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== Units 5-6, 1750 to 1900 == | == Units 5-6, 1750 to 1900 == |
Revision as of 17:43, 13 May 2022
AP World History: Modern timeline, 1200-present
Article purpose:
- timeline via sortable chart columns
- associate time, place, theme and make connections
Units 1-2, 1200 to 1450[edit | edit source]
Dates | Place/Empire | Region | Place | Theme 1 | Theme 2 | Main Ideas/ Notes | Other |
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750-1258 | Abbasid Caliphate
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West Asia & North Africa | MidEast | religion | Islam |
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960-1279 | Song Dynasty | China | |||||
1095-1492 | Crusades | Europe | religion | ||||
1173-1206 | Ghurid dynasty
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South Asia | cultural diffusion | Islam |
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1206-1526 | Delhi Sultanate
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South Asia | cultural diffusion | Islam |
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1206-1277 | Genghis Khan | Asia | Mongolia | ||||
1215 | Magna Carta | Europe | England | ||||
1258 | Abbasid Caliphate ends | West Asia |
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1271-1285 | Mongol invasion of Japan fails | ||||||
1260 | Mongol Empire divided into 4 khanates | ||||||
1271-1295 | Marco Polo's travels | ||||||
1260-1350 | Pax Mongolia | ||||||
1279 | peak of Mongol Empire | ||||||
1279-1368 | Yuan Dynasty in China (Mongol rule) | ||||||
1282 | introduction of water-powered paper-mill " | China | technology | ||||
1299-1923 | Ottoman Empire | ||||||
1400-1600 | Italian Renaissance | ||||||
1324 | Mansa Musa pilgrimage to Mecca | ||||||
1325 | Tenochitlan founded | ||||||
1325-1354 | Ibn Battuta's travels | ||||||
1336-1646 | Vijayanagara Empire | India | cultural diffusion | religion |
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1346 | Black Death in China | ||||||
1347-1388 | Black Death in Europe | ||||||
1351-1368 | Red Turban Rebellion | ||||||
1353 | gunpower perfected in Germany; first European cannon | Europe | China | technology | cultural diffusion | with improved metalworking, increased firing range and durability over early Chinese and Middle Eastern guns |
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1368-1644 | Ming Dynasty | ||||||
1405-1433 | Zheng He's treasure voyages | ||||||
1428-1521 | Aztec Empire | ||||||
1438-1533 | Inca Empire | ||||||
1440 | Swahili city-states | ||||||
1440 | Guteneberg invents printing press | ||||||
1400s | Portuguese caravel developed | ||||||
1441 | Atlantic slave trade in Atlantic islands |
Units 3-4, 1450-1750[edit | edit source]
Dates | Place/Empire | Region | Place | Theme 1 | Theme 2 | Main Ideas/ Notes | Other |
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1453 | Ottoman conquest of Constantinople & collapse of Byzantine empire | Europe | empire | ||||
1453-1736 | Gunpowder empires
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South Asia | West Asia | technology | economy |
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1450s-1480s | Russia overthrows Mongol rule in Moscow | ||||||
1464-1591 | Songhai Empire | ||||||
1469 | Sikhism begins | ||||||
1492 | Reconquista of Spain completed | ||||||
1492 | Columbus's 1st voyage to Americas | ||||||
1498 | Vasco da Gama reaches India | ||||||
1501-1722 | Safavid Empire | ||||||
1534 | African slaves trade to Americas starts | ||||||
1509-1543 | Nzinga Mbemba (Afonso I) rules Kongo Empire | ||||||
1517 | Martin Luther's 95 Theses | ||||||
1519-1521 | Magellan voyage around the world | ||||||
1526-1748 | Mughal Empire
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South Asia | India | religion |
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1534 | France claims St. Lawrence riverway (Quebec colony) | ||||||
1543 | Copernicus / heliocentric universe | ||||||
1545 | Potosi mine opened in Bolivia | ||||||
1550-1700 | Scientific Revolution | ||||||
1552 | Russian Empire begins | ||||||
1556-1605 | Akbar the Great of the Mughal Empire | ||||||
1571 | Manila founded by Spanish | ||||||
1595 | Dutch "Fluyt" cargo ship introduced | ||||||
1600 | British East India Company founded | ||||||
1600-1826 | Tokugawa shogunate | ||||||
1602 | Dutch East India Company founded | ||||||
1607 | Britain begins colonizing the Americas with Jamestown | ||||||
1623-1641 | Tokugawa Iemitsu rules Japan | ||||||
1632 | Taj Mahal built | ||||||
1643-1715 | Louis XIV rules France | ||||||
1652 | Boers colonize South Africa | ||||||
1674-1818 | Maratha Empire or Confederacy | South Asia | India | ||||
1687 | Newton publishes Principia | ||||||
1688-1911/12 | Qing (Manchu) Empire | ||||||
Peter the Great rules Russia | |||||||
1689 | Glorious Revolution in England | ||||||
1698 | Early steam engine invented | ||||||
The Enlightenment |
Units 5-6, 1750 to 1900[edit | edit source]
Dates | Place/Empire | Region | Place | Theme 1 | Theme 2 | Main Ideas/ Notes | Other |
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1756-1763 | Seven Years' War | ||||||
1757 | Battle of Plassey in India | ||||||
1760-1789 | First Industrial Revolution | ||||||
1765-1783 | American Revolution | ||||||
1776 | Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith published | ||||||
1776 | Declaration of Independence | ||||||
1789-1795 | French Revolution | ||||||
1791-1804 | Haitian Revolution | ||||||
1792 | Mary Wollstonecraft' "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" | ||||||
1793 | Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin | ||||||
1799-1815 | Napoleonic period | ||||||
1806-1826 | Latin American revolutions/ Bolivar | ||||||
1815 | Congress of Vienna | ||||||
1839-1860 | Opium Wars | ||||||
1839-1876 | Ottoman Tanzimat reforms | ||||||
1845-1849 | Irish potato famine | ||||||
1848 | Communist Manifesto published | ||||||
1848 | Seneca Falls Convention | ||||||
1850-1864 | Taiping Rebellion | ||||||
1854 | Commodore Perry opens Japan | ||||||
1857 | Sepoy Rebellion | ||||||
1859-1869 | Suez Canal built | ||||||
1861 | emancipation of Russian serfs | ||||||
1863 | Emancipation Proclamation in U.S. | ||||||
1865-1909 | King Leopold rule of Congo | ||||||
1868 | Meiji Restoration in Japan | ||||||
1870-1914 | Second Industrial Revolution | ||||||
1871 | Germany unified under Otto von Bismarck | ||||||
1885 | Berlin Conference & the "scramble for Africa | ||||||
1890s | European spheres of influence in China | ||||||
1896 | Battle of Adowa (Ethiopia) | ||||||
1898 | Spanish-American War | ||||||
1899 | Boer War | ||||||
1899 | United Fruit Company formed | ||||||
1899-1901 | Boxer Rebellion |
Units 7-9, 1900 to Present[edit | edit source]
Dates | Place/Empire | Region | Place | Theme 1 | Theme 2 | Main Ideas/ Notes | Other |
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1904 | U.S. starts Panama Canal | ||||||
1904-1905 | Russo-Japanese War | ||||||
1906 | Muslim League founded | ||||||
1910-1920 | Mexican Revolution | ||||||
1914-1918 | World War I | ||||||
1915-1917 | Armenian genocide | ||||||
1917 | Russian revolution | ||||||
1917 | Zimmerman telegram & US entry to WWI | ||||||
1920 | League of Nations established | ||||||
1922 | Stalin assumes Soviet leadership | ||||||
1922 | Ottoman empire ends | ||||||
1923 | Turkey established | ||||||
1927-1936 | Chinese Civil War | ||||||
1929-1939 | worldwide economic depressions | ||||||
1931 | Japanese invasion of Manchuria | ||||||
1933-39 | New Deal | ||||||
1936-1938 | Great Purge in USSR | ||||||
1939-1945 | World War II | ||||||
1941 | Pearl Harbor attack | ||||||
1941-1945 | Holocaust | ||||||
1941-1953 | Stalin total rule | ||||||
1943-1949 | Greek civil war | ||||||
1943-1978 | Green Revolution | ||||||
1945-1950 | Chinese Communist Revolution | ||||||
1945 | atomic bombs dropped | ||||||
1946 | Philippine independence | ||||||
1947 | Partition of India | ||||||
1947 | Japanese Empire formally ended | ||||||
1947 | Truman Doctrine | ||||||
1947-1990 | Cold War | ||||||
1948 | Israel founded | ||||||
1949 | NATO established | ||||||
1950-1953 | Korean War | ||||||
1953-1959 | Cuban Revolution | ||||||
1955 | Warsaw Pact founded | ||||||
1955 | Bandung Conference | ||||||
1955 | Polio vaccine introduced | ||||||
1955-1975 | Vietnam War | ||||||
1956 | Khrushchev takes power | ||||||
1958-1962 | Great Leap Forward/ Cultural Revolution | ||||||
1960 | "Year of Africa" | ||||||
1961 | President Eisenhower warns of "military-industrial complex" | ||||||
1962 | Cuban Missile Crisis | ||||||
1966-1976 | Cultural Revolution | ||||||
1973-1990 | Pinochet coup | ||||||
1977-1989 | Deng Xiaoping assumes power | ||||||
1979 | Iranian Revolution | ||||||
1989 | Tiananmen Square protests | ||||||
1989 | fall of the Berlin Wall | ||||||
1990 | collapse of USSR | ||||||
1990 | Apartheid ended | ||||||
1991 | Gulf War | ||||||
1994 | Rwandan genocide | ||||||
2001 | Sept 11 attacks | ||||||
2003+ | War on Terrorism | ||||||
2011 | Arab Spring |