The Essential Anchor Dates

The Essential Anchor Dates

WHAP/Napp Name: ______

8000 B.C.E. – The Neolithic Revolution

3500 B.C.E. – Sumerian Civilization Develops

3100 B.C.E. – Ancient Egypt Was United

1750 – 1027 B.C.E. – The Shang Dynasty

1500 B.C.E. – The Aryans Entered the Indian Subcontinent

1200 B.C.E. – 400 B.C.E. – The Olmecs

1027 B.C.E. – 221 B.C.E. – The Zhou Dynasty

500s B.C.E. – The Axial Age [Confucianism, Daoism, Buddhism, Socrates]

509 B.C.E. – 31 B.C.E. – The Roman Republic

323 B.C.E. – The Death of Alexander

269 B.C.E. – 232 B.C.E. – The Reign of Asoka

221 B.C.E. – 206 B.C.E. – The Qin Dynasty

206 B.C.E. – 220 C.E. – The Han Dynasty

30 B.C.E. – 476 C.E. – The Roman Empire

300s – 900s C.E. – The Mayas

320 C.E. – 550 C.E. – The Guptas

400s – 1100s – The West African Kingdom of Ghana

500 – 1500 – The European Middle Ages

589 – 618 – Sui Dynasty

622 C.E. – The Hegira [Muhammad/Islam]

661 – 750 – The Umayyad Dynasty

618 – 907 – The T’ang Dynasty

750 – 1258 – The Abbasid Dynasty

794 – 1185 – The Heian Period in Japan

960 – 1279 – The Song Dynasty

1095 – 1291 – The Crusades

1185 – 1868 – The Feudal Period in Japan

1200s – 1300s – The Mongol Empire

1250 – 1460 – The West African Kingdom of Mali

1301 – 1922 – The Ottoman Empire

1347 – Bubonic Plague Entered Western Europe

1350 – Renaissance Began in Italian Peninsula

1368 – 1644 – Ming Dynasty

1405 – 1433 – Zheng He’s Voyages

1453 – Fall of Constantinople

1492 – Voyages of Columbus

1500s – Scientific Revolution in Western Europe

1500s – 1800s – Conquest and Colonization of the Americas

1500s – 1800s – The Transatlantic Slave Trade

1517 – Martin Luther Posted the Ninety-Five Theses

1520 – Babur Invaded the Indian Subcontinent and Founded the Mughal Empire

1556 – 1605 – Reign of Akbar the Great of the Mughal Empire

1603 – 1868 – The Tokugawa Shogunate

1644 – 1911 – The Qing Dynasty

1750 – The Start of the Industrial Revolution in England

1700s – The European Age of Enlightenment

1776 – The Declaration of Independence

1789 – The French Revolution Began

Early 1800s – Independence Movements in Latin America

1814 – 1815 – The Congress of Vienna

1839 – The Opium War Began

1848 – The Communist Manifesto

1853 – 1856 – The Crimean War

1853 – Commodore Perry Arrived in Japan

1861 – Alexander II Freed the Serfs in Russia

1861 – U.S. Civil War Began

1857 – The Sepoy Mutiny Began

1868 – The Meiji Restoration

1869 – The Opening of the Suez Canal

1870 – The Unification of Italy

1871 – The Unification of Germany

1884 – 1885 – The Berlin Conference

1911 – Chinese Republic Established

1914 – 1918 – World War I

1917 – Bolshevik Revolution

1923 – 1936 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Led Turkey

1929 – Stalin Gained Control of the Soviet Union

1930 – Gandhi’s Salt March

1937 – Rape of Nanjing

1939 – Hitler Invaded Poland

1939 – 1945 – World War II

1947 – India Gained Independence

1948 – Apartheid Established

1949 – Communist Victory in China

1949 – Founding of NATO

1955 – Founding of Warsaw Pact

1958 – Great Leap Forward

1959 – Fidel Castro Came to Power in Cuba

1959 – 1975 – Vietnam War

1960 – Year of Africa

1960 – Founding of OPEC

1966 – Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

1972 – SALT I Treaty Ratified by U.S. Senate

1976 – Death of Mao

1978 – Deng Xiaoping Came to Power

1979 – Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

1985 – 1991 – Soviet Leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev

1989 – Tiananmen Square Protests

1991 – Collapse of Soviet Union

1993 – Treaty of Maastricht: Formation of European Union

1994 – Nelson Mandela Elected President of South Africa

2001 – U.S. Invasion of Afghanistan