AP World History Dates
Dates you should know for AP World History.
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- Rise of Islam
- 632
- Early Modern Period
- 1450 - 1750
- Norman Conquest of England
- 1066
- Mali Empire
- 13th - 15th Century
- Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes (use of camel spreads)
- 4th Century
- Alexander the Great
- 323 BCE
- Iron Age
- 1300 BCE
- Tokugawa Shogunate
- 1603 - 1867
- End of Zheng He's Voyages
- 1433
- African slaves to the Americas
- Early 1500s - Early 1800s
- Han Dynasty, also beginnings of Silk Roads and maritime trade around the South China Sea and Indian Ocean Basin
- 206 BCE - 220 CE
- Founding of Jamestown and Massachusetts Bay Colony
- 1607 - 1630
- Tsar Peter the Great
- 1682 - 1725
- Aztec Empire
- 14th - 16th Century
- Seven Years' War or French and Indian War
- 1756 - 1763
- Bubonic plague in Europe
- 1347 - 1348
- Post Classical Period
- 600-1450
- Foundations
- 8000 BCE - 600 CE
- Mongols sack Baghdad
- 1258
- Start of East India Company and Dutch VOC
- 1600 - 1602
- Kingdom of Israel
- 1020 BCE
- Safavid Empire
- 16th - 18th Century
- Travels of Ibn Battuta
- 1325 - 1349
- Defeat of te Spanish Armada by the British
- 1588
- Greek Golden Age - Philosophers
- 5th Century BCE
- Delhi Sultanate
- 1206 - 1526
- Renaissance
- 14th - 15th century
- Hundred Years' War
- 1337 - 1453
- Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into France)
- 732
- Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire
- 527-565 CE
- The Englightenment
- 18th Century
- Martin Luther's 95 Theses
- 1517
- Industrial Revolution
- 1750 - 1914
- Columbus sailed to San Salvador, and Reconquista of Spain
- 1492
- Yuan Dynasty
- 1279 - 1368
- Life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao-Tsu (beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism)
- 6th Century BCE
- Classical Maya
- 400 - 800 CE
- Spread of Buddhism and Hinduism to Southeast Asia
- 3rd Century BCE
- Song Dynasty
- 960 - 1279
- Spread of Christianity in the Mediterranean basin and Southwest Asia
- 2nd Century CE
- Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights
- 1689
- Marco Polo Travels
- 1271 - 1295
- Congress of Vienna
- 1815
- 1st Crusade
- 1095
- The Long 19th Century
- 1750 - 1914
- Qin Unification of China
- 221 BCE
- High point of African Slave Trade
- 18th Century
- Tang Dynasty (Sui Dynasty for 29 yrs before that)
- 618-907
- Council of Trent, Jesuits, Counter-Reformation
- 1545 - 1563
- Ming Dynasty
- 1368 - 1644
- Pax Romana
- 27 BCE - 180 CE
- Magellan's crew completes circumnavigation of the world
- 1522
- Ottomans capture Constantinople
- 1453
- Qing Dynasty (Kangxi 1661 - 1722)
- 1644 - 1911
- Mauryan Empire and Gupta Dynasty
- 3rd and 6th Centuries
- Bantu Migrations
- 500 BCE - 1000 CE
- Mughal Empire (Akbar 1556-1605)
- 1526 - 1858
- Christianity official religion of Roman Empire
- 380 CE
- European revolutions
- 1830 - 1848
- French Revolution
- 1789 - 1815
- Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage
- 1324
- Discovery of silver in Potosi, Bolivia
- 1545
- US Constitution Ratified
- 1789
- Beginnings of Christianity
- 32 CE
- Beginnings of Bronze Age
- 3000 BCE
- Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope
- 1488
- Haitian Revolution
- 1789 - 1804
- Great Schism in Christian Church
- 1054
- Roman capital moved to Constantinople
- 333 CE
- Height of Kingdom of Ghana
- 9th Century
- Scientific Revolution
- 16th - 17th Century
- Fall of western Roman Empire
- 476 CE
- Magna Carta
- 1215
- Declaration of Indepedence and Adam Smit Writes Wealth of Nations
- 1776
- Cortez conquered the Aztecs
- 1521
- John Locke's Two Treatises on Government
- 1688