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APWH Dates 1
Term | Definition |
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Alexander The Great | 323 BCE |
Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes | 4th Century |
Beginnings of Christianity | 32 |
Beginnings of Agriculture | 8000 BCE |
Beginnings of Bronze Age - and Early Civilizations | 3000 BCE |
End of Han Dynasty | 220 |
End of Pax Romana | 180 |
Fall of Rome | 476 |
Greek Golden Age - philosophers, etc. | 5th Century BCE |
Iron Age | 1300 BCE |
Justinian Rule of Byzantine Empire | 527 |
Life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tzu (Beginnings of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism) | 6th Century BCE |
Qin Unified China | 221 BCE |
Roman Capital moved to Constantinople | 333 |
Fall of Mauryan Dynasty | 184 bCE |
Fall of Gupta | 550 |
Founding of Islam | 622 |
Printing Invented in CHina | Ca 730 |
Battle of Tours | 732 |
Decline of Classical Maya | Ca 900 |
Great Schism | 1054 |
Norman conquest of England | 1066 |
Battle of Manzikert | 1071 |
1st Crusade | 1095 |
Chinggis Khan begins Mongol conquests | 1206 |
Mongols sack Baghdad | 1258 |
Marco Polo's Travels | 1271-1295 |
Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty in China | 1279-1368 |
Mansa Musa's pilgrimage | 1324 |
Travels of Ibn Battuta | 1325-1349 |
Bubonic Plague in Europe | 1347-1348 |
Ming Dynasty | 1368-1644 |
Zhang He's voyages | 1405-1433 |
Rise of Inca Empire | 1438 |
Ottomans capture Constantinople | 1453 |
Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope | 1488 |
Columbus/Reconquista of spain | 1492 |
1st slaves to the Americas | 1502 |
Martin Luther/95 theses | 1517 |
Cortez conquered the Aztecs | 1521 |
Pizarro toppled the Inca | 1533 |
Battle of Lepanto (defeat of Ottoman Navy) | 1571 |
Defeat of Spanish Armada by the British | 1588 |
Battle of Sekigahara - unification of Japan - beginning of Tokugawa rule | 1600 |
Foundation of Jamestown | 1607 |
30 years war | 1618-1648 |
Unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna | 1683 |
Glorious Revolution/ English bill of rights | 1689 |
7 years war/French and indian war | 1756-1763 |
Invention of spinning jenny | 1767 |
American revolution/Smith writes wealth of nations | 1776 |
French revolution begins | 1789 |
Jenner's smallpox vaccine | 1796 |
Haitian independence | 1804 |
BriTish abolition of transatlantiC slave trade | 1807 |
Congress of Vienna | 1815 |
Independence of Latin America | 1820s |
1st opium war in China | 1839 |
European revolutions/Communist manifesto | 1848 |
Commodore Perry opens Japan | 1853 |
Sepoy mutiny | 1857 |
End of Russian serfdom/italian unification | 1861 |
Emancipation proclamation | 1863 |
German unification | 1871 |
Berlin conference (division of Africa) | 1885 |
New Zealand grants women's suffrage | 1893 |
Battle of adowa (Ethiopians defeat Italians) | 1896 |
Spanish American war | 1898 |
Boer war | 1899-1902 |