AP World History Important Dates - Loudoun County Public ...

[Pages:2]AP World History Important Dates

9,000 BCE Domestication of animals

8500-3500 Development of farming in ME 4th millennium Bronze Age

3500

Rise of Sumerians

3100

Unification of Egypt

2500

Rise of Indus River Valley

2000

Judaism begins w/Abraham

1500

Shang kingdom in China

1029-258

Zhou Dynasty

1000-600

Rise of Hinduism

509 5th century

Founding of Roman Republic Buddha, Confucius, Socrates

470-430

Golden Age of Athens

332-323

Alexander the Great

332-184

Mauryan dynasty

221

Founding of Qin dynasty

202

Founding of Han dynasty

27 BCE

Rise of Roman Empire

1st century CE Spread of Christianity

180

End of Pax Romana

220

End of Han Dynasty

220-589

Spread of Buddhism in China

313

Rome Legalizes Christianity

319-540

Gupta Dynasty

476 CE

Fall of western Roman Empire

527-565

Reign of Justinian

610

Rise of Islam

618-907

Tang Dynasty in China

661-750

Umayyad Caliphate

750

Start of Abbasid Caliphate

800

Charlemagne crowned H.R.E.

c.800

Heian period in Japan

c.855

Beginning of Kievan Rus

960-1271

Song Dynasty in China

1054 1096 12th century 1200 1206-1227 1271 1281 1304-1374 1320-1340 1325 1350 1368 1400 1405-1433 1441 1453 1492 1498 16th century 1517 1524 1526 1533 1552 1571 1600-1690 1603 1607 1640s 1643-1715 1644 1652 1689-1725 18th century

Split of Christian Church First Christian Crusade Rise of Feudalism in Japan Rise of Kingdom of Mali Reign of Genghis Khan Founding of the Yuan Dynasty Founding of the Ottoman Empire Italian Renaissance Spread of Bubonic Plague Rise of Aztec Empire Rise of Inca Empire Beginning of the Ming Dynasty Swahili states flourish Zheng He voyages Start of Atlantic slave trade Ottomans conquer Constantinople Columbus expeditions Vasco da Gama reaches India Commercial Revolution in Europe Start of Protestant Reformation Cortez conquers the Aztecs Founding of the Mughal Empire Pizarro conquers the Inca Beginning of Russian Empire Founding of Manila; world trade system Scientific Revolution Founding of Tokugawa Shogunate First British colony in North America Beginning of Japanese isolation Louis XIV in France; absolute monarchy Founding of the Qing Dynasty Dutch Boers colonize South Africa Peter the Great; Westernization of Russia The Enlightenment

1756-1763 1764 1770 1775-1783 1789-1815 1792 1792-1804 1805-1849 1808-1825 1823 1833 1839-1841 1839-1876 1848 1858 1861 1868-1914 1871 1871-1914 1880s 1884-1914 1884-1885 1885 1888 1890s 1910-1920 1912 1914-1919 1917 1929 1931-1947 1933 1936 1939-1945 1945 1947

Seven Years' War

1947-1991

British East India Co. controls India

1948

Beginning of Industrial Revolution

1949

American Revolution

1955

French Revolution & Napoleon

1957

Mary Wollstonecraft; feminism

1959

Haitian Revolution

1960

Muhammad Ali rules Egypt

1979

Latin American wars of independence 1990

Monroe Doctrine

1991

British abolish slavery

Opium Wars

Tanzimat reforms in Ottoman Empire

Communist Manifesto; Marxism

British Raj in India

Emancipation of serfs in Russia

Meiji Restoration; Japanese industrialize

Unification of Germany

Height of European imperialism

Demographic transition in the West

Russian industrialization

Berlin Conference

Founding of Indian National Congress

Abolition of slavery in Brazil & Cuba

European spheres of influence in China

Mexican Revolution

Chinese Revolution

World War I & Versailles Conference

Russian Revolution

Start of Great Depression

Gandhi's resistance in India

Hitler rises to power in Germany

Japan invades China

World War II

Creation of the United Nations

India & Pakistan gain independence

the Cold War Creation of Israel Communist revolution in China Bandung conference; nonalignment Creation of EEC Cuban Revolution "Year of Africa" Iranian Revolution End of apartheid in S. Africa Fall of the Soviet Union

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