Must Know Dates for the AP World History Exam Flashcards
1
Q
8000 BCE
A
Beginnings of agriculture
2
Q
3000 BCE
A
Beginnings of Bronze Age (Early Civs)
3
Q
18th BCE
A
Hammurabi’s Code
4
Q
1500 BCe
A
Early Alphabetic Script
5
Q
1300 BCe
A
Iron Age
6
Q
10th -7th
A
Assyrian Empire
7
Q
6th Centurly BCE
A
Life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu
8
Q
5th Century BCE
A
Greek Golden Age-philosophers
9
Q
323 BCE
A
Alexander the Great
10
Q
221 BCe
A
Qin unify China
11
Q
32 CE
A
Beginnings of Christianity
12
Q
180 CE
A
End of Pax Romana
13
Q
220 CE
A
End of Han Dynasty
14
Q
333
A
Roman Capital moved to Constantinople
15
Q
4th C
A
Beginning of Trans Saharan Trade Routes
16
Q
476
A
Fall of Rome
17
Q
527
A
Justinian Rule of Byzantine Empire
18
Q
632
A
Rise of Islam
19
Q
732
A
Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France)
20
Q
1054
A
1st Schism in Christian Church
21
Q
1066
A
Norman Conquest of England
22
Q
1071
A
Battle of Manzikert
23
Q
1095
A
1st Crusade
24
Q
1258
A
Mongols Sack Baghdad
25
1271-1295
Marco Polo Travels
26
1324
Mansa Musa Pilgrimage
27
1325-1349
Travels of Ibn Battuta
28
1347-1348
Bubonic Plague in Europe
29
1433
End of Zheng He's Voyages
30
1453
Ottomans Capture Constantinople
31
1488
Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope
32
1492
Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue/Reconquista of Spain
33
1502
Slaves to Americas
34
1517
Martin Luther/95 Theses
35
1521
Cortez Conquered Aztec
36
1533
Pizzaro toppled the Inca
37
1571
Battle of Lepanto (Naval Defeat of the Ottomans)
38
1588
Defeat of the Spanish Armada by British
39
1600
Battle of Sekigahara -Beginning of Tokugawa
40
1607
Foundation of James Town
41
1618-1648
30 Years War
42
1683
unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna
43
1689
Glorious Revolution
44
1756-1763
7 Years War
45
1776
American Revolution
46
1789
French Revolution
47
1804
Haitian independence
48
1815
Congress of Vienna
49
1820s
Independence in Latin America
50
1839
1st Opium War in China
51
1848
European Revolutions/Marx and Engles write communist Manifesto
52
1853
Commodore Perry opens Japan
53
1857
Sepoy Mutiny
54
1861
End of Russian Serfdom/Italian Unification
55
1863
Emancipation Procolmation
56
1871
German Unification
57
1885
Berlin Conference
58
1898
Spanish American War
59
1899
Boer War: British control in South Africa
60
1905
Russo-Japanese War
61
1910-1920
Mexican Revolution
62
1911
Chinese revolution
63
1914
WWI
64
1917
Russian Revolution
65
1919
Treaty of Versailles
66
1929
Stock Market Crash
67
1931
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
68
1935
Italian invasion of Ethiopia
69
1939
German Blitzkrieg in poland
70
1941
Pearl Harbor, Entry of US into the War
71
1945
End of WWII
72
1947
Independence and Partition of India
73
1948
Birth of Israel
74
1949
Chinese Communist Revolution
75
1950-1953
Korean War
76
1954
Vietnamese defeat the French at Dien Bien Phu
77
1956
de-Stalinization/nationalization of Suez CAnal
78
1959
Cuban Revolution
79
1962
Cuban Misslile Crisis
80
1967
6 Day war/Chinese cultural revoltuoin
81
1973
Yom Kippur War
82
1979
Iranian Revolutoin
83
1987
1st Palestinian Intifada
84
1989
Tianamen Square/Fall of Berlin Wall
85
1991
Fall of USSR/1st Gul f War
86
1994
GEnocide in Rwanda/All race election in S. Africa
87
2001
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