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200
Spread of Buddhism takes hold.
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330
Founding of Constatinople
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Period: 400 to
AP World History TIMELINE
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476
End of Roman Empire
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570
Muhammad is born DIES in 632
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Apr 8, 650
Quran completed
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Apr 8, 656
Shia Islam begins to surface
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Apr 8, 711
Muslim conquest of Spain occurs
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Apr 8, 726
Iconoclastic controversy UNTIL 843
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Apr 8, 751
Battle of Talas River
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Apr 8, 1000
Gunpowder invented in China
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Apr 8, 1000
Bantu migration stops
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Apr 8, 1000
Swahili civilization grows UNTIL 1500
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Apr 8, 1000
Viking colony made in Newfoundland
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Apr 8, 1095
Crusades begin !
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Apr 8, 1099
Crusaders seize Jerusalem
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Apr 8, 1142
Iroquois confederation established
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Apr 8, 1250
Kingdom of Zimbabwe UNTIL 1350
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Apr 8, 1258
Mongols conquer Baghdad
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Apr 8, 1266
Marco Polo chills out in China
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Apr 8, 1324
Mansa Musa makes pilgrimage to Mecca UNTIL 1325
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Apr 8, 1346
Black Death in Europe UNTIL 1350
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Apr 8, 1400
Aztec Empire begins
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Apr 8, 1433
Chinese withdraws its Navy from the Indian Ocean
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Apr 8, 1453
Ottoman conquest of Constantinople
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Apr 8, 1453
Turks Capture Constatinople
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Apr 8, 1467
Civil war in Japan until 1568
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Apr 8, 1492
Columbus's makes the his first visit to Americas
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Apr 8, 1498
Vasco da Gama makes it to India
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Apr 8, 1501
Safavid Empire in Persia begins in 1501 - 1722
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Apr 8, 1517
Protestant Reformation begins
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Apr 8, 1520
Spanish conquor the Aztecs and Incans UNTIL 1530s
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Apr 8, 1526
Mughal Empire grows UNTIL 1707
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Apr 8, 1529
Ottoman siege of Vienna
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Apr 8, 1530
Portuguese started plantations Brazil 1530s
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Apr 8, 1543
Heliocentric view of the universe was published by Copernicus
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Apr 8, 1550
Start of : Russian expansion into Siberia
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British and Dutch East India companies move into Asian trade networks
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Tokugawa shogunate established in Japan
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Jamestown, Virginia, in North America
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French colony in Quebec established
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Thirty Years' War UNTIL 1648
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Taj Mahal constructed UNTIL 1648
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Issac Newton is born
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Establishment of Dutch settlement in South Africa
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Peter the Great Westernizes of Russia UNTIL 1725
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European Enlightenment : Throughout 1700s
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Pinnacle of plantation/slave system
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Mughal empire begins to disolve
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Napoleon's invasion of Egypt
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Safavid Empire comes to an end
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Start of : American Revolution
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Start of: British Industrial Revolution
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Antislavery moment begins
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End of : American Revolution
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US Constitution Convention
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Start of French Revolution
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Start of : Haitian Revolution
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Chinese reject British offer to trade
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Start of : Napolean in FRANCE
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End of French Revolution
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Louisiana Purchase
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End of : Haitian Revolution
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End of : Napoleon's rule of France and Europe
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French invasion of Algeria
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Start of : First Opium War
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End of : First Opium War
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Mexican-American War
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Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto is published
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Women's Rights Convention, Senca Falls, New York, USA
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End of : Mexican-American War
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Cali' gold rush
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Railroads begin to spread in Cuba, Chile, & Brazil
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Peak in African Slave trade
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Start of : Taiping Uprising in China
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Commodore Perry arrives in Japan!
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Start of :US Civil War
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Emancipation of serfs in Russia
Emancipation -
End of : Taiping Uprising in China
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End of : American Civil war
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Canada, eh?
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Massacre at Wounded Knee
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Starts : Boer War in South Africa
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Colonial conquest of Africa complete
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End of : Boer War in South Africa
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Maji Maji rebellion in German East Africa 1904-1905
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Start of: World War I
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Russian Revolution
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End of : World War I
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Treaty of Versailles, Ends World War I
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May Fourth Movement in China
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Great Depression - stock market crash
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Start of : Stalin in control of USSR
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Hitlers establishes power in Germany
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Japan invades China - start of WWII in Asia
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Start of : World War II
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Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima + Nagasaki
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End of: World War II
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Founding of United Nations
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World Bank / International Monetary Fund established
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Cold War begins
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India and Pakistand become Independent
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Communist take control of Chinese government
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Berlin Blockade & the Berlin Air Drop
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Start of: Korean War
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End of : Korean War
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End of : Stalin's power in USSR
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Cuban Revolution
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1960s Civil Rights and anti-Vietnam protests in USA
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OPEC established
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Cuban Missle Crisis
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Vietnam War
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Six-Day War between Arabs and Israel
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Student Protests in France
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Prague Spring/ Soviet Revolution
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End of : Vietnam War
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OPEC oil embargo
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Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe
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Cold War ends
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1991 Collapse of the Soviet Union
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European Union Established
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World population reaches 6 BILLION
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9/11
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Euro is introduced
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Iraq War Begins
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Panama Canal finished in 1914 (started in 1904)
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Song dynasty China UNTIL 1279
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Vietnam establishes independence from China
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First book printed in China
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Buddhism was suppressed in China
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Charemagne crowned as "Roman emperor:
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Toltec Civilization begins to thrive UNTIL 1150
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Collapse of Maya civilization
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Yellow Turban Rebellion
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Christianity as official state religion of the Roman Empire
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Sui Dynasty; reunification of China UNTIL 618
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Vladimir, prince of Kiev is converted to Christianity