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AP World Timeline
AP World Timeline Studying
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 1206 | Genghis Khan crowned |
| 1258 | Mongols conquer Abbasid Caliphate |
| 1279 | Kublai Khan conquers Song Dynasty in China |
| 1312-1337 | Mansa Musa rules Mali |
| 1325 | Mexica found Tenochtitlan as Aztec capital |
| 1405-1433 | Zheng He leads Ming treasure voyages |
| c. 1450 | Gutenberg invents European printing press |
| 1453 | Ottomans conquer Constantinople |
| 1492 | Columbus finds New World |
| 1509-1542 | Afonso I rules Kongo Empire |
| 1517 | Luther posts 95 Theses; start of Protestant Reformation |
| 1543 | Copernicus publishes heliocentric model |
| 1556-1605 | Akbar rules Mughal Empire |
| 1607 | Jamestown founded |
| 1682-1725 | Peter the Great rules Russia |
| 1712 | Newcomen invents early steam engine |
| 1756-1763 | Seven Years’ War |
| 1757 | Battle of Plassey starts English colonization of India |
| 1775 | American Revolution begins |
| 1776 | Adam Smith publishes Wealth of Nations |
| 1789 | French Revolution begins |
| 1791 | Haitian Revolution begins |
| 1842 | Treaty of Nanjing ends 1st Opium War |
| 1848 | Communist Manifesto published |
| 1857 | Sepoy Mutiny in India against British |
| 1868 | Meiji Restoration in Japan |
| 1870 | Unifications of Germany & Italy |
| 1880 | Edison patents electric lamp |
| 1898 | Spanish-American War |
| 1911 | Chinese Revolution ends dynastic rule |
| 1914-1918 | World War I |
| c. 1917 | Success of women’s suffrage movements |
| 1917 | Communist Revolution in Russia |
| 1929 | Stock Market Crash starts Great Depression |
| 1939-1945 | World War II |
| c. 1950 | Beginning of Green Revolution |
| 1977 | First PCs sold |
| 1990 | Apartheid ends in South Africa |
| 2004 | Human Genome Project sequences human DNA |