World History Dates

Question 1

Mongol invasion of Kyivan Rus

Answer 1

1242

Question 2

Mongol invasion of Abbasid Dynasty

Answer 2

1258

Question 3

Mongol invasion of Song Dynasty

Answer 3

1271

Question 4

Black Death

Answer 4

1346

Question 5

Ming Dynasty conquers Yuan Dynasty

Answer 5

1368

Question 6

Vatican passes series of Doctrine of Discovery policies

Answer 6

1452-1493

Question 7

Ottoman Conquest of Constantinople

Answer 7

1453

Question 8

Spanish Reconquista Ends

Answer 8

1490

Question 9

First encounter w/ Arawak & Spanish

Answer 9

1492

Question 10

Protestant Reformation

Answer 10

1517

Question 11

TAST begins in S. Amer

Answer 11

1526

Question 12

Mughal Empire begins on Indian Subcontinent

Answer 12

1526

Question 13

Euro Sci Rev begins

Answer 13

1543

Question 14

Russian Empire expands eastward into Siberia

Answer 14

1550

Question 15

TAS begins in N. Amer

Answer 15

1619

Question 16

Ming Dynasty collapses as Qing Dynasty begins

Answer 16

1644

Question 17

Kongo Civil War weakens African resistance to Euro

Answer 17

1666

Question 18

Glorious Revolution spurs Euro Enlightenment

Answer 18

1689

Question 19

Ind Rev Spreads

Answer 19

1750-1910

Question 20

First Wave of Revolutions in Age of Revolutions (blank-blank)

Answer 20

1776-1821

Question 21

British Invasion of China in Opium Wars

Answer 21

1838

Question 22

Taiping Rebellion intensifies

Answer 22

1850

Question 23

British Invasion of India in Sepoy Indian Rebellion

Answer 23

1857

Question 24

Origin of Species opening gates to Social Darwinism

Answer 24

1858

Question 25

Japan begins era of Meiji Restoration

Answer 25

1868

Question 26

Berlin Conference begins devastating era of Euro Imperialism in Africa

Answer 26

1884

Question 27

Manifest Destiny ends as USA takes of Pacific West Coast

Answer 27

1890

Question 28

1st Sino-Jap War (imperialism on China)

Answer 28

1895

Question 29

Failed Boxer Rebellion intensifies Euro imperialism in China

Answer 29

1900

Question 30

Russo-Jap War begins era of Japanese Imperialism in Korea

Answer 30

1905

Question 31

Xinhai Revolution brings an end to Qing Dynasty

Answer 31

1911

Question 32

First WW erupts and continues across globe

Answer 32

1914

Question 33

First WW ends

Answer 33

1919

Question 34

Bolshevik Revolution in Russia begins as world’s first communist revolution

Answer 34

1917

Question 35

Shanghai Massacre sows seeds for a civil war in China between CNP and CCP

Answer 35

1927

Question 36

Great Depression

Answer 36

1929

Question 37

Stalin’s Soviet-Russian empire begins Holodomor against Ukrainian subjects

Answer 37

1933

Question 38

Adolf Hitler is elected Chancellor of Germany

Answer 38

1933

Question 39

Second World War begins with Japanese invasion of Nanking

Answer 39

1937

Question 40

Outbreak of war in Europe with Nazi-German invasion of Poland

Answer 40

1939

Question 41

Six million Euro Jews are murdered in Holocaust

Answer 41

1941

Question 42

Dropping of atomic bombs on Japan by USA

Answer 42

1945

Question 43

Cold War Begins

Answer 43

1946

Question 44

India’s Independence from Brit marks age of Decol

Answer 44

1947-1989

Question 45

Founding of Israel

Answer 45

1948

Question 46

Chinese Communist Revolution triumphs in victory

Answer 46

1949

Question 47

Green Revolution

Answer 47

1960’s

Question 48

Digital Revolution

Answer 48

1980’s

Question 49

Islamic Revolution in Iran begins

Answer 49

1979

Question 50

9/11

Answer 50

2001

Question 51

Korean War marks new era of proxy wars of the Cold War between US and SU

Answer 51

1950-1991