AP WORLD IMPORTANT DATES Flashcards
Delhi Sultanate established in India
1206
Magna Carta signed
1215
earliest stone building- Great Zimbabwe
1260
beginning of Ottoman Dynasty in Anatolia
1281
Aztec civilization flourishes in Central Mexico
1300s-1500s
Mansa Musa pilgrimage/hajj
1324
rise of the Inca Empire
1438
Chinggis Khan launches invasions that create Mongol Empire
1206
Mongols sack Baghdad
1258
travels of Marco Polo
1271-1295
travels of Ibn Battuta
1325-1349
Bubonic Plague in Europe
1347-1375
Western Schism of the Roman Catholic Church
1378
Zheng He’s 7 voyages
1405-1433
First shipment of African slaves to Portugal
1441
Ottoman captures Constantinople
1453
height of Aztec Empire
1480s
Treaty of Tordesillas
1494
Martin Luther’s 95 theses posted
1517
Reign of Akbar over the Mughal
1556-1605
defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British
1588
Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights (William and Mary)
1689
Gutenberg printing press in Europe
1450s
Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope
1488
Columbian Exchange of animals, food, and disease
1500s
Magellan’s crew circumnavigates the Earth
1521-1523
Cortes conquers Aztecs
1524
discovery of silver at Potosi
1545
1571
1st Manila galleon (global trade of silver)
1600
unification of Japan; Tokugawa rule
1644-1911
Qing Dynasty
1715-1789
the enlightenment
1767
invention of the spinning jenny
1775-1783
American Revolution
1776
Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations
1796
Jenner’s smallpox vaccine
1789-1799
French Revolution
1791
Declaration of the Rights of Women by Olympe de Gouges
1804
Haitian independence from France
1848
Marx & Engels’ The Communist Manifesto
1815
Congress of Vienna
1839-1878
Tanzimat Reforms
1853
Commodore Matthew Perry “opens” Japan
1857
Sepoy Mutiny
1869
Suez Canal opens
1871
German unification
1885
Berlin Conference
1899-1902
Boer War (British control of South Africa
1899-1901
Boxer Rebellion
1904-1905
Russo-Japanese war
1911
Chinese Revolutions
1914
Panama Canal opens
1914-1918
World War I
1917 (feb-march)
Russian Revolution (Czar abdicates)
1917 (oct-nov)
Russian Revolution (communist/Bolshevik)
1918-1920
Spanish Flu
1919
Treaty of Versailles
1930
Salt March
1931
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
1935
Italian invasion of Ethiopia
1939
German blitzkrieg in Poland (WWII begins)
1941
Pearl Harbor
1941-1945
the Holocaust
1942-1943
Battle of Stalingrad
1945
Yalta Conference
1945
bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
1945
end of WWII
1947
Truman doctrine
1947
Independence and partition of India