956 Fall | Nationalization of Suez Canal |
| 1957 | Sputnik |
| 1959 | Cuban Revolution (Fidel Castro) |
| 1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| 1966-1976 | Chinese Cultural Revolution |
| 1967 | 6-Day War |
| 1973 | Yom Kippur war (OPEC Oil Embargo) |
| 1979 | Iranian Revolution |
| 1979 | China begins "Socialist Market Economy" reforms (Deng Xiaoping) |
| 1987 | 1st Palestinian Intifada |
| 1989 June | Tiananmen Square |
| 1989 Nov | Fall of Berlin Wall |
| 1990 | Namibia gains independence (last African colony) |
| 1991 Jan | 1st Persian Gulf War |
| 1991 Dec | USSR disbands |
| 1994 Apr-Jul | genocide in Rwanda |
| 1994 | 1st all race elections in S. Africa |
| 2001 | 9/11 Attacks |
| 2003 | Us invades Irag |
| 2004 | Facebook founded |
| 2007 | Global "Great Recession" begins |
| 2011 | Wikileaks, "Arab Spring" democracy |
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