AP World History Modern Timeline
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Updated: 19 May 2020
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Taj Mahal BuiltDutch Boers Colonize South AfricaNewton's Principia PublishedGlorious Revolution in EnglandEarly Steam Engine InventedBattle of Plassey Begins English Colonization in IndiaWealth of Nations by Adam Smith PublishedVindication of the Rights of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft PublishedEli Whitney Invents the Cotton GinCongress of ViennaCommunist Manifesto PublishedSeneca Falls ConventionCommodore Perry Opens JapanSepoy Rebellion in IndiaSuez Canal Built by Britain in EgyptRussian Serfs EmancipatedEmancipation Proclamation in U.S.Meiji Restoration in JapanGermany Unified under Otto von BismarckBerlin Conference (Beginning of European "Scramble for Africa")Battle of Adowa (Ethiopians Defeat Italians)Spanish-American War (U.S. Acquires Guam, Philippines, Cuba, and Puerto Rico)Boer WarMuslim League FoundedRussian RevolutionZimmerman TelegramLeague of Nations FoundedTurkey FoundedJapanese Invasion of ManchuriaNew Deal by FDR Introduced in U.S.Pearl Harbor AttackHiroshima and Nagasaku BombingsUnited Nations CreatedPhilippinesPartition of India; Independence for India and PakistamJapanese Empire EndsTruman DoctrineIsrael FoundedNATO EstablishedWarsaw PactBandung ConferencePolio Vaccine Approved for UseKhrushchev gains power in USSR; begins de-StalinizationYear of AfricaDwight D. Eisenhower Uses Term "Military- Industrial Complex"Cuban Missile CrisisIranian RevolutionTiananmen Square ProtestsFall of the Berlin WallFall of USSREnd of Apartheid in South AfricaRwandan Genocide9/11 Terrorist AttacksArab SpringMagna Carta signedPeak of Mongol rule and Pax Mongolica on the Silk RoadsMansa Musa's pilgrimageTenochitlan foundedBlack Death breaks out in ChinaSwahili city-states flourishPrinting press inventedCarael inventedStart of Atlantic Slave TradeOttoman Conquest of ConstantinopleReconquista of SpainColumbus sails to the “New World”/Spain begins to colonize the Americas/Columbian Exchange beginsPortugal Starts Colonizing the AmericaVasco de Gama reaches IndiaFirst enslaved people come to AmericasProtestnat Reformation begins Martin Luther's 95 ThesesFrance Begins to Colonize the AmericasCopernicus shares ideas about a Heliocentric UniverseDiscovery of Silver at Potosi MineRussian Empire BeginsFounding of Manila and Beginning of Global TradeFluyt inventedBritish East India Company FoundedDutch East India Company FoundedBritain Begins Colonizing the Americas with JamestownPeriods
Song DynastyCrusadesDelhi SultanateGenghis Khan ruleMongols sack Baghdad (end of Abbasid Caliphate)Failed Mongol invasion of JapanMarco Polo's travelsYuan Dynasty in China (Mongol Rule)Ottoman EmpireItalian RenaissanceIbn Battuta's travelsRed Turban Rebellion in ChinaMing DynastyZheng He's voyagesAztec EmpireInca EmpirePeriod 2: Units 3 & 4Russia Overthrows Mongol Rule in MoscowSonghai EmpireSikhism BeginsSafavid EmpireNzinga Mbemba (Afonso 1) Rules the Kongo EmpireMagellan Sails Around the World(dies in Philippines)Mughal EmpireScientific RevolutionAkbar the Great Rules the Mughal EmpireTokugawa ShogunateTokugawa Iemitsu Rules Japan and Establishes Japanese IsolationismLouis XIV Rules France; absolute monarchy in FranceQing (Manchu) EmpirePeter the Great Rules and Westernizes RussiaThe EnlightenmentPeriod 3: Units 5 & 67 Years' WarFirst Industrial RevolutionAmerican RevolutionFrench RevolutionHaitian RevolutionNapoleonic Reign in FranceLatin American RevolutionsOpium WarsTanzimat Reforms in the Ottoman EmpireIrish Potato FamineTaiping RebellionKing Leopold Rules the Congo; Commits Human Rights Crimes to get RubberSecond Industrial RevolutionEuopean Spheres of Influence in ChinaUnited Fruit Company EstablishedBoxer RebellionPeriod 4: Units 7, 8 & 9Russo-Japanese WarMexican RevolutionWorld War 1Armenian GenocideChinese Civil WarGreat DepressionGreat Purge in USSRWorld War 2The HolocaustStalin in Power in USSRGreen RevolutionChinese Communist RevolutionCold WarKorean WarCuban RevolutionVietnam WarGreat Leap ForwardCultural Revolution in ChinaPinochet in ChileDeng Xiaping Takes Power in China and Begins Economic ReformsPeriod 1: Units 1 &2Abbasid Caliphate
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