Must Know Dates

Question 1

Beginnings of Agriculture

Answer 1

8000 BC

Question 2

Beginnings of Bronze Age/Early civilizations

Answer 2

3000 BC

Question 3

Beginning of Iron Age

Answer 3

1300 BC

Question 4

life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu,(Beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism.)

Answer 4

500s BCE

Question 5

Greek Golden Age- philosophers

Answer 5

400s BCE

Question 6

Reign of Alexander the Great

Answer 6

336–323 BC

Question 7

Qin Dynasty

Answer 7

221 to 206 BC

Question 8

Beginnings of Christianity

Answer 8

32 C.E.

Question 9

Pax Romana

Answer 9

27 BC to 180 AD

Question 10

Han Dynasty

Answer 10

206 BC – 220 CE

Question 11

Roman capital moved to Constantinople

Answer 11

333CE

Question 12

Beginnings of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes

Answer 12

300s

Question 13

Fall of Rome

Answer 13

476

Question 14

Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire

Answer 14

500s

Question 15

Founding of Islam

Answer 15

622

Question 16

Maya Civilization

Answer 16

250 to 900

Question 17

Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France)

Answer 17

732

Question 18

Great Schism in Christian Church (roman Catholic & Eastern Orthodox)

Answer 18

1054

Question 19

Norman conquest of England

Answer 19

1066

Question 20

Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks over Byzantium)

Answer 20

1071

Question 21

1st Crusade

Answer 21

1095

Question 22

Chinggis Khan begins Mongol conquests

Answer 22

1206

Question 23

Mongols sack Baghdad, end of Abbasid caliphate

Answer 23

1258

Question 24

Marco Polo’s Travels

Answer 24

1271-1295

Question 25

Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty in China

Answer 25

1279-1368

Question 26

Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage

Answer 26

1324

Question 27

travels of Ibn Battuta

Answer 27

1325-1349

Question 28

Bubonic plague in Europe

Answer 28

1347-1350 approx

Question 29

Ming Dynasty

Answer 29

1368-1644

Question 30

Zheng He’s voyages

Answer 30

1405-1433

Question 31

Rise of the Inca Empire

Answer 31

1438

Question 32

Ottomans capture Constantinople

Answer 32

1453

Question 33

Aztec Empire

Answer 33

1428-1521

Question 34

Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope

Answer 34

1488

Question 35

Columbus/Reconquista of Spain

Answer 35

1492

Question 36

1st African slaves to Americas

Answer 36

1502

Question 37

Martin Luther’s 95 Theses

Answer 37

1517

Question 38

Cortez conquered the Aztecs

Answer 38

1521

Question 39

1st unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna

Answer 39

1529

Question 40

Pizarro toppled the Inca

Answer 40

1533

Question 41

Discovery of silver at Potosi

Answer 41

1545

Question 42

Battle of Lepanto (defeat of Ottoman Navy)

Answer 42

1571

Question 43

defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British

Answer 43

1588

Question 44

Battle of Sekigahara - unification of Japan - beginning of Tokugawa rule

Answer 44

1600

Question 45

Founding of Jamestown

Answer 45

1607

Question 46

30 Years War

Answer 46

1618-1648

Question 47

1644 End of Ming/Beginning of Qing Dynasty

Answer 47

1644

Question 48

2nd unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna

Answer 48

1683

Question 49

Glorious Revolution/English Bill of RIghts

Answer 49

1689

Question 50

7 years war/French and Indian War

Answer 50

1756-1763

Question 51

American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations

Answer 51

1776

Question 52

French Revolution

Answer 52

1789

Question 53

Haitian Independence

Answer 53

1804

Question 54

Congress of Vienna

Answer 54

1815

Question 55

Independence in Latin America

Answer 55

1820s

Question 56

1st opium war in China

Answer 56

1839

Question 57

European revolutions/Marx and Engles write Communist Manifesto

Answer 57

1848

Question 58

Commodore Perry opens Japan

Answer 58

1853

Question 59

Sepoy Mutiny

Answer 59

1857

Question 60

end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification

Answer 60

1861

Question 61

Emancipation Proclamation in US

Answer 61

1863

Question 62

German unification

Answer 62

1871

Question 63

Berlin Conference - division of Africa

Answer 63

1885

Question 64

Spanish-American War - US aquires Philipines, Cuba, Guam, and Puerto Rico

Answer 64

1898

Question 65

Boer War - British in control of South Africa

Answer 65

1899

Question 66

Russo-Japanese War

Answer 66

1905

Question 67

Mexican Revolution

Answer 67

1910-1920

Question 68

Chinese Revolution

Answer 68

1911

Question 69

Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu

Answer 69

1954

Question 70

De-Staliniztion/Nationalization of Suez Canal

Answer 70

1956

Question 71

WWI

Answer 71

1914 - 1918

Question 72

Russian Revolution

Answer 72

1917

Question 73

Treaty of Versailles - end of WWI

Answer 73

1919

Question 74

stock market crash

Answer 74

1929

Question 75

Japanese invasion of Manchuria

Answer 75

1931

Question 76

Italian invasion of Ethiopia

Answer 76

1935

Question 77

German blitzkrieg in Poland

Answer 77

1939

Question 78

Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII

Answer 78

1941

Question 79

WWII

Answer 79

1939-1945

Question 80

independence and partition of India

Answer 80

1947

Question 81

birth of Israel

Answer 81

1948

Question 82

Chinese Communist Revolution

Answer 82

1949

Question 83

Korean War

Answer 83

1950-1953

Question 84

Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu

Answer 84

1954

Question 85

de-Stalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal

Answer 85

1956

Question 86

Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 86

1962

Question 87

Chinese Cultural Revolution

Answer 87

1966-1979

Question 88

six-day war

Answer 88

1967

Question 89

Yom Kippur War

Answer 89

1973

Question 90

Iranian Revolution

Answer 90

1979

Question 91

1st Palestinian Intifada

Answer 91

1987

Question 92

Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin Wall

Answer 92

1989

Question 93

fall of USSR/1st Gulf War

Answer 93

1991

Question 94

genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S. Africa

Answer 94

1994

Question 95

9/11 Attacks

Answer 95

2001