Must Know Dates Flashcards
1
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8000 BCE
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Beginnings of Agriculture
2
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1300 BCE
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Iron Age
3
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6th century BCE
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Live of Buddha, Confucius, and Lao Tsu
4
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5th Century BCE
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Greek Golden Age- Philosophers
5
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323 BCE
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Alexander the Great
6
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221 BCE
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Qin Unified China
7
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32
A
Beginnings of Christianity
8
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180
A
End of Pax Romana
9
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220
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End of Han Dynasty
10
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333
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Moving of Roman Capital to Constantinople
11
Q
4th Century
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Beginnings of Trans-Sahara Trade Routes
12
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476
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Fall of Western Roman Empire
13
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527
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Justinian Rule of Byzantine Empire
14
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550
A
Fall of Gupta Dynasty
15
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623
A
Rise of Islam
16
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730
A
Printing Invented in China
17
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732
A
Battle of Tours
18
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1054
A
First Schism in Christian Church
19
Q
1071
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Battle of Mazinkert (seljuk Turks defeat byz)
20
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1095
A
1st Crusade
21
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1206
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Chinggis Khan Begins Mongol Conquest
22
Q
1258
A
Mongols Sack Bagdad
23
Q
1271-1295
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Marco Pollo Travels
24
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1279-1368
A
Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty in China
25
1324
Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage
26
1325-1349
Travels of Ibn Battuta
27
1347-1348
Bubonic Plague in Europe
28
1433
End of Zheng He's Voyages
29
1438
Rise of Inca
30
1453
Ottomans Capture Constantinople
31
1480s
Height of Aztec Empire
32
1488
Dias Rounded Cape of Good Hope
33
1492
Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue
34
1517
Martin Luther's 95 Thesis
35
1521
Cortez Counquered Aztec
36
1533
Pizzaro Topples Inca
37
1545
Discovery of silver at Potosi
38
1571
Battle of Lepanto (Naval defeat of Ottomans)
39
1588
Defeat of Spanish Armada by British
40
1600
Battle of Sekigahara- Beginnings of Tokugawa Shogunate
41
1607
Founding of Jamestown
42
1644
End of ming, Qing Dynasty Starts
43
1683
Unsuccessful Siege of Vienna
44
1689
Glorious Revolution/ English Bill of Rights
45
1756-1763
7 Years War/ French and Indian War
46
1767
Invention of Spinning Jenny (Manufacturing Machines)
47
1776
American Revolution
48
1789
French Revolution
49
1804
Haitian Revolution
50
1807
British Abolition of Trans-Altantic Slave Trade
51
1815
Congress of Vienna
52
1820s
Independence in Latin America
53
1839
1st Opium War with China
54
1848
Marx and Engles Write Communist Manifesto
55
1853
Commodore Perry opens Japan
56
1857
Seppoy Mutiny
57
1861
End of Russian Serfdom
58
1871
German Unification
59
1885
Berlin Conference- Division of Africa
60
1893
New Zealand Grants Women Suffrage
61
1898
Spanish-American War- US acquired Philippines, Cuba, Guam, and Puerto Rico
62
1899
Boer War- British in Control of South Africa
