Dates Flashcards by Jennifer Tieu

Confucius’s life

551-479 BCE

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Buddha’s life

563-483 BCE

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Hellenistic period

323-31 BCE

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Grand Canal built (Sui)

581-618 CE

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Abbasid Caliphate begin and end

750-1258 CE

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Year of permanent schism between Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic

1054 CE

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Beginning of Aztec Empire

1325 CE

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Qing rise and fall

1644-1912 CE

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Year Peace of Westphalia (ended thirty years war)

1648 CE

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Seven years war

1756-1763 CE

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Defeat of Aztecs by Hernan Cortez

1521 CE

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Establishment of the Mughal Empire in India

1526 CE

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Yuan (Mongol) rule in China

1271-1368 CE

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Fall of the Roman Empire

476 CE

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Nailing of 95 theses on the door of the Wittenburg Cathedral

1517 CE

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Year of Ottoman capture of Constantinople

1453 CE

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Hejira of Muhammad

622 CE

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Sumerians settled in Tigris and Euphrates valley

3500 BCE

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Height of kingdom of Ghana

750-1076 CE

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Great pyramids built

2600-2400 BCE

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Mohenjo Daro built

2600 BCE

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Beginning of sedentary agriculture

8000 BCE

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First Christian crusade on Palestine

1096 CE

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Ibn battuta’s journey begins

1325 CE

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First great Chinese trading expedition

1405 CE

Emperor Qin shi haungdi dies

210 BCE

Silk Road founded

114 BCE

Founding of Incan empire

1438 CE

Height of Mayan civilization

250-900 CE

King lalibela stone churches

1250 CE

Great Zimbabwe built

1400 CE

Bantu migrations

1500 BCE- 1000 CE

Magna Carta signed by king john

1215 CE

English civil war fought

1642-1649 CE

Glorious revolution

1688 CE

Tokugawa shogunate rule in Japan

1603-1857 CE

Polynesian migrations

300-1300 BCE

Stonehenge built

2800-1800 BCE

Gupta empire rule

320-550 CE

Hammurabi unite Mesopotamia

1750 BCE

Justinian's code of laws

529 CE

English defeat of Spanish Armada

1588 CE

Invention of printing press by Gutenburg

1450 CE

Height of Athenian culture

470-430 BCE

Rule of Mongols (Tartars) in Russia

1237-1380 CE

Peter the Great as Czar of Russia

1682-1725 CE

Unification of Europe under Charlemagne

800-814 CE

Northern Renaissance

1450-1600 CE

Unification of German states

1871 CE

Opium War

1839-1842 CE

Taiping Rebellion

1851 CE

Russo-Japanese War

1905 CE

Meiji Restoration

1867 CE

Invention of steam engine by James Watt

1769 CE

Napoleon becomes emperor of France

1804 CE

Magellan's circumnavigation of globe

1519-1522 CE

Safavid Empire control of Persia

1502-1736 CE

Ottoman Empire

1299-1922 CE

Monroe Doctrine

1823 CE

Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx

1848 CE

Execution of Louis XVI

1793 CE

Boxer Rebellion

1899 CE

Berlin Conference (scramble for Africa)

1884 CE

Suez Canal opened

1869 CE

Panama Canal Opened

1914 CE

Slavery abolished in Brazil

1888 CE

Century by which most Latin American colonies gained independence

1820s CE

Sepoy Rebellion

1857 CE

October Revolution (November or Communist Revolution)

1917 CE

Treaty of Versailles signed

1919 CE

Serfs emancipated

1861 CE

Abolishment of transatlantic slave trade by Great Britain

1807 CE

The Wealth of Nations written by Adam Smith

1776 CE

Haitian Revolution led by Toussaint L'Ouvertune

1791-1804 CE

Turkey proclaimed a republic by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

1923 CE

Cosmopolitan rule of Tang Dynasty

618-907 CE

Delhi Sultanate rule

1206-1526 CE

Visit of Commodore Perry to Japan

1853-1854 CE

Life of Dutch humanist Eramus

1466-1536 CE

Mexican Revolution

1910-1917 CE

Muhammad Ali as leader of Egypt

1805-1849 CE

Tanzimat Reforms

1839-1876 CE

Louis XIV's move into Versailles

1682 CE

Kangxi Emperor of China

1661-1722 CE

Stalin as head of USSR

1928-1953 CE

First attack of the Irish coast by Viking raiders

793 CE

Beginning of Roman Empire

31 BCE

Shaka unites Zulu people

1812 CE

Queen Nzinga rule in Angola

1622-1663 CE

Norman conquest of England

1066 CE

Congress of Vienna

1815 CE

Mexican-American War

1846-1848 CE

Spanish American War

1898 CE

Missionary activities of Methodius and Cyril

862-885 CE

Year India gained independence from Britain

1947 CE

Separation of West Pakistan from East Pakistan

1971 CE

End of WWII

1945 CE

NATO formed

1949 CE

Korean War

1950-1953 CE

Cuban Missile Crisis

1962 CE

Mao Zedong's forces win the communist revolution

1949 CE

End of Vietnam War

1975 CE

Berlin Wall built

1961 CE

First atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

1945

End of Apartheid

1991 CE

Nelson Mandela becomes President of South Africa

1994 CE

Ghana wins independence

1957 CE

Israel becomes independent state

1948 CE