AP World History Must Know Dates Timeli
AP World History Must Know Dates Timeline
To 600 B.C.E.
8000 B.C.E. - Beginnings of agriculture
3000 B.C.E. - Beginnings of Bronze Age - early civ’s
18th C B.C.E.-Hammurabi’s Code
1500 B.C.E.-Early alphabetic script
1300 B.C.E. - Iron Age
10th-7th C B.C.E. Assyrian Empire
600 B.C.E. - 600 CE
6th century B.C.E. - life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu(beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism,Taosim)
5th C B.C.E. - Greek Golden Age - philosophers.
323 B.C.E. - Alexander the Great
221 B.C.E. - Qin unified China
32 C.E. - Beginnings of Christianity
180 C.E. - end of Pax Romana
220 C.E. - end of Han Dynasty
333 - Roman capital moved to Constantinople
4th C - Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes
476 - Fall of Rome
527 - Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire
600-1450
632 - Rise of Islam
732 - Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France)
1054 - 1st Schism in Christian Church
1066 - Norman conquest of England
1071 - Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byz)
1095 - 1st Crusade
1258 - Mongols sack Baghdad
1271-1295 - Marco Polo travels
1324 - Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage
1325-1349 - travels of Ibn Battuta
1347-1348 - Bubonic plague in Europe
1433 - end of Zheng He’s voyages/Rise of Ottomans
1450-1750
1453 - Ottomans capture Constantinople
1488 - Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope
1492 - Columbus sailed the ocean blue/ Reconquista of
Spain
1502 - Slaves to Americas
1517 - Martin Luther/95 theses
1521- Cortez conquered the Aztecs
1533- Pizarro toppled the Inca
1571 - Battle of Lepanto, (naval defeat of Ottomans)
1588 - defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British
1600 - Battle of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa
1607 - foundation of Jamestown
1618-1648 - 30 years war
1683- unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna
1689 - Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights
1750-1900
Industrial Revolution
1756-1763 -7 years war/French and Indian War
1776 - American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of
Nations
1789 - French Revolution
1804 - Haitian independence
1815 - Congress of Vienna
1820s-
To 600 B.C.E.
8000 B.C.E. - Beginnings of agriculture
3000 B.C.E. - Beginnings of Bronze Age - early civ’s
18th C B.C.E.-Hammurabi’s Code
1500 B.C.E.-Early alphabetic script
1300 B.C.E. - Iron Age
10th-7th C B.C.E. Assyrian Empire
600 B.C.E. - 600 CE
6th century B.C.E. - life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu(beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism,Taosim)
5th C B.C.E. - Greek Golden Age - philosophers.
323 B.C.E. - Alexander the Great
221 B.C.E. - Qin unified China
32 C.E. - Beginnings of Christianity
180 C.E. - end of Pax Romana
220 C.E. - end of Han Dynasty
333 - Roman capital moved to Constantinople
4th C - Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes
476 - Fall of Rome
527 - Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire
600-1450
632 - Rise of Islam
732 - Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France)
1054 - 1st Schism in Christian Church
1066 - Norman conquest of England
1071 - Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byz)
1095 - 1st Crusade
1258 - Mongols sack Baghdad
1271-1295 - Marco Polo travels
1324 - Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage
1325-1349 - travels of Ibn Battuta
1347-1348 - Bubonic plague in Europe
1433 - end of Zheng He’s voyages/Rise of Ottomans
1450-1750
1453 - Ottomans capture Constantinople
1488 - Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope
1492 - Columbus sailed the ocean blue/ Reconquista of
Spain
1502 - Slaves to Americas
1517 - Martin Luther/95 theses
1521- Cortez conquered the Aztecs
1533- Pizarro toppled the Inca
1571 - Battle of Lepanto, (naval defeat of Ottomans)
1588 - defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British
1600 - Battle of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa
1607 - foundation of Jamestown
1618-1648 - 30 years war
1683- unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna
1689 - Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights
1750-1900
Industrial Revolution
1756-1763 -7 years war/French and Indian War
1776 - American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of
Nations
1789 - French Revolution
1804 - Haitian independence
1815 - Congress of Vienna
1820s-