Time Period I & II (Foundations and Classical Period 8000BCE-600CE)
1. BCE 8000- Beginnings of Agriculture
2. BCE 4000- Sumerian city-states: technological revolution
3. BCE 3000- Beginnings of the Bronze Age
4. BCE 3100- Rise of Egypt
5. BCE 2500- Rise Indus Valley civilization
6. BCE 1750- Code of Hammurabi
7. BCE 1500- Early alphabetic script (Phoenician)
8. BCE 1500- Shang dynasty rules China
9. BCE 1300- Start of the Iron Age
10. BCE 1200- Olmec and Chavin in Americas
11. BCE 1122- Zhou dynasty in China
12. BCE 600- 1st Empire- Persia
13. BCE 551-220 – Life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu
14. BCE 5th Century- Greek Golden Age
15. BCE 507- Athens; democracy introduced
16. BCE 490- Sparta and Athens cooperate to defeat Persians (Delian League)
17. BCE 449- Roman Republic; 12 Tables of laws published
18. BCE 431- Peloponnesian War
19. BCE 323- Alexander the Great (King of Macedonia) conquest
20. BCE 321-232- Chandragupta Maurya creates Mauryan Empire in south Asia/ Rule of Ashoka
21. BCE 221- Qin rules in China
22. BCE 202- Han dynasty begins
23. BCE 50- Julius Caesar becomes dictator; beginning of Empire period
24. BCE 27-180- Pax Romana (Roman Empire)
25. CE 32- Beginnings of Christianity
26. CE 1-650- Teotihuacan flourishes in central Mexico
27. CE 150-800- Mayans on the Yucatan peninsula
28. CE 220- End of Han Dynasty
29. CE 319-540- Gupta Dynasty in India
30. CE 300-500 -Ghana civilization in West Africa
31. CE 300-700 –Spread of Buddhism to China
32. CE 300-900- Rise of Mayan city-states
33. CE 4th Century- Japan; Shinto; emperors descended from sun goddess
34. CE 4th Century- Mayans advance in education, technology, science.
35. CE 4th Century- Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes
36. CE 476- Fall of Rome
37. CE 527- Justinian Rule of Byzantine Empire
38. CE 589-618- Sui Dynasty Rules in China
Time Period III (Post Classical 600-1450)
39. CE 622- Rise of Islam
40. 589-618- Sui Dynasty reunited China under one centralized rule; Grand Canal
41. CE 618-907- Tang Dynasty Rules in China
42. CE 661-750- Rule of Umayyad Caliphate
43. CE 684- Split of Shi’a and Sunni
44. CE 750-1258- Rule of Abbasid Caliphate
45. CE 750- Trans-Saharan trade with Middle East - gold and slaves
46. CE 793- First Viking invasions
47. CE 794-1185- Heian (classical) period of Japan
48. CE 830- House of Wisdom founded in Baghdad
49. CE 989- Prince Vladimir (Kievan Rus) adopts Orthodoxy
50. CE 960-1127- Song Dynasty Rules In China
51. CE 1000- rise of Swahili city-states in East Africa
52. CE 1054- Great Schism in Christian Church
53. CE 1096- 1st Crusade; initiated because of Seljuk Turks attacks on the Byzantine Empire
54. CE 1200’s- Rise of Mali in West Africa
55. CE 1200-1300’s- THE MONGOL EMPIRE!
56. CE 1206- Delhi Sultanate in India
57. CE 1215- Magna Carta
58. CE 1240- Mongols conquer Kievan Rus
59. CE 1258- Mongols conquer Baghdad
60. CE 1279-1368- Yuan Dynasty Rules In China
61. CE 1271-1295- Marco Polo travels
62. CE 1324- Mansa Musa’s Pilgrimage
63. CE 1325-1349- Travels of Ibn Battuta
64. CE 1347-1348- Bubonic Plague in Europe
65. CE 1433- End of Zheng He’s voyages/Rise of the Ottomans
Time Period IV (Early Modern 1450-1750)
66. CE 14th -16th Century- European commercial revolution
67. CE 14th-16th Century- European Renaissance
68. 14th-18th Century- Little Ice Age
69. CE 15th Century- rise of Kongo Kingdom in central Africa
70. CE 15th Century- Inca redistributes land, goods for peoples benefit; socialized system of land and work
71. CE 1434- Portuguese begin visiting West Africa and initiate trade
72. CE 1438- No Aztec bureaucracy; emperor rules through native elites; no permanent army; all males serve in army
73. CE 1441- Incas Empire
74. CE 1450- Gutenberg's movable type printing press in Europe
75. CE 1453- Ottomans capture Constantinople
76. CE 1418- Prince Henry's School for Navigation
77. CE 1464-1591- Songhai Kingdom in Africa
78. CE 1471- First African slaves exported to Portugal
79. CE 1480- Ivan III wins independence from Mongols
80. CE 1488- Dias reaches the Indian Ocean
81. CE 1492- Columbus' 1st expeditions to the Americas; beginning of Columbian Exchange & subsequent Atlantic System (Triangle Trade, Middle Passage)
82. CE 1492- Reconquista completed
83. CE 1494- Treaty of Tordesillas
84. CE 1498- Portuguese reach India
85. CE 16th Century- Mercantilist system as government policy for European countries
86. CE 1517- Luther initiates Protestant Reformation; followed by a Catholic Reformation and the Councils of Trent; Henry VIII
87. CE 1519-1522- Magellan’s' expedition circumnavigates the world
88. CE 1519-1524- Cortez conquers Aztecs; encomienda systems
89. CE 1520-1566- Suleiman the Magnificent rules the Ottomans
90. CE 1526- Mughal Empire Established in India
91. CE 1533- Pizarro conquers Incas; mit’a system of Indian labor maintained
92. CE 1543- Heliocentric model of the universe
93. CE 1588-English defeat the Spanish Armada (Elizabeth I)
94. CE 1591-King Afonso of Kongo become Catholic, asks Portuguese to end slave trade
95. CE 1600’s- English, Dutch, and French settle in North America
96. CE 1600-1868- Tokugawa shogunate (Edo Period)
97. CE 1613- Romanov dynasty begins in Russia
98. CE 1618-1638- Thirty Years War in Europe over religion; Peace of Westphalia lays foundation for independent nation-states in Europe
99. CE 1643-1715- Louis XIV of France; Versailles; wars with Spain and England for colonial dominance
100. CE 1648- Taj Mahal built
Time Period V (Modern 1750-1900)
101. CE 1688-1690- Glorious Revolution in Britain; parliamentary regime; political writing of John Locke; English Bill of Rights
102. CE 1689-1725- Peter the Great westernizes/modernizes Russia; expands empire
103. CE 17th Century- Latin American colonial societies dominated by Peninsulars
104. CE 17th-18th Century- Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment help establish Western Europe's dominance; Deism
105. CE 1701- Jethro Tull's seed drill
106. CE 1750- Industrial Revolution begins with textiles, steel, steam.
107. CE 18th-19th Century- cult of domesticity
108. CE 1754-1763- French and Indian War/Seven Year's War
109. CE 1760-1820- Enclosure Acts in Britain
110. CE 1770- invention of steam engine by James Watt
111. CE 1776- Adam Smith writes An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
112. CE 1776-1783- American Revolution
113. CE 1780-1790’s - Mary Wollstonecraft Writings
114. CE 1787- US Constitution
115. CE 1789-1815- French Revolution and Napoleon; Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
116. CE 1791- Olympia de Gouges writes The Declaration of Rights of Women and the Female Citizen
117. CE 1791- Haitian Revolution begins
118. CE 1805-1849- Reign of Muhammad Ali in Egypt
119. CE 1800’s- European colonization of northern African territories
120. CE 1803- Louisiana Purchase
121. CE 1804- Haiti gains independence
122. CE 1810-1830- Latin American wars of independence from Spain
123. CE 1815- Congress of Vienna
124. CE 1827- Greece wins independence from Ottomans
125. CE 19th Century- abolition of slavery: Britain 1833, France 1848, Russia 1861, US 1865, Brazil 1888
126. CE 1830’s-1840’s- Rise of nationalism in Europe but quick return to conservative rule
127. CE 1839-1876- Ottoman Tanzimat reforms
128. CE 1840-1842- British Opium Wars force China to accept opium, open ports to European trade; extraterritoriality of Europeans = spheres of influence; Treaty of Nanjing
129. CE 1848- Marx’s Communist Manifesto
130. CE 1848- Seneca Falls Convention & The Declaration of Sentiments
131. CE 1850-1860- Taiping Rebellion, Self-Strengthening Movements seek to modernize country, prevent foreign control, influence in China
132. CE 1854-1856- Crimean War
133. CE 1857- Sepoy Rebellion
134. CE 1861- Alexander II, Russian czar emancipates the serfs
135. CE 1861-1865- US Civil War forces UK, France to plant cotton in Egypt, West Africa, India, leading to increased famines, displaced peasants
136. CE 1868- Meiji Restoration begins in Japan
137. CE 1869- Suez Canal in Egypt opened, shorting travel between Europe and Asia by months
138. CE 1870’s- unification of Germany/Prussia (<3) and Italy
139. CE 1884- Berlin Conference
140. CE 1885- Indian National Congress begins
141. CE 1894-1895- Sino-Japanese War
142. CE 1898- Partition of China and foreign influence continues
143. CE 1898- Spanish-American War
144. CE 1899- Boxer Rebellion
145. CE 1899-1902- Anglo-Boer War following British attempt to annex gold, diamond deposits in Boer Republics;
Time Period VI (Contemporary 1900-Present)
146. CE 1904-1905- Russo-Japanese War
147. CE 1906- All-India Muslim League is established
148. CE 1908- Young Turks seize power in Istanbul and sultan’s power limited
149. CE 1910-1920- Mexican Revolution
150. CE 1912- Establishment of a republic in China; Sun Yat-sen first President of China
151. CE 1914- Nationalism, militarism, imperialism, alliance systems build in Europe
152. CE 1914- Panama Canal finished
153. CE 1914-1918- World War I
154. CE 1917- UK: Balfour Declaration
155. CE 1918- Bolshevik Revolution
156. CE 1918- US President Wilson issues his Fourteen Points as a plan for peace; includes idea of League of Nations
157. CE 1919- Treaty of Versailles
158. CE 1921- Ottoman Empire partitioned; Turkey becomes a country under Mustafa Kemal (Attaturk)
159. CE 1921- Lenin begins New Economic Policy
160. CE 1922-1945- Fascists come to power in Italy
161. CE 1924-1954- Stalin rules the USSR
162. CE 1929- Stock Market crash
163. CE 1930’s- Great Depression
164. CE 1930’s- German programs against the Jews
165. CE 1931- Japan takes over Manchuria
166. CE 1935- Italy takes over Ethiopia
167. CE 1938- Munich Conference
168. CE 1939-1945- World War II
169. CE 1940-1970’s- Green Revolution - research and development to increase agricultural production (1960s emphasis in India)
170. CE 1941- Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor
171. CE 1941- Germany invades Russia
172. CE 1945- United Nations formed
173. CE 1945- Atomic bombs dropped on Japan
174. CE 1945-1991- Cold War
175. CE 1947- Truman Doctrine issued
176. CE 1947- India given independence
177. CE 1947-1960’s- decolonization - colonies win independence (Ghana; Algeria; Congo; Kenya)
178. CE 1948- Apartheid becomes policy in South Africa
179. CE 1948- India partitioned into Hindu, Muslim states
180. CE 1948- Israel is created and Palestine is partitioned giving the Jews a portion of the country
181. CE 1949- NATO formed
182. CE 1949- Mao Zedong and communists defeat Chinese Nationalists
183. CE 1950-1953- Korean War
184. CE 1954-Ho Chi Minh’s forces defeated the French
185. CE 1954-1972- US involvement in Vietnam War
186. CE 1956- China's Great Leap Forward
187. CE 1957- Sputnik is launched
188. CE 1960- OPEC formed
189. CE 1959- Castro takes over Cuba and allies with Soviet Union
190. CE 1961- Berlin Wall constructed
191. CE 1962- Nelson Mandela sent to jail
192. CE 1962- Cuban Missile Crisis; Kennedy is President
193. CE 1964- PLO established
194. CE 1966- China's Cultural Revolution
195. CE 1967- Six Day War
196. CE 1969-1981- Era of Détente
197. CE 1970’s-Green Revolution in India increases crop yields
198. CE 1979- Iranian Revolution
199. CE 1979-1989- Soviets Invade Afghanistan
200. CE 1980- Iraq invades Iran
201. CE 1981- Deng Xiaoping leads in China
202. CE 1985-1991- Gorbachev leads in USSR
203. CE 1989- Tiananmen Square Massacre
204. CE 1989- Berlin Wall falls
205. CE 1989- Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia
206. CE 1991- Soviet Union is disbanded and ends the Cold War
207. CE 1991- Iraq invades Kuwait starting the Persian Gulf War
208. CE 1993- European Union Established
209. CE 1994- Nelson Mandela, first black president of South Africa
210. CE 2001-al Qaeda terrorists attack the US
211. CE 2001 to Present-Age of terrorism