Periods
Crusades 1095-1291Magna Carta 1215Song Dynasty 960-1279Marco Polo in China
1275-1292Yuan Dynasty : Mongols in China 1279-1368Black Death in China 1330s-1350sMing Dynasty 1368-1644Zheng He 1405-1433Portugueses trade w/ Japan 1543Tokugawa Shogunate 1603-1868Christianity banned 1614Restricts trade 1638Qing Dynasty 1644-19111st Opium War 1839-1842Perry visits Japan 1853Taiping Rebellion 1850-18642nd Opium War 1856-1860Towsend Treaty 1858Meiji Restoration 1868-19121st Sino-Japanese War 1894-1895Boxer Rebellion 1900Open Door Policy 1899May 4th Movement 1919Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905Japan colonizes Korea 1910-1945Chinese Civil War 1927-1949Mao's Long March 19342nd Sino-Japanese War 1937-1945Allied occupation of Japan 1945-1952Mao rules communist China 1949-1976Nationalists evacuate to Taiwan 1949Korean War 1950-1953Great Leap Forward 1956-1958Korean truce, division remains 1953-presentCultural Revolution 1966-1976Deng Xiaoping rules 1978-1989Tiananmen Massacre 1989Golden Horde (Mongols in Russia) 1242-1502Black Death 1347-1353Byzantine Empire 330-1453Moors Spain (Muslim) 711-1492Hundred Years War 1337-1453Fall of Byzantines 1453Reconquista 1492Printing Press 1455Russia free from Mongols 1462Age of Exploration 1450-1600High Renaissance 1400-1525Scientific Revolution 1500-1700Council of Trent 1545-1563Spanish Armada 1588Age of Reformation 1517-164830 Years War 1618-1648Rise of serfdom Russia 1600Enlightenment 1685-1815Glorious Revolution 16897 Years War 1756-1763Adam Smith wealth of nations 1775French Revolution 1789-1794Napoleon 1799-1815Napoleon invades Russia 18121st Industrial Revolution (eng) 1760-1840Congress of Vienna 1815Communist Manifesto 1848Russia ends serfdom 1861Germany + Italian unification 1871Victorian England 1837-19012nd Industrial Revolution 1870-1914WWI 1914-1918Russian Revolution 1917-1923Armenian genocide 1915-1917Mussolini rules Italy 1922-1943Hitler rules Germany 1933-1945WWII 1939-1945Cold War 1946-1991Spanish Civil War 1936-1939USSR 1922-1991Holodomor 1932-1933Stalin's great purge 1936NATO formed 1949Warsaw Pact 1955Hungary uprising 1956Berlin Wall 1961-1989Britain controls Egypt 1882-1956Balfour Declaration 1917Arab Mandates 1919-1946Ataturk (1st Turkish President) 1923-1938Oil found in Saudi Arabia 1936Israel created 1948Nasser nationalizes Suez Canal 19566 Day War 1967Iranian Revolution 1979Egypt-Israel peace 1979Saddam Hussein rules IraqUSSR invades Afghanistan 1979Anwar Sadat assassinated 1981US war in Afghanistan 2001-2021US invades Iraq 2003-2011Osama bin Laden killed 2011Delhi Sultanate (N. India) 1206-1526Portugal seize Straits of Malacca 1641Mughal Empire 1526-1857Battle of Plassey 1757England defeats France using sepoys 1763East India Company rules India 1757-1857Sepoy Rebellion 1857France colonizes Vietnam 1862-1991Indian Nation Congress 1885Abbasid Caliphate 750-1258Ilkhanate (Mongols in Persia) 1258-1335Ottoman Empire 1299-1923Black Death in ME 1347-1349Suleiman the Magnificient 1520-1566Safavid Empire 1501-1736Battle of Chaldiran 1514Shah Abbas 1588-1629Britain defeats Napoleon in Egypt 1801Muhammed Ali gov't of Egypt 1805-1849Tanzimat Reforms 1839-1876Suez Canal opens 1869Gandhi Salt March 1930Indian independence + Pakistan created 1947Japan rule Vietnam 1940-1945French defeat at Dienbienphu 1954Bandong Conference 1955Vietnam War 1956-1975Cambodian Genocide 1975-1979Ghana Kingdom 830-1235Mali Kingdom 1235-1600Swahili city states peak 11th-16thMansa Musa Hajj 1324Ibn Battuta travels 1325-1354Songhai Kingdom 1460-1591King Affonso of Kongo letter to King John of Portugal 1526Assante Tribe 1670-1873British colonized Sierra Loene 1787-1961Berlin Conference 1885Europe colonize + divide Africa 1885-1914Meneliks defeats Italians 1895Boer War 1899-1902Ethiopia asks League of Nations for help 1935Apartheid in S. Africa 1948-1990Decolonization Era 1945-1989Algerian War 1954-1962Ghana Independence 1957Kwame Nkrumah first president of Ghana 1957-1966Mandela first black president of S. Africa 1994Aztecs 1300-1521Incas 1438-1533Columbus 1492Slave trade 1500-1867Jamestown founded 1607Plymouth Rock 1620French + Indian War 1753-1763American Revolution 1775-1783Haitain Revolution 1791-1804Louisiana Purchase 1803Latin American independence movements 1811-1830American Civil War 1861-1865Emancipation Proclamation 1863US industrial revolution 1865-1914Panama canal opens 1914Mexican Revolution 1910-1917Stockmarket Crash 1929Great Depression 1929-1939Pearl Harbor 1941WWII 1941-1945Green Revolution begins in Mexico 1943Green Revolution continues 1960sContainment 1947-1961Cuban Revolution 1959Mutually Assured Destruction 1961-1980OPEC embargo 19739/11 2001
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