APWH “Must-Know” Dates Name ______Foundations Hour ____ May 27, 2009
1. ______Qin unified China
2. ______Alexander the Great
3. ______Roman capital moved to Constantinople
4. ______Greek Golden Age - philosophers, etc.
5. ______Beginnings of Christianity
6. ______Beginnings of Bronze Age - and early civilizations
7. ______end of Pax Romana
8. ______Fall of Rome
9. ______Iron Age
10. ______Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire
11. ______end of Han Dynasty
12. ______life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tzi (beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taosim)
13. ______Beginnings of agriculture
14. ______Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes
APWH “Must-Know” Dates Name ______600-1450 Hour ____ May 27, 2009
1.______Mongols sack Baghdad
2.______Bubonic plague in Europe
3.______1st Schism in Christian Church
4.______travels of Ibn Battuta
5.______Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France)
6.______end of Zheng He’s voyages
7.______Rise of Islam
8.______Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage
9.______Marco Polo’s travels
10.______Norman conquest of England
11.______Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks over Byzantium)
12.______Rise of Ottomans
13.______1st Crusade
APWH “Must-Know” Dates Name ______1450-1750 Hour ____ May 27, 2009
1. ______Martin Luther/95 theses
2. ______unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna
3. ______Battle of Sekigahara - unification of Japan - beginning of Tokugawa rule
4. ______Columbus / Reconquista of Spain
5. ______Cortez conquered the Aztecs
6. ______defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British
7. ______Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope
8. ______foundation of Jamestown
9. ______30 years war
10. ______Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights
11. ______Ottomans capture Constantinople
12. ______Pizarro toppled the Inca
13. ______1st Slaves to Americas
14. ______Battle of Lepanto (defeat of Ottoman Navy)
APWH “Must-Know” Dates Name ______1750-1914 Hour ____ May 27, 2009
1. ______1st Opium War in China
2. ______7 years war/French and Indian War
3. ______American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations
4. ______Berlin Conference - division of Africa
5. ______Boer War - British in control of South Africa
6. ______Chinese Revolution / End of Dynastic China
7. ______Commodore Perry opens Japan
8. ______Congress of Vienna
9. ______Emancipation Proclamation in US
10. ______end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification
11. ______European revolutions/Marx & Engles write Communist Manifesto
12. ______French Revolution begins
13. ______German unification
14. ______Haitian independence
15. ______Independence in Latin America
16. ______Mexican Revolution
17. ______Russo-Japanese war
18. ______Sepoy Mutiny
19. ______Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippine, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico
APWH “Must-Know” Dates Name ______1914-present Hour ____ May 27, 2009
1. ______1st Palestinian Intifada
2. ______6-day war/Chinese Cultural Revolution
3. ______9/11
4. ______birth of Israel
5. ______Chinese Communist Revolution
6. ______Cuban Revolution
7. ______Cuban missile crisis
8. ______de-Stalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal
9. ______end of WWII
10. ______fall of USSR/1st Gulf war
11. ______genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S. Africa
12. ______German blitzkrieg in Poland
13. ______independence & partition of India
14. ______Iranian Revolution
15. ______Italian invasion of Ethiopia
16. ______Japanese invasion of Manchuria
17. ______Korean War
18. ______Pearl Harbor
19. ______Russian Revolution
20. ______stock market crash
21. ______Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin Wall
22. ______Treaty of Versailles - end of WWI
23. ______Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu
24. ______WWI begins
25. ______Yom Kippur war
6 APWH “Must-Know” Dates
1750-1914 Foundations (8000 B.C.E. - 600 CE) Industrial Revolution 1756-1763 -7 years war/French and Indian War 8000 B.C.E. - Beginnings of agriculture 1776 - American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of 3000 B.C.E. - Beginnings of Bronze Age - early civ’s Nations 1300 B.C.E. - Iron Age 1789 - French Revolution 6th century B.C.E. - life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao Tsu 1804 - Haitian independence (beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taosim) 1815 - Congress of Vienna 5th C B.C.E. - Greek Golden Age - philosophers. 1820s- Independence in Latin America 323 B.C.E. - Alexander the Great 1839 - 1st opium war in China 221 B.C.E. - Qin unified China 1848 - European revolutions/Marx & Engles write 32 C.E. - Beginnings of Christianity Communist Manifesto 180 C.E. - end of Pax Romana 1853- Commodore Perry opens Japan 220 C.E. - end of Han Dynasty 1857- Sepoy Mutiny 333 - Roman capital moved to Constantinople 1861- end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification 4th C - Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes 1863 - Emancipation Proclamation in US 476 - Fall of Rome 1871- German unification 527 - Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire 1885 - Berlin Conference - division of Africa 1898 - Spanish-American War - US acquires 600-1450 Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico 622 - Founding of Islam 1899 - Boer War - British in control of South Africa 732 - Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France) 1905 - Russo-Japanese war 1054 - Great Schism in Christian Church (Roman 1910 -1920 - Mexican Revolution Catholic & Eastern Orthodox 1911- Chinese Revolution 1066 - Norman conquest of England 1071 - Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byz) 1914-present 1095 - 1st Crusade 1914-1918 - WWI 1258 - Mongols sack Baghdad 1917 - Russian Revolution 1271-1295 - Marco Polo travels 1919 - Treaty of Versailles - end of WWI 1324 - Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage 1929 - stock market crash 1325-1349 - travels of Ibn Battuta 1931 - Japanese invasion of Manchuria 1347-1348 - Bubonic plague in Europe 1935 - Italian invasion of Ethiopia 1433 - end of Zheng He’s voyages/Rise of Ottomans 1939 - German blitzkrieg in Poland 1941 - Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII 1450-1750 1945 - end of WWII 1453 - Ottomans capture Constantinople 1947 - independence & partition of India 1488 - Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope 1948 - birth of Israel 1492 - Columbus sailed the ocean blue/ Reconquista of 1949 - Chinese Communist Revolution Spain 1950-1953 - Korean War 1502 - 1st Slaves to Americas 1954 - Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu 1517 - Martin Luther/95 theses 1956 - de-Stalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal 1521- Cortez conquered the Aztecs 1959 - Cuban Revolution 1533- Pizarro toppled the Inca 1962 - Cuban missile crisis 1571 - Battle of Lepanto, (naval defeat of Ottomans) 1967 - 6-day war/Chinese Cultural Revolution 1588 - defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British 1973 - Yom Kippur war 1600 - Battle of Sekigahara - beginning of Tokugawa 1979 - Iranian Revolution 1607 - foundation of Jamestown 1987 - 1st Palestinian Intifada 1618-1648 - 30 years war 1989 - Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin Wall 1683- unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna 1991 - fall of USSR/1st Gulf war 1689 - Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights 1994 - genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S. Africa 2001 - 9/11 Attacks