Flashcards: Dates (all eras)
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Sievertl 
on March 2, 2011
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These dates do not all appear on your final exam, but knowing what events happen in specific centuries can help eliminate choices when faced with a difficult Multiple Choice question.
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Farmington High AP World History, Fanwood
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 8000 BCE | Beginnings of Agriculture |
| 476 CE | Fall of Western Roman Empire |
| 32 CE | Beginnings of Christianity |
| 221 CE | Qin unified China |
| 527 CE | Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire |
| 1300 BCE | Iron Age |
| 3000 BCE | Beginnings of Bronze Age - early civilizations |
| 323 BCE | Alexander the Great |
| 220 BCE | End of Han Dynasty |
| 6th century BCE | Life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu (beginnings of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism) |
| 180 CE | end of Pax Romana |
| 333 CE | Roman capital moved to Constantinople |
| 5th century BCE | Greek golden age |
| 1405 - 1433 | Zheng He's voyages in the Indian Ocean |
| 1066 CE | Norman conquest of England |
| 1258 | Mongols sack Baghdad |
| 1071 | Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantines) |
| 1271-1295 | Marco Polo travels |
| 1325-1349 | travels of Ibn Buttuta |
| 622 CE | Founding of Islam |
| 1054 CE | Great Schism in Christian Church (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox) |
| 1096 CE | 1st Crusade |
| 1347 | start of Bubonic Plague in Europe |
| 1989 | 1989 - Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin Wall |
| 2001 | 9/11 Attacks |
| 1973 | Yom Kippur war |
| 1979 | Iranian Revolution |
| 1917 | Russian Revolution |
| 1937 | Japanese invasion of China |
| 1939 | German blitzkrieg in Poland |
| 1945 | end of WWII |
| 1941 | Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII |
| 1947 | Independence & Partition of India |
| 1948 | Birth of Israel/Establishment of apartheid in South Africa |
| 1949 | Chinese Communist Revolution |
| 1967 | 6-Day War/Chinese Cultural Revolution |
| 1453 | Ottomans capture Constantinople |
| 1488 | Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope |
| 1521 | Cortez conquered the Aztecs |
| 1517 | Martin Luther/95 theses - Beginning of the Protestant Reformation |
| 1533 | Pizarro toppled the Inca |
| 1600 - 1867 | Tokugawa Shogunate |
| 1502 | 1st Slaves to Americas |
| 1683 | unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna |
| 1789 | French Revolution |
| 1804 | Haitian independence |
| 1836 | 1st opium war in China |
| 1885 | Berlin Conference - division of Africa |
| 1689 | English Bill of Rights |
| 1929 | stock market crash |
| 1863 | Emancipation Proclamation in US |
| 1776 | American Revolution |
| 1815 | Congress of Vienna |
| 1848 | Marx & Engles write Communist Manifesto |
| 1853 | Commodore Perry opens Japan |
| 1861 | end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification |
| 1820's | Independence in Latin America |
| 1857 | Sepoy Mutiny |
| 1871 | German unification |
| 1898 | Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico |
| 1958-1961 | Great Leap Forward in China |
| 1991 | Fall of the Soviet Union |
| 1904-1905 | Russo-Japanese War |
| 1750's | Beginnings of the Industrial Revolution in England |
| 1807 | end of British slave trade |
| 1910 - 1920 | Mexican Revolution |
| 1526-1858 | Mughal Dynasty |
| 1497-1498 | Vasco da Gama's voyage to India |
| 1453 | Fall of the eastern Roman empire (Byzantine) |
| 1613 - 1917 | Romanov Dynasty |
| 1644-1911 | Qing Dynasty (China) |
| 618-907 | Tang Dynasty |
| 1289 - 1923 | Ottoman Dynasty/Ottoman Empire |
| 1279-1368 | Yuan Dynasty |
| 1368 - 1644 | Ming Dynasty |
| 1211 | Beginning of Mongol conquests |
| 960-1279 | Song Dynasty |
| 750 -1258 | Abbasid Dynasty |
| 1330's | Beginnings of Bubonic plague in China |
| 206 B.C.E.-220 C.E. | Han dynasty |
| 1403-221 B.C.E. | Period of the Warring States in China |
| 300-1100 C.E. | Mayan civilization |
| 320-550 C.E. | Gupta dynasty |
| Third-first centuries B.C.E. | Spread of Buddhism and Hinduism from South Asia |
| 336-323 B.C.E. | Rule of Alexander of Macedon (the Great) |
| 3000 B.C.E.-1000 C.E. | Indo-European migrations |
| 1500-500 B.C.E. | Vedic Age in South Asia |
| 2200 B.C.E. | Beginning of Chinese dynastic rule |
| 4 B.C.E.-29 C.E. | Life of Jesus Christ |
| 4000 B.C.E. | First cities |
| 2500-2000 B.C.E. | Height of Harappan society in South Asia |
| 1643-1715 | Reign of Louis XIV of France |
| 1494 | Treaty ofTordesillas |
| 1441 | Beginning of the Portuguese slave trade in Africa |
| 711-1492 | Muslim occupation of Spain |
| 570-632 | Life of Muhammad |
| 1500 B.C.E. | Beginning of Aryan migrations to South Asia |
| 2600-2500 B.C.E. | Pyramid construction in Egypt |
| 509 B.C.E. | Establishment of the Roman republic |
| 800 B.C.E. | Establishment of Greek polis |
| 1869 | Opening of the Suez Canal |
| 1868 | Meiji Restoration (Japan) |
| 1918 | Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (Russian withdrawal from WWI) |
| 1980-1988 | Iran-Iraq war |
| 1959 | Cuban Revolution |
| 1949 | Establishment of NATO |
| 1955 | Establishment of the Warsaw Pact |
| 1990 | Reunification of Germany |
| 1995 | Establishment of the World Trade Organization |
| 1990-1991 | Gulf War |
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