Dates Flashcards
(61 cards)
1
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Agricultural Revolution
A
8000 BC
2
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Roman Republic begins
A
500 BC
3
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Edict of Milan
A
313 CE
4
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Yellow Turban Rebellion
A
184 CE
5
Q
Great Schism
A
1054
6
Q
Battle of Tours (Charles Martel led the Frankish Army to drive out the Ummayads and won; paved the way for the Carolingian Empire)
A
732
7
Q
First Crusade
A
1095
8
Q
Mongols
A
1206
9
Q
Arrival of Islam
A
613
10
Q
Mohammed’s Hegira
A
630
11
Q
Islam arrives in West Africa
A
700
12
Q
Sunni-Shia Split
A
656
13
Q
End of the Crusades
A
1272
14
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Battle of Manzikert (Byzantine lost to the Seljuk Turks)
A
1071
15
Q
Zheng He
A
1400
16
Q
Ottomans conquer Constantinople
A
1453
17
Q
Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope
A
1488
18
Q
Reconquista/Colombus
A
1492
19
Q
95 Theses
A
1517
20
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Cortes conquers the Aztecs
A
1521
21
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Pizarro conquers the Incas
A
1533
22
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30 Years War
A
1618-1648
23
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Tokugawa Shogunate
A
1600-1868
24
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Berlin Conference
A
1884-1885
25
End of the 7 Years War (French and Indian War)
1760
26
American Revolution begins
1776
27
French Revolution begins
1789
28
Haitian Independence
1804
29
Congress of Vienna (decided France's fate after Napoleon)
1815
30
Latin American Revolutions
1820s
31
1st Opium War
1839
32
Communist Manifesto
1848
33
Matthew Perry opens up Japan
1853
34
Sepoy Rebellion
1857
35
unification of Italy/serfdom ends in Russia/beginning of US civil war
1861
36
German Unification
1871
37
Catholic Counter Reformation
1545
38
Treaty of Tordesillas
1494
39
Factory Act in Great Britain
1833
40
British Reform Bill (expanded male suffrage)
1832
41
Napoleon crowned emperor
1804
42
Taiping Rebellion
1850-1864
43
Suez Canal finished
1869
44
Battle of Adowa
1896
45
Battle of Omdurman
1898
46
Mukden Incedent
1931
47
Treaty of Versailles
1920
48
Stock Market Crash in US
1929
49
South Africa gains independence from Britain
1910
50
Apartheid is established
1948
51
Apartheid ends
1992
52
Iranian Revolution
1979
53
Year of Africa
1960
54
Yalta and Potsdam conferences
1945
55
India gains independence
1947
56
Great Leap Forward
1958
57
Lenin dies
1924
58
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
1912
59
US gets involved in WW1
1917
60
Berlin wall falls
1989
61
Fall of the USSR
1991
