AP WORLD IMPORTANT DATES

Question 1

Delhi Sultanate established in India

Answer 1

1206

Question 2

Magna Carta signed

Answer 2

1215

Question 3

earliest stone building- Great Zimbabwe

Answer 3

1260

Question 4

beginning of Ottoman Dynasty in Anatolia

Answer 4

1281

Question 5

Aztec civilization flourishes in Central Mexico

Answer 5

1300s-1500s

Question 6

Mansa Musa pilgrimage/hajj

Answer 6

1324

Question 7

rise of the Inca Empire

Answer 7

1438

Question 8

Chinggis Khan launches invasions that create Mongol Empire

Answer 8

1206

Question 9

Mongols sack Baghdad

Answer 9

1258

Question 10

travels of Marco Polo

Answer 10

1271-1295

Question 11

travels of Ibn Battuta

Answer 11

1325-1349

Question 12

Bubonic Plague in Europe

Answer 12

1347-1375

Question 13

Western Schism of the Roman Catholic Church

Answer 13

1378

Question 14

Zheng He’s 7 voyages

Answer 14

1405-1433

Question 15

First shipment of African slaves to Portugal

Answer 15

1441

Question 16

Ottoman captures Constantinople

Answer 16

1453

Question 17

height of Aztec Empire

Answer 17

1480s

Question 18

Treaty of Tordesillas

Answer 18

1494

Question 19

Martin Luther’s 95 theses posted

Answer 19

1517

Question 20

Reign of Akbar over the Mughal

Answer 20

1556-1605

Question 21

defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British

Answer 21

1588

Question 22

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

Answer 22

1689

Question 23

Gutenberg printing press in Europe

Answer 23

1450s

Question 24

Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope

Answer 24

1488

Question 25

Columbian Exchange of animals, food, and disease

Answer 25

1500s

Question 26

Magellan’s crew circumnavigates the Earth

Answer 26

1521-1523

Question 27

Cortes conquers Aztecs

Answer 27

1524

Question 28

discovery of silver at Potosi

Answer 28

1545

Question 29

1571

Answer 29

1st Manila galleon (global trade of silver)

Question 30

1600

Answer 30

unification of Japan; Tokugawa rule

Question 31

1644-1911

Answer 31

Qing Dynasty

Question 32

1715-1789

Answer 32

the enlightenment

Question 33

1767

Answer 33

invention of the spinning jenny

Question 34

1775-1783

Answer 34

American Revolution

Question 35

1776

Answer 35

Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations

Question 36

1796

Answer 36

Jenner’s smallpox vaccine

Question 37

1789-1799

Answer 37

French Revolution

Question 38

1791

Answer 38

Declaration of the Rights of Women by Olympe de Gouges

Question 39

1804

Answer 39

Haitian independence from France

Question 40

1848

Answer 40

Marx & Engels’ The Communist Manifesto

Question 41

1815

Answer 41

Congress of Vienna

Question 42

1839-1878

Answer 42

Tanzimat Reforms

Question 43

1853

Answer 43

Commodore Matthew Perry “opens” Japan

Question 44

1857

Answer 44

Sepoy Mutiny

Question 45

1869

Answer 45

Suez Canal opens

Question 46

1871

Answer 46

German unification

Question 47

1885

Answer 47

Berlin Conference

Question 48

1899-1902

Answer 48

Boer War (British control of South Africa

Question 49

1899-1901

Answer 49

Boxer Rebellion

Question 50

1904-1905

Answer 50

Russo-Japanese war

Question 51

1911

Answer 51

Chinese Revolutions

Question 52

1914

Answer 52

Panama Canal opens

Question 53

1914-1918

Answer 53

World War I

Question 54

1917 (feb-march)

Answer 54

Russian Revolution (Czar abdicates)

Question 55

1917 (oct-nov)

Answer 55

Russian Revolution (communist/Bolshevik)

Question 56

1918-1920

Answer 56

Spanish Flu

Question 57

1919

Answer 57

Treaty of Versailles

Question 58

1930

Answer 58

Salt March

Question 59

1931

Answer 59

Japanese invasion of Manchuria

Question 60

1935

Answer 60

Italian invasion of Ethiopia

Question 61

1939

Answer 61

German blitzkrieg in Poland (WWII begins)

Question 62

1941

Answer 62

Pearl Harbor

Question 63

1941-1945

Answer 63

the Holocaust

Question 64

1942-1943

Answer 64

Battle of Stalingrad

Question 65

1945

Answer 65

Yalta Conference

Question 66

1945

Answer 66

bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Question 67

1945

Answer 67

end of WWII

Question 68

1947

Answer 68

Truman doctrine

Question 69

1947

Answer 69

Independence and partition of India