AP WORLD IMPORTANT DATES Flashcards by Wesleigh Loos | Brainscape

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Delhi Sultanate established in India

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1206

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Magna Carta signed

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1215

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earliest stone building- Great Zimbabwe

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1260

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beginning of Ottoman Dynasty in Anatolia

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1281

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Aztec civilization flourishes in Central Mexico

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1300s-1500s

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Mansa Musa pilgrimage/hajj

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1324

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rise of the Inca Empire

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1438

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Chinggis Khan launches invasions that create Mongol Empire

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1206

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Mongols sack Baghdad

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1258

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travels of Marco Polo

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1271-1295

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travels of Ibn Battuta

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1325-1349

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Bubonic Plague in Europe

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1347-1375

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Western Schism of the Roman Catholic Church

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1378

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Zheng He’s 7 voyages

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1405-1433

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First shipment of African slaves to Portugal

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1441

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Ottoman captures Constantinople

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1453

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height of Aztec Empire

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1480s

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Treaty of Tordesillas

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1494

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Martin Luther’s 95 theses posted

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1517

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Reign of Akbar over the Mughal

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1556-1605

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defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British

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1588

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Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights (William and Mary)

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1689

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Gutenberg printing press in Europe

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1450s

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Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope

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1488

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Columbian Exchange of animals, food, and disease

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1500s

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Magellan’s crew circumnavigates the Earth

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1521-1523

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Cortes conquers Aztecs

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1524

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discovery of silver at Potosi

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1545

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1571

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1st Manila galleon (global trade of silver)

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1600

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unification of Japan; Tokugawa rule

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1644-1911

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Qing Dynasty

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1715-1789

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the enlightenment

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1767

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invention of the spinning jenny

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1775-1783

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American Revolution

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1776

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Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations

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1796

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Jenner’s smallpox vaccine

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1789-1799

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French Revolution

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1791

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Declaration of the Rights of Women by Olympe de Gouges

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1804

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Haitian independence from France

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1848

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Marx & Engels’ The Communist Manifesto

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1815

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Congress of Vienna

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1839-1878

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Tanzimat Reforms

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1853

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Commodore Matthew Perry “opens” Japan

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1857

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Sepoy Mutiny

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1869

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Suez Canal opens

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1871

A

German unification

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1885

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Berlin Conference

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1899-1902

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Boer War (British control of South Africa

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1899-1901

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Boxer Rebellion

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1904-1905

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Russo-Japanese war

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1911

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Chinese Revolutions

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1914

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Panama Canal opens

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1914-1918

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World War I

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1917 (feb-march)

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Russian Revolution (Czar abdicates)

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1917 (oct-nov)

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Russian Revolution (communist/Bolshevik)

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1918-1920

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Spanish Flu

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1919

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Treaty of Versailles

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1930

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Salt March

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1931

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Japanese invasion of Manchuria

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1935

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Italian invasion of Ethiopia

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1939

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German blitzkrieg in Poland (WWII begins)

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1941

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Pearl Harbor

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1941-1945

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the Holocaust

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1942-1943

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Battle of Stalingrad

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1945

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Yalta Conference

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1945

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bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

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1945

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end of WWII

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1947

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Truman doctrine

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1947

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Independence and partition of India