World History Timeline of Major Events.docx



500-400 B.C.E.Confucius, Laoz/Daoism, Buddha, Athens at its height400-300 BCEGupta Empire, Olmecs300-200 BCEAlexander the Great, Chandragupta Maurya 200 BCE-0 CEQin and Han dynasties, Silk Road begins0-200 CELife and death of Jesus Christ, Roman Coliseum200-300Ghana300-400Constantine/Constantinople, Maya, Byzantine400-500Huns500-600Justinian600-700Muhammad/Islam, Umayyad caliphate, Tang Dynasty700-800Abbasid caliphate (Baghdad)800-900Charlemagne, Fujiwara period, Gunpowder900-1100Seljuk Turks capture Baghdad1100-1200Crusades begin1200-1300Mongols, Mali, Magna Carta, Spanish Inquisition1300-1400Ming Dynasty, Rise of Aztecs’1400-1500Columbian Exchange, Incas, Zheng He1500-1600Leonardo da Vinci, Henry VIII, Martin Luther, Ivan IV1600-1700Galileo, Pilgrims, Taj Mahal, Peter the Great1700-1800Catherine the Great, James Watt, American Revolution, French Revolution, Napoleon Bonaparte1800-1900Simón Bolívar, Monroe Doctrine, Opium War, Slavery abolished, American civil war, Boer War1900-1910Boxer Rebellion, First cars, Oreo cookies, Titanic, 1910-1920World War I, Oreo Cookies, Titanic, Treaty of Versailles1920-1930League of Nations, Women’s right to vote, Great Depression begins1930-1940Stalin begins Collectivization in USSR, Mao Zedong, WWII Begins1940-1950Pearl Harbor, FDR dies, Atomic bombs, Juan Perón, Nuremberg trials, Marshall Plan, NATO, Cold War begins1950-1960Korean War, Stalin dies- Khruschev takes power, Sputnik, Castro in Cuba1960-1970Bay of Pigs, Berlin Wall, Cuban Missile Crisis, Civil Rights movements, Tet offensive, The Beatles1970-1980Watergate Scandal, Star Wars1980-1990Thriller, Famine in Ethiopia, Berlin Wall Falls1990-2000Hubble Telescope, Nelson Mandela freed, Collapse of Soviet Union/End of Cold War2000-20109/11 attacks on US, War on Terror ................
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