Period 3: Regional and Interregional interactions, c. 600-1450 TIMELINE

Events

Reign of Justinian

527 - 565

Life of Mohammad

570 - 632

Sui Dynasty in China

589 - 618

Tang Dynasty in China

618 - 907

Muhammad’s hajj

632

Umayyad Dynasty

661 - 750

Silla Dynasty in Korea

669 - 935

Kingdom of Srivijaya

670 - 1025

Nara Period in Japan

710 - 794

Conquest of Sind by Umayyad forces

711

Iconoclastic controversy

726 - 843

Battle of Tours

732

Abbasid Dynasty

750 - 1258

Reign on Charlemagne

768 - 814

Missions of St. Cyril and St. Methodius to the Slavs

801 - 900

Chola Dynasty

850 - 1267

Kingdom of Angkor

889 - 1431

Song Dynasty in China

960 - 1279

Conversion of Prince Vladimir of Kiev to Christianity

989

Beginning of population growth in the Pacific Islands

1001 - 1100

First issuance of government sponsored paper money in China

1024

Seljuk control over the Abbasid Dynasty

1050

Schism between Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches

1054

Norman invasion of England

1066

Battle of Manzikert

1071

First Crusade

1096 - 1099

Beginning of the two-way voyages between Hawaii and Tahiti and the Marquesas

1101 - 1200

Kingdom of Ghana

1101 - 1300

Swahili cities

1101 - 1500

Collapse of the Toltec empire

1175

Kamakura Period in Japan

1185 - 1333

Christian kingdom of Axum

1201 - 1600

Kingdom of Zimbabwe

1201 - 1500

Fourth Crusade

1202 - 1204

Reign of Chinngis Khan

1206 - 1227

Sultanate of Delhi

1206 - 1526

Mongol conquest of northern China

1211 - 1234

Mongol conquest of Persia

1219 - 1221

Life of St. Thomas Aquinas

1225 - 1274

Mongol conquest of Russia

1237 - 1241

Inca settlement near Cuzco

1250

Mongol capture of Baghdad

1258

Mongol conquest of southern China

1264 - 1279

Reign of Kublai Khan

1264 - 1294

Yuan Dynasty

1264 - 1294

Marco Polo’s trip to China

1271 - 1295

Mali Empire

1301 - 1500

Life of Ibn Batuta

1304 - 1369

Mana Musa’s pilgrimage to Mecca

1324 - 1325

Kingdom of Vijayanagar

1336 - 1565

Foundation of Tenochtitlan by the Mexica

1345

First outbreak of bubonic plague in China

1347

Ming dynasty

1368 - 1644

Emergence of the five Iroquois nations

1400

Kingdom of Kongo

1401 - 1700

Zheng He's expeditions in the Indian Ocean

1405 - 1433

Reign of the Aztec Ruler Motecuzina 1

1440 - 1469

Ottoman capture of Constantinople

1453