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AP World History: Modern timeline, 1200-present
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| Units 1-2, 1200 to 1450
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|750-1258
|Abbasid Caliphate, Dar-al-Islam
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|960-1279
| Song Dynasty
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|1095-1492
|Crusades
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| 1206-1526
|Delhi Sultanate
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|1206-1277
|Genghis Khan
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| 1215
|Magna Carta
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| 1258
|Mongols take Baghdad| Abbasid Caliphate ends
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|1271-1285
|Mongol invasion of Japan fails
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| 1260
|Mongol Empire divided into 4 khanates
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| 1271-1295
|Marco Polo's travels
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| 1260-1350
|Pax Mongolia
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|1279
|peak of Mongol Empire
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| 1279-1368
|Yuan Dynasty in China (Mongol rule)
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|1282
|introduction of water-powered paper-mill "
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| 1299-1923
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|Ottoman Empire
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| 1400-1600
|Italian Renaissance
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| 1324
|Mansa Musa's pilgrimage to Mecca
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| 1325
|Tenochitlan founded
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| 1325-1354
|Ibn Battuta's travels
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| 1346
|Black Death in China
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| 1347-1388
|Black Death in Europe
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| 1351-1368
|Red Turban Rebellion
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| 1368-1644
|Ming Dynasty
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| 1405-1433
|Zheng He's treasure voyages
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| 1428-1521
|Aztec Empire
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| 1438-1533
|Inca Empire
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| 1440
|Swahili city-states
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| 1440
|Guteneberg invents printing press
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| 1400s
|Portuguese caravel developed
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| 1441
|Atlantic slave trade in Atlantic islands
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| Units 3-4, 1450-1750
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| 1453
|Ottoman conquest of Constantinople
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| 1450s-1480s
|Russia overthrows Mongol rule in Moscow
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| 1464-1591
|Songhai Empire
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| 1469
|Sikhism begins
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| 1492
|Reconquista of Spain completed
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| 1492
|Columbus's 1st voyage to Americas
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| 1498
|Vasco da Gama reaches India
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| 1501-1722
|Safavid Empire
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| 1534
|African slaves trade to Americas starts
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| 1509-1543
|Nzinga Mbemba (Afonso I) rules Kongo Empire
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| 1517
|Martin Luther's 95 Theses
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| 1519-1521
|Magellan voyage around the world
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| 1526-1748
|Mughal Empire
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| 1534
|France claims St. Lawrence riverway (Quebec colony)
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| 1543
|Copernicus / heliocentric universe
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| 1545
|Potosi mine opened in Bolivia
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| 1550-1700
|Scientific Revolution
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| 1552
|Russian Empire begins
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| 1556-1605
|Akbar the Great of the Mughal Empire
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| 1571
|Manila founded by Spanish
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| 1595
|Dutch "Fluyt" cargo ship introduced
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| 1600
|British East India Company founded
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| 1600-1826
|Tokugawa shogunate
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| 1602
|Dutch East India Company founded
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| 1607
|Britain begins colonizing the Americas with Jamestown
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| 1623-1641
|Tokugawa Iemitsu rules Japan
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| 1632
|Taj Mahal built
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| 1643-1715
|Louis XIV rules France
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| 1652
|Boers colonize South Africa
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| 1687
|Newton publishes Principia
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| 1688-1911/12
|Qing (Manchu) Empire
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| 1689-1725 |Peter the Great rules Russia
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| 1689
|Glorious Revolution in England
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| 1698
|Early steam engine invented
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| 1715-1789 |The Enlightenment
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| Units 5-6, 1750 to 1900
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| 1756-1763
|Seven Years' War
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| 1757
|Battle of Plassey in India
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| 1760-1789
|First Industrial Revolution
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|1765-1783
|American Revolution
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|1776
|Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith published
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|1776
|Declaration of Independence
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| 1789-1795
|French Revolution
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| 1791-1804
|Haitian Revolution
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| 1792
|Mary Wollstonecraft' "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"
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| 1793
|Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin
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| 1799-1815
|Napoloeonic period
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| 1806-1826
|Latin American revolutions/ Bolivar
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| 1815
|Congress of Vienna
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| 1839-1860
|Opium Wars
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| 1839-1876
|Ottoman Tanzimat reforms
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| 1845-1849
|Irish potato famine
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| 1848
|Communist Manifesto published
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| 1848
|Seneca Falls Convention
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| 1850-1864
|Taiping Rebellion
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| 1854
|Commodore Perry opens Japan
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| 1857
|Sepoy Rebellion
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| 1859-1869
|Suez Canal built
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| 1861
|emancipation of Russian serfs
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| 1863
|Emancipation Proclamation in U.S.
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| 1865-1909
|King Leopold rule of Congo
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| 1868
|Meiji Restoration in Japan
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| 1870-1914
|Second Industrial Revolution
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| 1871
|Germany unified under Otto von Bismarck
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| 1885
|Berlin Conference & the "scramble for Africa
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| 1890s
|European spheres of influence in China
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| 1896
|Battle of Adowa (Ethiopia)
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| 1898
|Spanish-American War|United States
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| 1899
|Boer War
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| 1899
|United Fruit Company formed
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| 1899-1901
|Boxer Rebellion
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| Units 7-9, 1900 to Present
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| 1904
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| U.S. starts Panama Canal
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| 1904-1905
| Russo-Japanese War
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| 1906
| Muslim League founded
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| 1910-1920
|Mexican Revolution
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| 1914-1918
|World War I
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| 1915-1917
|Armenian genocide
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| 1917
|Russian revolution
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| 1917
|Zimmerman telegram & US entry to WWI
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| 1920
|League of Nations established
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| 1922
| Stalin assumes Soviet leadership
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| 1922
| Ottoman empire ends
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| 1923
|Turkey established
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| 1927-1936
|Chinese Civil War
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| 1929-1939
|worldwide economic depressions
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| 1931
|Japanese invasion of Manchuria
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| 1933-39
|New Deal
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| 1936-1938
|Great Purge in USSR
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| 1939-1945
|World War II
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| 1941
| Pearl Harbor attack
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| 1941-1945
|Holocaust
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| 1941-1953
|Stalin total rule
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| 1943-1949
|Greek civil war
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| 1943-1978
|Green Revolution
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| 1945-1950
|Chinese Communist Revolution
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| 1945
|atomic bombs dropped
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| 1946
|Philippine independence
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| 1947
|Partition of India
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| 1947
|Japanese Empire formally ended
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| 1947
|Truman Doctrine
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| 1947-1990
|Cold War
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| 1948
|Israel founded
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| 1949
|NATO established
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| 1950-1953
|Korean War
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| 1953-1959
|Cuban Revolution
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| 1955
|Warsaw Pact founded
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| 1955
|Bandung Conference
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| 1955
|Polio vaccine introduced
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| 1955-1975
|Vietnam War
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| 1956
|Khrushchev takes power
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| 1958-1962
|Great Leap Forward/ Cultural Revolution
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| 1960
|"Year of Africa"
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| 1961
|President Eisenhower warns of "military-industrial complex"
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| 1962
|Cuban Missile Crisis
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| 1966-1976
|Cultural Revolution
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| 1973-1990
|Pinochet coup
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| 1977-1989
|Deng Xiaoping assumes contorl
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| 1979
|Iranian Revolution
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| 1989
|Tiananmen Square protests
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| 1989
|fall of the Berlin Wall
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| 1990
|collapse of USSR
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| 1990
|Apartheid ended
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| 1991
| Gulf War
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| 1994
|Rwandan genocide
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| 2001
|Sept 11 attacks
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| 2003+
| War on Terrorism
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| 2011
|Arab Spring
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AP World History: Modern timeline, 1200-present
Article purpose: timeline w/ sortable chart for themes and places