World History Must Know Dates

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World History Must Know Dates

Foundations (8,000 B.C.E. to 600 C.E)

8,000 B.C.E. – Beginnings of agriculture
3,000 B.C.E. – Beginnings of Bronze Age/ early civilizations
1,300 B.C.E. – Iron Age
6th c. B.C.E. – Life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu (beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, & Taoism)
5th c. B.C.E. – Greek Golden Age/ philosophers
323 B.C.E. – Alexander the Great
221 B.C.E. – Qin unified China
32 C.E. – Beginnings of Christianity
180 C.E. – End of Pax Romana
220 C.E. – End of the Han Dynasty
333 – Roman capital moved to Constantinople
4th c. – Beginning of Trans-Saharan trade routes
476 – Fall of Rome
527 – Justinian rule of the Byzantine Empire

600 – 1450

622 – Founding of Islam
711 – Islamic takeover of Spain (al-Andulus)
732 – Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France)
1054 – Great Schism in Christian Church (Roman Catholic & Eastern Orthodox)
1066 – Norman conquest of England
1071 – Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantines)
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

1450-1750

1453 – Ottomans capture Constantinople
1488 – Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope
1492 – Columbus sailed the ocean blue/ Reconquista of Spain
1502 – 1st slaves to Americas
1517 – Martin Luther/ 95 Theses
1521 – Cortez conquered the Aztecs
1533 – Pizarro toppled the Inca
1571 – Battle of Lepanto (naval defeat for the Ottomans)
1588 – Defeat of the Spanish Armanda by the British
1600 Battle of Sekigahara – Beginning of the Tokugawa
1607 – Foundation of Jamestown
1618-1648 – 30 years war
1683 – Unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna
1689 – Glorious Revolution/ English Bill of Rights

1450-1750

Industrial Revolution
1756 – 1763 – 7 Years’ War/ French & Indian War
1776 – American Revolution/ Smith write Wealth of Nations
1789 – French Revolution
1804 – Haitian independence
1815 – Congress of Vienna.
1820s – Independence in Latin America
1839 – 1st Opium war in China
1848 – European revolutions/ Marx & Engles write Communist Manifesto
1853 – Commodore Perry opens Japan
1857 – Sepoy Mutiny/ rebellion
1861 – End of Russian serfdom/ Italian unification
1863 – Emancipation Proclamation in the U.S.
1871 – German unification
1885 – Berlin Conference – division of Africa
1898 – Spanish-American War – U.S. acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico
1899 – Boer War -0 British in control of South Africa
1905 – Russo-Japanese War
1910 – 1920 – Mexican Revolution
1911 – Chinese Revolution

1914 – Present

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 Manchuria
1939 – German blitzkrieg in Poland
1941 – Pearl Harbor, entry of U.S. 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 the Berlin Wall
1991 – Fall of the USSR/ 1st Gulf War
1994 – Genocide in Rwanda/ 1st all race elections in S. Africa
2001 – 9/11 Attacks

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