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WHAP Must-Know Dates
Must-Know Dates
Question | Answer |
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1206 C.E. | Chinggis Khan unites Mongol clans, begins Mongol conquests |
1258 C.E. | Mongols sack Baghdad, end of Abbasid caliphate |
1271-1295 C.E. | Marco Polo travels to China |
1279-1368 C.E. | Yuan Dynasty in China |
1325-1349 C.E. | travels of Ibn Battuta |
1324 C.E. | Mansa Musa makes the hajj |
1347-1348 C.E. | Bubonic Plague in Europe |
1368-1644 C.E. | Ming Dynasty |
1405-1433 C.E. | Zheng He's voyages |
1438 C.E. | Rise of Inca Empire |
1453 C.E. | Ottomans capture Constantinople |
1450s C.E. | Gutenberg printing press in Europe |
c. 1480s C.E. | height of Aztec Empire |
1488 C.E. | Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope |
1492 C.E. | Columbus lands in Americas |
1502 C.E. | 1st African slaves in Americas |
1517 C.E. | Martin Luther posts 95 Theses/Protestant Reformation |
1618-1648 C.E. | Thirty Years War |
1689 C.E. | Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights |
1756-1763 | 7 Years War |
1776 | Declaration of Independence |
1789 | French Revolution Begins |
1804 | Haitian Independence |
1807 | British abolish slave trade |
1820s | Independence in Latin America |
1839 | Opium War in China |
1839-1878 | Tanzimat Reforms |
1848 | Communist Manifesto |
1853 | Commodore Perry "opens" Japan |
1857 | Sepoy Rebellion |
1861 | Russia ends serfdom |
1861-1865 | U.S. Civil War |
1885 | Berlin Conference (Scramble for Africa) |
1898 | Spanish-American War |
1533 | Pizarro conquers Inca |
1521 | Cortez conquers Aztec |
1618-1648 | 30 Years War |
1644-1911 | Qing Dynasty |
1917 | Russian Revolution |
1914-1918 | World War I |
1929 | U.S. Stock Market Crash |
1931 | Japanese invasion of Manchuria |
1937 | Japanese invasion of rest of China/Rape of Nanking |
1939 | German invasion of Poland (beginning of WWII) |
1941 | Pearl Harbor |
1945 | End of World War II |
1947 | Independence and partition of India |
1948 | Creation of Israel |
1949 | NATO founded |
1949 | Chinese Communist win civil war |
1950-1953 | Korean War |
1959 | Fidel Castro leads Cuban Revolution |
1961-1989 | Berlin Wall |
1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis |
1979 | Iranian Revolution |
1989 | Tiananmen Square demonstrations |
1991 | USSR disbands |
2001 | September 11 terrorist attacks on World Trade Center |
2011 | Arab Spring |
2003 | US invades Iraq |