Date | Event |
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 |