| 8000 BCE - 600 BCE |
UNIT 1 |
| c. 8000 B.C.E. |
Beginnings of agriculture |
| c. 3000 B.C.E. |
Beginnings of Bronze Age-early civ’s |
| 1300 B.C.E. |
Iron Age |
| 600 BCE - 600 CE |
UNIT 2 |
| 6th C B.C.E. |
life of Buddha, Confucius, Laozi (beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, Daosim) |
| 5th C B.C.E. |
Greek Golden Age - philosophers |
| 403-221 B.C.E |
Era of Warring States |
| 323 B.C.E. |
Alexander the Great dies |
| 221 B.C.E. |
Qin Dynasty unified China |
| 184 B.C.E. |
Fall of Mauryan Dynasty |
| 32 C.E. |
Beginnings of Christianity |
| 180 |
end of Pax Romana |
| 220 |
end of Han Dynasty |
| 312 |
Emperor Constantine converts to Christianity |
| 333 |
Roman capital moved to Constantinople |
| 4th C |
Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes |
| 476 |
“Fall” of Rome |
| 527 |
Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire |
| 550 |
Fall of Gupta Dynasty/Empire |
| 600 CE - 1450 CE |
UNIT 3 |
| 622 |
Founding of Islam |
| c. 730 |
Printing invented in China |
| 732 |
Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France) |
| c. 900 |
Decline of classical Maya |
| 1054 |
Great Schism in Christian Church (Roman Catholic & Eastern Orthodox |
| 1066 |
Norman conquest of England |
| 1071 |
Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantine army) |
| 1095 |
1st Crusade |
| 1206 |
Chinggis Khan begins Mongol conquests |
| 1215 |
Magna Carta signed in England |
| 1258 |
Mongols sack Baghdad, end of Abbasid caliphate |
| 1271-1295 |
Marco Polo’s travels |
| 1279-1368 |
Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty in China |
| 1324 |
Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage |
| 1325-1349 |
travels of Ibn Battuta |
| 1347-1348 |
Bubonic plague in Europe |
| 1368-1644 |
Ming Dynasty |
| 1405-1433 |
Zheng He’s voyages |
| 1438 |
Rise of Inca Empire |
| 1450 CE - 1750 CE |
UNIT 4 |
| 1453 |
Ottomans capture Constantinople |
| 1450s |
Printing Press in Europe (Gutenberg) |
| ca 1480s |
Height of Aztec Empire |
| 1488 |
Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope |
| 1492 |
Columbus/Reconquista of Spain |
| 1502 |
1st African Slaves to Americas |
| 1517 |
Martin Luther/Prot Reformation |
| 1521 |
Cortez conquered the Aztecs |
| 1529 |
1st unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna (under Suleiman) |
| 1533 |
Pizarro toppled the Inca |
| 1545 |
Discovery of silver at Potosí |
| 1571 |
Battle of Lepanto (Ottoman naval defeat) |
| 1571 |
1st Manila Galleon (global trade) |
| 1588 |
Spanish Armada |
| 1600 |
Battle of Sekigahara (beg of Tokugawa Shogunate) |
| 1607 |
foundation of Jamestown |
| 1618-1648 |
30 Years War |
| 1644 |
end of Ming/beg of Qing Dynasty |
| 1653 |
Cape Town colony founded (Dutch) |
| 1683 |
2nd unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna (Mehmet IV) |
| 1689 |
Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights |
| 1750 CE - 1900 CE |
UNIT 5 |
| 1756-1763 |
7 Years War (French and Indian War) |
| 1767 |
Invention of the Spinning Jenny (using machines to manufacture) |
| 1776 |
Decl. of Independence (American Rev) |
| 1776 |
Smith writes Wealth of Nations |
| 1789 |
French Revolution begins |
| 1796 |
Jenner’s smallpox vaccine |
| 1804 |
Haitian independence |
| 1807 |
British abolish Trans-Atlantic slave trade |
| 1807-08 |
Janissary Revolt |
| 1815 |
Congress of Vienna |
| 1820s |
Independence in Latin America |
| 1839 |
1st Opium War in China |
| 1839-1878 |
Tanzimat Reforms |
| 1848 |
Marx & Engles’ The Communist Manifesto |
| 1848-1849 |
European revolutions |
| 1853 |
Commodore Perry opens Japan |
| 1857 |
Sepoy Mutiny |
| 1861 |
end of Russian serfdom |
| 1861-1865 |
U.S. Civil War |
| 1861-1870 |
Italian unification |
| 1863 |
U.S. Emancipation Proclamation |
| 1871 |
German unification |
| 1885 |
Berlin Conference division of Africa (begins “Scramble for Africa”) |
| 1893 |
New Zealand grants women suffrage |
| 1896 |
Battle of Adowa (Ethiopians defeat Italians) |
| 1898 |
Spanish-American War (US acquires Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico) |
| 1899-1902 |
Boer War (British in control of S Africa) |
| 1900 CE - PRESENT |
UNIT 6 |
| 1905 |
Russo-Japanese war |
| 1910-1920 |
Mexican Revolution (Diaz overthrown) |
| 1911 |
Chinese Revolution (end of Qing) |
| 1914-1918 |
World War I |
| 1917 March |
Russian Revolution (Czar Abdicates) |
| 1917 Oct/Nov |
Russian Revolution (Communist/Bolshevik) |
| 1918 Nov |
Armistice (end of WWI fighting) |
| 1919 |
Treaty of Versailles |
| 1928 |
Kellogg-Briand Pact (outlawing war) |
| 1929 |
stock market crash |
| 1931 |
Japanese invasion of Manchuria |
| 1935 |
Italian invasion of Ethiopia |
| 1937 |
Japanese invasion of (rest of) China (rape of Nanking) |
| 1939 |
German blitzkrieg in Poland |
| 1941 |
Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII |
| 1945 Feb |
Yalta Conference (beg of Cold War?) |
| 1945 Aug |
Hiroshima/Nagasaki |
| 1945 Sept |
end of WWII (Japan surrenders) |
| 1947 June |
Truman Doctrine (“official” decl of Cold War) |
| 1947 Aug |
independence & partition of India |
| 1948 |
birth of Israel |
| 1948-49 |
Berlin Blockade/Airlift |
| 1949 Apr |
NATO founded |
| 1949 Oct |
Chinese Communist Revolution |
| 1950-1953 |
Korean War |
| 1954 |
Vietnam expels France (Dien Bien Phu) |
| 1955 |
Bandung Conf (Non-Aligned Nations) |
| 1956 Feb |
Khrushchev begins de-Stalinization |
| 1956 Fall |
Nationalization of Suez Canal |
| 1957 |
Sputnik |
| 1959 |
Cuban Revolution (Fidel Castro) |
| 1962 |
Cuban Missile Crisis |
| 1966-1976 |
Chinese Cultural Revolution |
| 1967 |
6-Day War |
| 1973 |
Yom Kippur war (OPEC Oil Embargo) |
| 1979 |
Iranian Revolution |
| 1979 |
China begins “Socialist Market Economy” reforms (Deng Xiaoping) |
| 1987 |
1st Palestinian Intifada |
| 1989 June |
Tiananmen Square |
| 1989 Nov |
fall of Berlin Wall |
| 1990 |
Namibia gains independence (last African colony) |
| 1991 Jan |
1st Persian Gulf war |
| 1991 Dec |
USSR disbands |
| 1994 Apr-July |
genocide in Rwanda |
| 1994 Apr |
1st all race elections in S. Africa |
| 2001 |
9/11 Attacks |
| 2003 |
US invades Iraq |
| 2004 |
Facebook founded |
| 2007 |
Global “Great Recession” begins |
| 2011 |
Wikileaks, “Arab Spring” democracy |
