Regions Timeline of Important Events
Regions Timeline
East Asia
221 BCE - Qin dynasty unifies China
206 BCE - Han dynasty begins
c.100 BCE - Chinese rule Korea and Vietnam
220 CE - Han dynasty ends; Era of Division
589 CE - Sui dynasty reunifies China
618 - Tang dynasty begins
960 - Song dynasty begins
1185 - Kamakura shogunate; Feudal Japan begins
1279 - Mongol rule (Yuan dynasty) in China
1368 - Ming dynasty begins
1433 - End of Chinese expeditions
1600 - Tokugawa shogunate established
1644 - Manchurian “Qing” dynasty rules China
1839 - Opium War
1868 - Meiji reforms begin
1905 - Russo-Japanese War ends
1911 - Chinese Revolution
1931 - Japan invades Manchuria
1937 - Japan invades China
1949 - Communist victory in China
1950 - Korean War begins
1958 - Great Leap Forward in China
1966 - Cultural Revolution in China
1979 - Deng’s reforms in China
The Middle East
8500 BCE - Development of farming in Middle East
3500 BCE - Sumerian civilization
3100 BCE - Rise of Egyptian civilization
1200 BCE - Jews settle near the Mediterranean; first monotheistic religion
550 BCE - Cyrus the Great forms Persian Empire
323 BCE - Alexander’s Hellenistic Empire
64 BCE - Rome conquers Syria & Palestine
622 - Muhammad’s flight from Mecca to Medina
661 - Umayyad caliphate; expansion of Islam
750 - Abbasid caliphate established
945 - Persian Buyids capture Baghdad; caliphs made into puppet rulers
1055 - Seljuk Turks control caliphate
1096 - First Christian Crusade in Palestine
1258 - Fall of Baghdad to Mongols; end of Abbasid caliphate
1260 - Mamluk rulers defeat Mongols at Ain Jalut
1453 - Ottomans capture Constantinople, fall of Byzantine Empire
1571 - Ottoman naval defeat at Lepanto; beginning of European dominance
1798 - Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt; Muhammad Ali rules Egypt (1805-1849)
1839 - Tanzimat reforms in the Ottomans (- 1876)
1854 - Crimean War (to 1856)
1869 - Opening of the Suez Canal
1882 - British occupation of Egypt
1916 - Arab revolts against Ottomans
1917 - Balfour Declaration promises Jews a homeland in Palestine
1920 - French and British mandates set up in Middle East
1923 - Independence of Turkey recognized
1948 - Israel established; 1st Arab-Israeli war
1967 - Israel victorious in Six-Day War
1979 - Iranian Revolution; spread of Islamic fundamentalism
1987 - First Intifada, mass Palestinian uprising against Israeli rule
1990-91 - Persian Gulf War
Pre-Columbus/Latin America
1200 BCE - Olmecs in Mexico; Chavín in Andean South America
622 CE - Classical Maya (to 900)
1325 - Aztecs, Incas (1350) established
1492 - Columbus makes landfall in the Bahamas
1519 - Cortez conquers Aztecs (-1522)
1532 - Pizarro conquers Incas
1542 - Bartolome de las Casas pushed to reform treatment of Indians
1804 - Slave revolt leads to independence in Haiti
1830s - Rise of caudillos, self-interested military dictators backed by private armies
1888 - Slavery abolished in Brazil
1898 - Spanish-American War; US takes control of Puerto Rico, Guam, & the Philippines
1903 - Theodore Roosevelt intervenes to assist Panamanian independence from Colombia
1910 - Mexican Revolution (to 1920)
1917 - Mexico’s revolutionary leaders author a new constitution
1929 - Ecuador becomes the first Latin American nation to grant women the right to vote
1933 - FDR announces “Good Neighbor Policy” of non-intervention in Latin America
1954 - The “Guatemalan Revolution” of Arévalo and Arbenz overthrown with CIA help
1965 - US forces, fearing a Communist takeover, occupy Dominican Republic
1985 - Civilian rule returns to Brazil (since 1964)
1994 - NAFTA takes effect
Western Europe
470 BCE - Athens at its height; Pericles, Phidiasa, Sophocles, Socrates
323 BCE - Alexander’s Hellenistic Empire
27 BCE - Augustus Caesar, rise of Roman Empire
312 CE - Constantine divides administration of empire and adopts Christianity
476 CE - Fall of Rome
732 - Franks defeat Muslims in France
800 - Charlemagne’s empire
1066 - Norman conquest of England
1096 - Crusades
1100 - Italian city-states emerge
1150 - Gothic style spreads (-1300)
1200 - Flowering of scholasticism (-1274)
1215 - Magna Carta
1300 - Italian & Northern Renaissance (1450-1600)
1338 - Hundred Years’ War (to 1453)
1348 - Black Death
1488 - Portuguese round Cape of Good Hope
1492 - Columbus makes landfall in the Bahamas
1498 - Vasco de Gama reaches India
1517 - Beginning of Protestant Reformation
1600s - Scientific Revolution (-1700s)
1648 - Thirty Years’ War ends with Treaty of Westphalia
1700s - Enlightenment
1763 - Seven Years’ War, British-French global warfare
1770 - James Watt’s steam engine; Beginning of Industrial Revolution
1776 - American Revolution
1789 - French Revolution
1870 - Unification of Italy
1871 - Unification of Germany
1871 - High point of European imperialism (-1914)
1914 - Beginning of World War I
1919 - Treaty of Versailles
1929 - Great Depression begins
1939 - WWII begins (to 1945)
1947 - Marshall Plan
1949 - NATO established
1957 - Establishment of Common Market
1989 - Berlin Wall division ends
2001 - Euro currency introduced
Sub-Saharan Africa
800 BCE - Migration of Bantu-speakers throughout sub-Saharan Africa (to 1000 CE)
800 CE - Growth of the trans-Sahara trade for gold
1000 - Ghana at height of its power
1100 - Almoravid movement in the Sahara
1200 - Rise of the empire of Mali
1324 - Pilgrimage of Mansa Musa
1400 - Flourishing cities of Timbuktu & Jenne; Ethiopian Christian kingdom; Swahili cities flourish on e. African coast
1441 - First shipment of African slaves brought directly from Africa to Portugal
1481 - Portuguese fort established at El Mina
1500 - Songhay Empire flourishes
1652 - Dutch establish colony at Cape of Good Hope
1700 - The Asante kingdom unified
1720s - Rise of the kingdom of Dahomey
1790s - Abolitionist movement gains strength in England
1818 - Shaka forges Zulu power and expansion
1834 - Boers make “Great Trek” into Natal
1870s - Partition of Africa (to 1914)
1920s - Pan-African Congresses in Paris; beginnings of the negritude movement
1957 - Ghana established as first independent African nation
1960 - Congo granted independence from Belgian rule
1966 - Biafran secessionist war in Nigeria (-1970)
1994 - First democratic elections in South Africa
Eastern Europe
100 CE - Slavic migrations into Eastern Europe (to 650)
330 - Constantinople made capital of Eastern Roman Empire
527 - Justinian; Byzantine Empire begins
864 - Beginning of missionary work of brothers Cyril and Methodius in Slavic lands
980 - Vladimir I’s conversion to Christianity
1054 - Schism between East/Western Christianity
1204 - Fourth Crusade
1241 - Capture of Russia by Mongols (Tartars)
1453 - Capture of Constantinople by Ottoman Turks; end of Byzantine Empire
1480 - Moscow region freed from Tartar control
1533 - Ivan the Terrible, first to be called Czar; boyar power reduced; Russian expansion
1613 - Romanov dynasty begins
1689 - Peter the Great reigns (- 1725)
1762 - Catherine the Great (-1796)
1831 - Greece wins independence from Ottomans
1854 - Crimean War
1861 - Russian emancipation of serfs
1884 - Beginnings of Russian industrialization
1905 - Russo-Japanese War; peasant reforms and establishment of duma
1914 - World War I
1917 - Bolshevik Revolution
1928 - Stalin rules; beginning of collectivization of agriculture and five-year plans
1936 - Stalin’s Great Purges (-1938)
1941 - German invasion of Soviet Union
1945 - Soviet takeover of Eastern Europe (-1948)
1956 - Hungarian revolt and its suppression
1968 - Revolt in Czechoslovakia and its repression (Prague Spring)
1979 - Uprisings in Poland and their suppression
1979 - Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
1985 - Gorbachev to power, initiates reforms; glasnost and perestroika
1989 - Berlin Wall falls; end of Soviet domination of Eastern Europe
1991 - End of Soviet Union
1995 - Russian army attempts to suppress independence of Chechnya, a Muslim region
South Asia
2500 BCE - Emergence of Harappan (Indus) civilization
563 BCE - Life of the Buddha (-483 BCE)
327 BCE - Alexander the Great’s invasion
322 BCE - Mauryan dynasty begins (to 185 BCE)
319 CE - Gupta dynasty begins (to 535)
1206 - Establishment of the Delhi sultanate
1556 - Rise of the Mughal Empire; reign of Akbar
1661 - British port-trading center founded at Bombay
1707 - Death of Aurangzeb; beginning of imperial breakdown
1835 - Decision to give support for English education in India; English adopted as the language of Indian law courts
1853 - First railway line constructed in India
1857 - Sepoy Mutiny
1858 - British parliament assumes control over India from the East India Company
1885 - Indian National Congress Party founded in India
1931 - Gandhi-led Salt March revives Indian Nationalist movement
1947 - India and Pakistan gain independence
1972 - Bangladesh becomes an independent nation, separated from Pakistan
Southeast Asia
111 BCE - Vietnam conquered by Chinese
939 CE - Vietnam wins its independence from China
1500 - Nguyen dynasty in central/south Vietnam founded
1511 - Portuguese conquer Malacca on the tip of Malayan peninsula
1512 - Portuguese arrive in Indonesia
1521 - Spain claims Philippines
1620 - Dutch East India Company established at Batavia on Java
1641 - Dutch capture Malacca from Portuguese, and begin conquests on Java, in Indonesia
1757 - Dutch become paramount power on Java
1883 - French conquest of Vietnam completed
1902 - U.S. takes over Philippines
1925 - first Communist organization established in Vietnam
1942 - Japanese occupation of French Indochina
1945 - Ho Chi Minh proclaims the Republic of Vietnam
1946 - Philippines gains independence
1954 - French defeat at Dien Bien Phu; Geneva accords, French withdrawal from Vietnam
1965 - Direct U.S. military intervention in Vietnam (to 1973)
1975 - Communist victory in Vietnam; Khmer Rouge sets up a brutal Communist government in Cambodia
1986 - Election of Corazón Aquino ends Marcos dictatorship in Philippines
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