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WHAP Must-Know Dates
Must-Know Dates
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |