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8000 BCE Beginnings of agriculture 3000 BCE Beginnings of Bronze Age 1300 BCE Iron Age 6th Century BCE Life of Buddha, Confucius, and Lao Tsu 5th Century BCE Greek Golden Age 323 BCE Alexander the Great 221 BCE Qin unified China 32 CE Beginnings of Christianity 180 CE End of Pax Romana 220 CE End of Han Dynasty 333 Roman capital moved to Constantinople 4th century Beginning 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 of the Christian Church 1066 Norman conquest of England 1071 Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantine) 1095 First Crusade 1215 Signing of Magna Carta in England 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 the Ottomans 1453 Ottomans capture Constantinople 1488 Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope 1492 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-Navel defeat of the Ottomans 1588 defeat of the Spanish Armada by the English 1600 Battle of Sekigahara-beginning of Tokugawa shogunate 1607 Found 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 "The Wealth of Nations" 1789 French Revolution 1804 Haitian Independence 1815 Congress of Vienna 1820s Independence in Latin America 1839 First Opium War in China 1848 Europeans revolutions/ Marx and Engles write Communist Manifesto 1853 Commodore Perry opens Japan 1857 Sepoy Munity 1861 end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification 1863 Emancipation Proclamation in the US 1871 German Unification 1885 Berlin Conference-division of Africa 1898 Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, and Puerto Rico 1899 Boer War - British in control of South Africa 1905 Russo-Japanese War/ Decemberist Revolt in Russia 1910-1920 Mexican Revolution 1911 Chinese Revolution 1914 WWI 1912 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 and 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 Tianamen Square/ fall of the Berlin Wall 1991 fall of the USSR/ 1st Gulf War 1994 Rwandan Genocide/ 1st all-race elections in South Africa 2001 9/11 attacks 2003 US declare war on Iraq on March 19th Saddam Hussein captured December 14th