AP World History: Modern time line
AP World History: Modern timeline, 1200-present
Article purpose: timeline w/ sortable chart for themes and places
| Dates | Place/Empire |
|---|---|
| Units 1-2, 1200 to 1450 | |
| 750-1258 | Abbasid Caliphate, Dar-al-Islam |
| 960-1279 | Song Dynasty |
| 1095-1492 | Crusades |
| 1206-1526 | Delhi Sultanate |
| 1206-1277 | Genghis Khan |
| 1215 | Magna Carta |
| 1258 | Abbasid Caliphate ends |
| 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 " |
| 1299-1923 | Ottoman Empire |
| 1400-1600 | Italian Renaissance |
| 1324 | Mansa Musa pilgrimage to Mecca |
| 1325 | Tenochitlan founded |
| 1325-1354 | Ibn Battuta's travels |
| 1346 | Black Death in China |
| 1347-1388 | Black Death in Europe |
| 1351-1368 | Red Turban Rebellion |
| 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 | |
| 1453 | Ottoman conquest of Constantinople |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |