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 | Region | Theme | Theme 2 | Notes | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Units 1-2, 1200 to 1450 | ||||||
| 750-1258 | Abbasid Caliphate | Mideast | religion | Islam | Dar al-Islam, Pax Islamica |
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| 960-1279 | Song Dynasty | China | ||||
| 1095-1492 | Crusades | Europe | religion | |||
| 1206-1526 | Delhi Sultanate | South Asia | religion | Islam | ||
| 1206-1277 | Genghis Khan | Asia | ||||
| 1215 | Magna Carta | Europe | ||||
| 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 " | 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 | |||||
| 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 |