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220 BCE
Great Wall of China was built/ Events in China Before 1912
The Great Wall of China is a series of fortifications made of stone, brick, tamped earth, wood, and other materials, generally built along an east-to-west line across the historical northern borders of China to protect the Chinese states and empires against the raids and invasions of the various nomadic groups of the Eurasian Steppe. -
118 BCE
Paper money was made/ Events Before 1912
The idea of using a durable light-weight substance as evidence of a promise to pay a bearer on demand originated in China during the Han Dynasty in 118 BC, and was made of leather. Bank notes were made because they wanted to get rid of the weight and bulk. Marco Pollo was one of the first to introduce them. -
Mar 8, 1478
Renaissance/ The Spanish Inquisition
The Spanish Inquisition was a brutal period where Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile. They were trying to keep the orthodoxy established against the jewish and Muslim religions. They estimate 150,000 deaths during this inquisition. -
Aug 3, 1492
Renaissance/ Columbus discovers the Americas
Columbus and his three ships Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria left to go to Asia. He was seeking gold, pearls, and spices. On his way to what he thought was Asia he was on the sea for much longer than he anticipated. His crew almost revolted. -
Jan 1, 1545
Reformation/ Council of Trent
The council of the catholic church met to review doctrin. It was held between 1545- 1563. Described as the embodiment of the counter revolution. -
Mar 20, 1561
Enlightenment/ The Leviathan was wrote
People say that the Leviathan was wrote partly as a response to the english civil wars. Hobbes wrote in a way that portrayed that there is no luck or coincidence but that there is a scientific answer for everything. -
Reformation/ Edict of Nantes
Henry the 4th started treating the protestants at an higher level than he used to. He gave them more religious freedom to believe in what they wanted. In October 1685 they revoked the edict of nantes. -
5th Dalai lama/ Tibet
Lobsang Gyatso was born in 1617 in Tsang to a family with traditional ties to the Sakya and Nyingma orders. His famous noble Zahor family had held their seat since the 14th century at Taktsé Castle, the former stronghold of the Tibetan kings. -
Enlightenment/ The Thirty Years War
The Thirty Years War took place in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648. The war started when Roman Emperor, Ferdinand II, tried to make the country follow one religion. Northern protestant states banded together to form the protestant. -
American Revolution/ Boston Tea Party
In 1773 American colonists dumped a shipment of british tea in the boston harbor. This was a protest to the Tea Act enforced by britian. This is tied into the famous line they used, " Taxation without Representation." -
French Revolution/ The Tennis Court Oath
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Tibet- Nepal War/ Tibet
In early April 1855 Nepalese troops attacked across the major passes between Tibet and Nepal, from Walungchung to Jara, with the center of their advance in the Kuti and Kerong districts and were joined shortly later by reinforcements completing a total of 27000 men, with thirty-six guns and eight mortars. On April 3rd Nepal had it's first victory at Chusan. -
Chinese Revolution/ China after 1949
The announcement ended the costly full-scale civil war between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang (KMT), which broke out immediately following World War II and had been preceded by on and off conflict between the two sides since the 1920’s. -
Cambodia/ Wins it's freedom
Although Cambodia had achieved independence by late 1953, its military situation remained unsettled. Noncommunist factions of the Khmer Issarak had joined the government, but pro-communist Viet Minh and United Issarak Front activities increased at the very time French Union forces were stretched thin elsewhere. In April 1954, several Viet Minh battalions crossed the border into Cambodia. -
Great Leap Forward/ China After 1949
The campaign was led by Chairman Mao Zedong and aimed to rapidly transform the country from an agrarian economy into a socialist society through rapid industrialization and collectivization. However, it is widely considered to have caused the Great Chinese Famine. -
Cambodia/ Renamed Democratic Kampuchea
January 1976, was the name of the Khmer Rouge (KR)-controlled state that, between 1975 and 1979, existed in present-day Cambodia. It was founded when the Khmer Rouge forces defeated the Khmer Republic of Lon Nol in 1975. During its rule between 1975 and 1979, the state and its ruling Khmer Rouge regime was responsible for the deaths of millions of Cambodians through forced labour and genocide. -
Khmer Rouge/ Vietnam takes Phomn Pehn
A powerful force of 150,000 Vietnamese troops and 15,000 Cambodian exiles, with tanks and air support, crossed the border into Cambodia on Christmas Day in 1978, swept all opposition aside and took the capital, Phnom Penh, two weeks later. -
Khmer Rouge/ Paris Peace Accord
The Paris Peace Accords were signed on October 23, 1991, and marked the official end of the Cambodian–Vietnamese War. The agreement led to the deployment of the first post-Cold War peace keeping mission (UNTAC) and the first ever occasion in which the UN took over as the government of a state. Nineteen governments signed the agreement. -
Korea/ Kim Ill Sung Dies
Kim Il-sung died unexpectedly on the afternoon of 8 July 1994 at age 82. North Korea's government did not report the death for more than 34 hours after it occurred. An official mourning period was declared from 8–17 July, during which the national flag was flown at half mast throughout the country, and all forms of amusement and dancing were prohibited. -
Korea/ Famine kills 3 million
The famine stemmed from a variety of factors. Economic mismanagement and the loss of Soviet support caused food production and imports to decline rapidly. A series of floods and droughts exacerbated the crisis. The North Korean government and its centrally planned system proved too inflexible to effectively curtail the disaster.
