Must Know Dates

Question 1

8000 BCE

Answer 1

Beginnings of Agriculture

Question 2

1300 BCE

Answer 2

Iron Age

Question 3

6th century BCE

Answer 3

Live of Buddha, Confucius, and Lao Tsu

Question 4

5th Century BCE

Answer 4

Greek Golden Age- Philosophers

Question 5

323 BCE

Answer 5

Alexander the Great

Question 6

221 BCE

Answer 6

Qin Unified China

Question 7

32

Answer 7

Beginnings of Christianity

Question 8

180

Answer 8

End of Pax Romana

Question 9

220

Answer 9

End of Han Dynasty

Question 10

333

Answer 10

Moving of Roman Capital to Constantinople

Question 11

4th Century

Answer 11

Beginnings of Trans-Sahara Trade Routes

Question 12

476

Answer 12

Fall of Western Roman Empire

Question 13

527

Answer 13

Justinian Rule of Byzantine Empire

Question 14

550

Answer 14

Fall of Gupta Dynasty

Question 15

623

Answer 15

Rise of Islam

Question 16

730

Answer 16

Printing Invented in China

Question 17

732

Answer 17

Battle of Tours

Question 18

1054

Answer 18

First Schism in Christian Church

Question 19

1071

Answer 19

Battle of Mazinkert (seljuk Turks defeat byz)

Question 20

1095

Answer 20

1st Crusade

Question 21

1206

Answer 21

Chinggis Khan Begins Mongol Conquest

Question 22

1258

Answer 22

Mongols Sack Bagdad

Question 23

1271-1295

Answer 23

Marco Pollo Travels

Question 24

1279-1368

Answer 24

Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty in China

Question 25

1324

Answer 25

Mansa Musa’s Pilgrimage

Question 26

1325-1349

Answer 26

Travels of Ibn Battuta

Question 27

1347-1348

Answer 27

Bubonic Plague in Europe

Question 28

1433

Answer 28

End of Zheng He’s Voyages

Question 29

1438

Answer 29

Rise of Inca

Question 30

1453

Answer 30

Ottomans Capture Constantinople

Question 31

1480s

Answer 31

Height of Aztec Empire

Question 32

1488

Answer 32

Dias Rounded Cape of Good Hope

Question 33

1492

Answer 33

Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue

Question 34

1517

Answer 34

Martin Luther’s 95 Thesis

Question 35

1521

Answer 35

Cortez Counquered Aztec

Question 36

1533

Answer 36

Pizzaro Topples Inca

Question 37

1545

Answer 37

Discovery of silver at Potosi

Question 38

1571

Answer 38

Battle of Lepanto (Naval defeat of Ottomans)

Question 39

1588

Answer 39

Defeat of Spanish Armada by British

Question 40

1600

Answer 40

Battle of Sekigahara- Beginnings of Tokugawa Shogunate

Question 41

1607

Answer 41

Founding of Jamestown

Question 42

1644

Answer 42

End of ming, Qing Dynasty Starts

Question 43

1683

Answer 43

Unsuccessful Siege of Vienna

Question 44

1689

Answer 44

Glorious Revolution/ English Bill of Rights

Question 45

1756-1763

Answer 45

7 Years War/ French and Indian War

Question 46

1767

Answer 46

Invention of Spinning Jenny (Manufacturing Machines)

Question 47

1776

Answer 47

American Revolution

Question 48

1789

Answer 48

French Revolution

Question 49

1804

Answer 49

Haitian Revolution

Question 50

1807

Answer 50

British Abolition of Trans-Altantic Slave Trade

Question 51

1815

Answer 51

Congress of Vienna

Question 52

1820s

Answer 52

Independence in Latin America

Question 53

1839

Answer 53

1st Opium War with China

Question 54

1848

Answer 54

Marx and Engles Write Communist Manifesto

Question 55

1853

Answer 55

Commodore Perry opens Japan

Question 56

1857

Answer 56

Seppoy Mutiny

Question 57

1861

Answer 57

End of Russian Serfdom

Question 58

1871

Answer 58

German Unification

Question 59

1885

Answer 59

Berlin Conference- Division of Africa

Question 60

1893

Answer 60

New Zealand Grants Women Suffrage

Question 61

1898

Answer 61

Spanish-American War- US acquired Philippines, Cuba, Guam, and Puerto Rico

Question 62

1899

Answer 62

Boer War- British in Control of South Africa