AP WORLD IMPORTANT DATES Flashcards

1
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Delhi Sultanate established in India

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1206

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2
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Magna Carta signed

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1215

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3
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earliest stone building- Great Zimbabwe

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1260

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4
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beginning of Ottoman Dynasty in Anatolia

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1281

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5
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Aztec civilization flourishes in Central Mexico

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1300s-1500s

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6
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Mansa Musa pilgrimage/hajj

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1324

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7
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rise of the Inca Empire

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1438

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8
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Chinggis Khan launches invasions that create Mongol Empire

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1206

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9
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Mongols sack Baghdad

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1258

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10
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travels of Marco Polo

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1271-1295

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11
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travels of Ibn Battuta

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1325-1349

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12
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Bubonic Plague in Europe

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1347-1375

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13
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Western Schism of the Roman Catholic Church

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1378

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14
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Zheng He’s 7 voyages

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1405-1433

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15
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First shipment of African slaves to Portugal

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1441

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16
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Ottoman captures Constantinople

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1453

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17
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height of Aztec Empire

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1480s

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18
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Treaty of Tordesillas

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1494

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19
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Martin Luther’s 95 theses posted

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1517

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20
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Reign of Akbar over the Mughal

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1556-1605

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21
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defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British

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1588

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22
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Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights (William and Mary)

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1689

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23
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Gutenberg printing press in Europe

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1450s

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24
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Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope

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1488

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25
Columbian Exchange of animals, food, and disease
1500s
26
Magellan's crew circumnavigates the Earth
1521-1523
27
Cortes conquers Aztecs
1524
28
discovery of silver at Potosi
1545
29
1571
1st Manila galleon (global trade of silver)
30
1600
unification of Japan; Tokugawa rule
31
1644-1911
Qing Dynasty
32
1715-1789
the enlightenment
33
1767
invention of the spinning jenny
34
1775-1783
American Revolution
35
1776
Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations
36
1796
Jenner's smallpox vaccine
37
1789-1799
French Revolution
38
1791
Declaration of the Rights of Women by Olympe de Gouges
39
1804
Haitian independence from France
40
1848
Marx & Engels' The Communist Manifesto
41
1815
Congress of Vienna
42
1839-1878
Tanzimat Reforms
43
1853
Commodore Matthew Perry "opens" Japan
44
1857
Sepoy Mutiny
45
1869
Suez Canal opens
46
1871
German unification
47
1885
Berlin Conference
48
1899-1902
Boer War (British control of South Africa
49
1899-1901
Boxer Rebellion
50
1904-1905
Russo-Japanese war
51
1911
Chinese Revolutions
52
1914
Panama Canal opens
53
1914-1918
World War I
54
1917 (feb-march)
Russian Revolution (Czar abdicates)
55
1917 (oct-nov)
Russian Revolution (communist/Bolshevik)
56
1918-1920
Spanish Flu
57
1919
Treaty of Versailles
58
1930
Salt March
59
1931
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
60
1935
Italian invasion of Ethiopia
61
1939
German blitzkrieg in Poland (WWII begins)
62
1941
Pearl Harbor
63
1941-1945
the Holocaust
64
1942-1943
Battle of Stalingrad
65
1945
Yalta Conference
66
1945
bombing of Hiroshima & Nagasaki
67
1945
end of WWII
68
1947
Truman doctrine
69
1947
Independence and partition of India