AP World Timeline

Events

Africa

1400 BCE

Americas

1400 BCE

China

1400 BCE

Europe

1400 BCE

Middle East

1400 BCE

Birth of Jesus

4 BC

Fall of Rome

476

Rome moves capital

476

Start of Buddhism

500

Start of Islam

610 ad

Vikings

700 - 1100

Great schism

1054

Crusades

1095 - 1291

Ghengis Khan

1162 - 1227

Marco polo

1254 - 1324

Pax mongolica

1275 - 1325

Ottoman dynasty

1299 - 1923

Ibn battuta

1304 - 1369

Mansa musa rules

1312 ad - 1332 ad

Bubonic plague

1347 - 1351

Ming dynasty

1368 - 1644

Zheng he

1371 - 1433

European Exploration

1400 - 1790

Fall of Constantinople

1453

Ottomans capture Constantinople

1453

Nicolaus Copernicus

1473 - 1543

Spanish Inquisition

1478 - 1834

Ferdinand Magellan

1480 - 1521

King Henry the fifth

Approx. 1491 - 1547

Columbian exchange

1492

Columbus

1492 - 1504

Columbus/Reconquista of Spain

1492

Días rounded cape of good hope

1492

Treaty of Tordesillas

1494

Height of Aztec Empire

1500 - 1519

Protest reformation

1500

Scientific Revolution

1500 - 1700

Triangle Slave Trade

1500 - 1800

Safavid dynasty

1501 - 1736

1st African slaves to Americas

1502

Martin Luther/95 Theses

1517

Protestant Reformation

1517 - 1648

Cortes conquered the Aztecs

1519

Fall of Aztecs

1520

Mughal Dynasty

1526 - 1857

Pizarro toppled the inca

1532

Council of Trent

1545 - Approx. 1563

Discovery of silver at Potosí

1545

Scientific revolution

1550 - 1750

Galileo

1564 - 1642

Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British

1588

Tokugawa Shogunate

1600 - 1868

Foundation of Jamestown

1607

30 years war

1618 - 1648

John Locke

1632 - 1704

End of Ming/beginning of the Qing Dynasty

1644

Peace of Westphalia

1648

Treaty of Versailles

1648

Enlightenment

1650 - 1800

Cape Town colony founded (Dutch)

1653

Glorious Revolution

1688 - 1689

Enlightenment

1700 - 1800

Adam smith

1723 - 1790

James cook

1728 - 1779

Industrial revolution

1750

Seven years war

1756 - 1763

American revolution

1775 - 1783

Simon Bolivar

1783 - 1830

Establishment of 1st European colony in Australia

1788

French Revolution

1789 - 1799

Latin American revolutions

1790 - 1820

Napoleonic wars

1803 - 1815

Napoleonic wars

1803 - 1815

Ending the slave trade

1807 - 1811

Opium Wars

1839 - 1842

Manifest destiny

1845 - 1900

Nationalism

1848 - 1900

Sepoy Rebellion

1857 - 1858

British control India

1858 - 1947

Zionism

1860 - 1890

US Civil War

1861 - 1865

Meiji Restoration

1868 - 1912

Imperialism

1870

Berlin conference

1884 - 1885

Spheres of Influence

1900

World war 1

1914 - 1918

Bolshevik Revolution

1917

Great Depression

1929 - 1940

Stock market crash

1929

World war 2

1939 - 1945

Cold war

1945 - 1989

Decolonization

1947 - 1968

Israeli independence

1947

Partition of India

1947

China communist revolution

1949

Communism

1949

Terrorism 9/11

2001