AP World History Timeline
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- 1066 AD
- William the Conqueror begins his reign in England
- 1921 AD
- Albert Einstein receives the Nobel Prize for physics
- 2380 BCE
- Urukagina, author of one of the first codes of laws, reigns in Lagash
- 622 AD
- Muhammad leads the Hegira
- 1603 AD
- The reunification of Japan under Tokugawa Ieyasu
- 1448 AD
- Moctezuma I becomes the fifth Aztec emperor
- 1953 AD
- Nikita Kruschev comes to power in the Soviet Union
- 1497 AD
- John Cabot becomes the first explorer to "discover" North America
- 1946 AD
- Jawarhal Nehru is elected the first president of post-colonial India
- 1405 AD
- First voyage of Chinese explorer Zheng He
- 1689 AD
- John Locke publishes the Two Treatises of Government
- 1782 AD
- Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of Women's Rights
- 1914 AD
- Francis Ferdinand is assassinated, starting World War I
- 1534 AD
- Cartier lands in Canada
- 335 BCE
- Aristotle builds his school of philosophy in Athens
- 27 BCE
- Octavian becomes the first Roman emperor
- 604 AD
- Prince Shotoku publishes the Seventeen Article Constitution in Japan
- 1270 AD
- Marco Polo departs on his voyage to China
- 1616 AD
- Galileo begins having difficulties with the church
- 273 BCE
- Reign of Ashoka begins in India
- 550 BCE
- Cyrus overcomes the Medians in the Persians' first victory
- 1963 AD
- Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers the "I Have a Dream" speech during the march to Washington
- 1503 AD
- Leonardo da Vinci is commissioned to paint the Mona Lisa
- 1930 AD
- Gandhi leads the Salt March in India
- 49 BCE
- Julius Caesar becomes sole leader of Rome and dissolves the Roman Republic
- 63 BCE
- Cicero is elected Consul
- 1652 AD
- Jan van Riebeck and other Dutch settlers found Capetown
- 570 AD
- Justinian becomes the Byzantine Emperor
- 1861 AD
- Victor Emmanuel II becomes the first king of a united Italy
- 360 BCE
- Plato publishes The Republic
- 1187 AD
- Saladin takes back Jerusalem for the Muslims during the Crusades
- 1682 AD
- Peter the Great becomes Czar of Russia
- 1959 AD
- Fidel Castro becomes leader of Cuba
- 1420 AD
- Portuguese explorers begin looking around
- 1932 AD
- Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
- 1819 AD
- Simon Bolivar founds Gran Colombia after liberating South America from Spain
- 1648 AD
- Taj Mahal is completed in India under the direction of Shah Jahan
- 800 AD
- Charlemagne is crowned the first Holy Roman Emperor
- 1994 AD
- Former prisoner Nelson Mandela is elected president of South Africa
- 1871 AD
- Otto van Bismarck oversees the reunification of Germany
- 1762 AD
- Catherine the Great becomes ruler of Russia
- 1793 AD
- Marie Antoinette is guillotined during the French Revolution
- 1324 AD
- Mansa Musa sets out of his famous pilgrimage to Mecca
- 554 BCE
- Confucius is born
- 1812 AD
- Shaka Zulu creates the Zulu Empire
- 434 BCE
- Peloponnesian War begins with Pericles as a leading Athenian statesman
- 1949 AD
- Mao Tse-tung becomes the chairman of the People's Republic of China
- 1235 BCE
- Sundiata Kieta becomes the King of Mali
- 1509 AD
- Henry VIII becomes King of England
- 1542 AD
- Akbar the Great, who would become an Indian ruler, was born
- 1764 AD
- Hargreaves invents the spinning jenny and kicks off the Industrial Revolution
- 550 BCE
- Lao-Tze, founder of Taoism, is born
- 329 BCE
- Alexander the Great defeats the Achaemenid Persian Empire
- 1990 AD
- Mikhail Gorbachev wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in ending the Cold War
- 1637 AD
- Rene Descartes, the father of modern philosophy, publishes his first works
- 1946 AD
- Ho Chi Minh becomes prime minister/president of North Vietnam
- 1760 BCE
- Hammurabi's code is published
- 1520 AD
- Suleyman the Magnificent becomes Sultan
- 320 BCE
- Chandragupta found the Maurya Empire
- 496 AD
- Clovis, King of the Franks, converts to Christianity
- 1431 AD
- Joan of Arc is burned at the stake at age 19
- 210 BCE
- Shi Huangdi, 1st emperor of China, founds the Qin dynasty
- 1922 AD
- Joseph Stalin becomes the leader of the USSR after Lenin's death
- 1439 AD
- Johann Gutenberg invents the printing press
- 1536 AD
- John Calvin publishes the Institutes of Christian Religion
- 563 BCE
- Siddhartha (Buddha) is born
- 272 AD
- Constantine, who would go on to be Roman emperor
- 1558 AD
- Queen Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England
- 594 BCE
- Solon is entrusted with writing a new Athenian constitution
- 36 AD
- Paul's conversion to Christianity
- 1907 AD
- Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, is born
- 1653 AD
- Oliver Cromwell becomes the leader of England after the English Civil War
- 1889 AD
- Cecil Rhodes gets a license from the British government to rule southern Africa
- 1438 AD
- Pachacuti, the founder of the Incan Empire, is born
- 732 AD
- Charles Martel leads the Franks to defeat the Moors at the Battle of Tours
- 1917 AD
- V.I. Lenin seizes control of Russia during the Russian Revolution
- 1492 AD
- Christopher Columbus "discovers" the "new world"
- 1519 AD
- Martin Luther posts the 95 Theses
- 206 BCE-195 BCE
- Liu Bang, the first emperor of the Han dynasty, reigns
- 5 BCE
- Jesus is born
- 1876 AD
- Leo Tolstoy writes Anna Karenina
- 1687 AD
- Newton publishes the Principia
- 17th century BCE
- Zarathustra, the founder of Zoroastrianism, lives
- 1848 AD
- Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto
- 1206 AD
- At the age of 42, Temujin takes the title Genghis Khan, which means "Universal Ruler"
- 1842 AD
- King Leopold I tries and fails to pass a child labor law in Belgium
- 1368 AD
- Hongwu founds the Ming Dynasty
- 1095 AD
- Pope Urban II calls for crusades to take back the holy land
- 1877 AD
- Thomas Edison invents the phonograph
- 1804 AD
- Napoleon crowns himself emperor of France
- 1812 BCE
- Abraham, the father of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, is born
- 1654 AD
- Louis XIV is crowned King of France
- 900-800 BCE
- Homer writes the Iliad and the Odyssey
- 1200 BCE
- Vyasa writes the Hindu Vedas
- 1859 AD
- Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species