WHAP Must Know Dates
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Math / Symbols | English |
|---|---|
 8000 B.C.E | Beginnings of agriculture |
| 5th Century B.C.E | Greek Golden Age - philosophers |
| 323 B.C.E | Alexander the great |
| 221 B.C.E | Qin unified china; Great Wall started to be built by Qin |
| 32 C.E | Beginnings of Christianity |
| 180 | end of Pax Romana |
| 220 | end of Han Dynasty |
| 333 | Roman capital moved to Constantinople |
| 476 | the fall of the Roman Empire, the eastern Roman Empire becomes known as the Byzantine Empire |
| 527 | Justinian's rule of Byzantine Empire (tries to restore old Roman order) |
| 622 | Muhammad's pilgrimage to Medina; begins the Muslim calendar (founded Islam as an official religion) |
| 732 | Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move in France) |
| 1054 | Great Schism in the Christian Church- Christianity split into Roman Catholicism and Christian Orthodox |
| 1066 | Norman conquest of England |
| 1071 | Battle of Manzikert- Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantine Empire |
| 1095 | Pope Urban II started the Crusades; sent Catholic warriors to possess holy city of Jerusalem |
| 1258 | Mongols sack Baghdad; caliphate is killed; marks the end of the Abbasid Caliphate |
| 1271-1295 | Marco Polo's travels |
| 1324 | Mansa Musa's pilgrimage |
| 1325-1349 | Ibn Battuta's travels (kept journals to document travels, later used as primary sources) |
| 1347-1348 | Bubonic/Black Plague; kills 1/3 of Europe's population |
| 1433 | End of Zheng He's voyages for China because of Emperor Yongle's death; Rise of the Ottoman Empire |
| 1453 | Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Turks (muslims from Anatolia) |
| 1488 | Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope (Africa) for Portugal |
| 1492 | Columbus sailed to America/ Reconquista of Spain |
| 1502 | First shipment of slaves to the Caribbean |
| 1517 | Martin Luther writes and nails "95 Theses" which criticized the Catholic Church; beginning of the Protestant Reformation |
| 1521 | Hernando Cortez conquers the Aztecs |
| 1533 | Pizarro toppled the Inca |
| 1545 | Discovery of silver at Potosi |
| 1571 | Battle of Lepanto- naval defeat of the Ottoman Turks |
| 1588 | British defeat of the Spanish Armada |
| 1600 | Battle of Sekigahara- beginning of the Tokugawa Shogunate |
| 1607 | Founding of Jamestown by the English (first slaves arrived there in 1619) |
| 1618-1648 | The Thirty Years War takes place in Europe with fierce fighting between Catholics and Protestants |
| 1683 | unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna |
| 1689 | Glorious Revolution/ English Bill of Rights |
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