Part 3

206-220 Reign of Han dynasty in China

206 BCE

39 Trung sisters revolt in Vietnam

39

100-200 Camels introduced for trade in the Sahara

100

109 Choson conquered by China

109

111 Vietnam conquered by China

111

220 End of Han dynasty

220

220-589 Era of the six Dynastic; political discord in China; time of great Buddhist influence

220

222-589 Era of Division in China

222

300 Origins of the kingdom of Ghana

300

330s Constantinople becomes capital of eatern Roman empire

330

500-900 Recovery period after Rome's fall; Christian

500

500-900 Recovery period after Rome's fall; Christian missionaries work in northern Europe

500

527-565 Justinian, Eastern Roman Emperor

527

527-565 Reign of Justinian

527

570-632 Life of Muhammad

570

570 Birth of the prophet Muhammad

570

589-618 Sui dynasty

589

589-618 Sui dynasty; building of the Grand Canal

589

589-618 Sui dynasty in China

589

597-626 Wars between the Byzantine and Sassanian Empires

597

598-626 Wars between the Byzantine and Sassanian Empires

598

600-700 Islam spreads across North Africa

Dec 19, 600

610-613 Origins of Islam

Dec 18, 610

610 Muhammad's first revelations

Dec 19, 610

613 Muhammad begins to preach the new faith

Dec 19, 613

618-907 Tang dynasty

Dec 18, 618

618-626 Gaozu emperor

Dec 19, 618

618-907 Tang dynasty

Dec 19, 618

627-649 Tang Taizong emperor

Dec 19, 618

618-907 Tang dynasty in China

Dec 20, 618

622 Muhammad's flight from Mecca to Medina

Dec 19, 622

624-627 Wars between the followers of Muhammad and the Quraysh of Mecca

Dec 19, 624

628 Muslim-Mecca Truce

Dec 19, 628

630 Muhammad enters Mecca in triumph

Dec 19, 630

632 Death of Muhammad

Dec 19, 632

632-634 Rule of Caliph Abu Bakr

Dec 19, 632

633-634 Ridda Wars in Arabia

Dec 19, 633

634-750 Arab Expansion in Middle East; spread of Islam In North Africa

Dec 18, 634

634-643 Early Muslim conquests in the Byzantine empire

Dec 19, 634

634-644 Rule of Caliph Umar

Dec 19, 634

637 Arab invasion and destruction of Sasanian Empire

Dec 19, 637

644-656 Rule of Caliph Uthman

Dec 19, 644

646 Taika reforms in Japan

Dec 20, 646

650s Slavic migrations eastern Europe

Dec 19, 650

656-661 Rule of Caliph Ali; first civil war

Dec 19, 656

661-750 Ummayad Caliphate

Dec 18, 661

661-680 Mu'awiya

Dec 19, 661

661-750 Umayyad caliphate

Dec 19, 661

668 Korean becomes independent from China

Dec 18, 668

668 Korea wins independence from Tang conquerors

Dec 20, 668

680 Death of Ali's son Husayn at Karbala

Dec 19, 680

680-692 Second civil war

Dec 19, 680

688 Korean conquest; vassal state of Silla

Dec 19, 688

690-705 Empress Wu; Buddhist influence in China peaks

Dec 19, 690

710-784 Imperial Japanese capital at Nara

Dec 20, 710

771 First Islamic incursion into India

Dec 18, 711

712-756 Xuanzong emperor

Dec 19, 712

718 Byzantines defeat Arab attack on Constantinople

Dec 18, 718

718 Arab attack on Constantinople defeated

Dec 19, 718

732 Franks defeat Muslim in France

Dec 19, 732

732 Franks defeat Muslims in France

Dec 19, 732

744-750 Third civil war; Abbasid revolt

Dec 19, 744

750 Abbasid caliphate founded

Dec 18, 750

750 Abbasid caliphate begins

Dec 19, 750

775-785 Reign of al-Mahdi

Dec 19, 775

777 Independent Islamic kingdoms begin i North Africa and Iberia

Dec 18, 777

777 independent dynasty established in Algeria

Dec 19, 777

786-809 Reign of al-Rashid

Dec 19, 786

788 independent dynasty established in Morocco

Dec 19, 788

794 Japanese capital shifts to Heian

Dec 20, 794

800-814 Charlemagne's Empire in western Europe

Dec 18, 800

800 independent dynasty established in Turnisia

Dec 19, 800

800-814 Charlemagne's empire

Dec 19, 800

800-814 Beginning of Christian reconquest of Spain

Dec 19, 800

809 First war of succession between Abbasid princes

Dec 19, 809

813-833 Reign of al-Ma'mun; first mercenary forces recruited

Dec 19, 813

838 Last Japanese embassy to China

Dec 20, 838

840s Period of Buddhist persecution

Dec 19, 840

855 Russian kingdom around Kiev

Dec 18, 855

855 Rurik king of Kievan Russia

Dec 19, 855

857-1160 Period of Fujiwara

Dec 20, 857

864 Cyril and Methodius missionaries in eastern Europe

Dec 18, 864

864 Beginning of Christian missionary

Dec 19, 864

865-925 Life of al-Razi, physician and scientist

Dec 19, 865

870 First kingdom in Czech and Slovak republics

Dec 19, 870

878 Last Japanese embassy to China

Dec 18, 878

896 Magyars settle in Hungary

Dec 19, 896

900-1000 Spread of new plows; use of horses in agriculture and transport

Dec 19, 900

900 End of intermediate horizon and decline of Tihuanaco

Dec 19, 900

900-1465 Chimor Empire based on Chan-Chan on north coast of Peru

Dec 19, 900

907 End of the Tang dynasty

Dec 19, 907

907-1118 Khitan conquest of North China

Dec 20, 907

918-1392 Koryo dynasty in Korea

Dec 20, 918

939 Vietnam wins independence from China

Dec 20, 939

945 Persian Buyids capture Bagdad; caliphs become puppet rulers

Dec 19, 945

960-1127 Song dynasty

Dec 18, 960

960 Emergence of Polish state

Dec 19, 960

960-1279 Song dynasty; Neo-Confucian revival

Dec 19, 960

960-1279 Song dynasty in China

Dec 20, 960

962 Germanic kings revive Roman empire

Dec 19, 962

968 Tula established by Totecs

Dec 18, 968

968 Tula established by Toltecs

Dec 19, 968

980-1015 Christian Conversion of Vladimir I of Russia

Dec 18, 980

980-1015 Conversion of Russia to Christianity

Dec 19, 980

980-1009 Le dynasty in Vietnam

Dec 20, 980

998 Beginning of Ghanzi raids into western India

Dec 19, 998

1000 Ghana Empire at its height

Dec 18, 1000

1000 Ghana at height of its power

Dec 19, 1000

1000 Toltec conquest of Chichen Itza and influence in Yucatan

Dec 19, 1000

1018 Byzntine defeat of Bulgarian kingdom

Dec 19, 1018

1018 Beginning of Christian reconquest of Spain

Dec 19, 1018

1019-1054 Reign of Yaroslav, ling of Rus'

Dec 19, 1019

1020 Death of Firdawsi, author of the Shah-Nama

Dec 19, 1020

1037-1194 Seljuk Turks dominate the Middle East

Dec 20, 1037

1038-1123 Life of Omar Khayyam, scientist and poet

Dec 19, 1038

1050 Invention of block printing with movable type

Dec 19, 1050

1054 Schism between Eastern and Western Christianity

Dec 18, 1054

1054 Schism between Eastern and Western Christianity

Dec 19, 1054

1055 Seljuk Turks control Abbasid caliphate

Dec 18, 1055

1055 Seljuk Turks overthrow Buyids, control caliphate

Dec 19, 1055

1058-1111 Life of al-Ghazali, philosopher and scientist

Dec 19, 1058

1066 Norman conquest of England; rise of feudal monarchy in Western Europe

Dec 18, 1066

1066 Norman conquest of England, strong feudal monarchy

Dec 19, 1066

1067-1085 Shenzon emperor; reforms of Wang Anshi

Dec 19, 1067

1070-1141 Peter Abelard

Dec 19, 1070

1073-1085 Gregory Vll, reform pope

Dec 19, 1073

1096-1099 First Christian Crusade to Palestine

Dec 18, 1096

1096-1099 First Christian Crusade in Palestine

Dec 19, 1096

1096-1270 Crusade

Dec 19, 1096

1100 Invention of explosive powder

Dec 18, 1100

1100 Almoravid movement in the Sahara

Dec 19, 1100

1100-1453 Byzantine decline; under growing attack by Ottomans

Dec 19, 1100

1100 Invention of gunpowder

Dec 19, 1100

1115 Jurchen kingdom in north China

Dec 19, 1115

1115-1234 Jurchens rule north China

Dec 20, 1115

1119 First reference to use of compass for sea navigation

Dec 19, 1119

1126 Song dynasty flees to south China

Dec 20, 1126

1127-1279 Southern Song dynasty

Dec 19, 1127

1130-1250 Almohads rule north Africa and Spain

Dec 20, 1130

1150-1350 Spread of Gothic style; scholasticism in western Europe

Dec 18, 1150

1150-1350 Spread of Gothic style; scholasticism in western Europe

Dec 18, 1150

1150-1300 Gothic style spreads

Dec 19, 1150

1150 Fall of Tula, disintegration of Toltec Empire

Dec 19, 1150

1160-1185 Taira clan dominant in Japan

Dec 20, 1160

1180 University of Paris

Dec 19, 1180

1180-1185 Gempei Wars in Japan

Dec 20, 1180

1185-1333 Kamakura Shogunate

Dec 18, 1185

1185-1333 Kamakura Shogunate in Japan

Dec 20, 1185

1200 rise of empire of Mali

Dec 18, 1200

1200 Rise of the empire of Mali

Dec 19, 1200

1200-1274 Thomas Aquinas and flowering of scholasticism

Dec 19, 1200

1200-1500 Mississippian culture flourished

Dec 19, 1200

1203-1204 fourth Crusade, Westerners sack Constantinople

Dec 19, 1203

1206 Delhi sultanate in India

Dec 18, 1206

1206 Establish of the Delhi sultanate in India

Dec 19, 1206

1206 Temujin takes he name of Chingis Khan; Mongol state founded

Dec 20, 1206

1215 Magna Carta

Dec 19, 1215

1215 First Mongol attacks on north China; Beijing captures

Dec 20, 1215

1219-1223 First Mongol invasion of Russia and Islamic world

Dec 20, 1219

1226-1270 Louis IX of France

Dec 19, 1226

1227 Death of Chinggis Khan; Ogedei named successor

Dec 20, 1227

1231-1392 Mongols rule Korea

Dec 18, 1231

1231-1392 Mongol rule in Korea

Dec 20, 1231

1234 Mongols take all of north China; end of Jin dynasty

Dec 20, 1234

1235-1279 Mongol conquest of south China; end of southern Song dynasty

Dec 20, 1235

1236 Capture of Baghdad by Mongol Empire in China

Dec 18, 1236

1236-1240 Mongol conquest of Russia

Dec 20, 1236

1237-124 Mongols capture Russia

Dec 19, 1237

1240-1241 Mongol invasion of western Europe

Dec 20, 1240

1253 Mongol victory over Seljuk Turks; rise of Ottoman Turks in Middle East

Dec 20, 1253

1258 Fall of Baghdad to Mongols; end of Abbasid caliphate

Dec 19, 1258

1258 Mongol destruction of Baghdad

Dec 20, 1258

1258 Mongol conquest of Baghdad; fall of Abbasid caliphate

Dec 20, 1258

1258 Mongol conquest of Baghdad; fall Abbasid caliphate

Dec 20, 1258

1260 Death of Sundiata

Dec 18, 1260

1260 Death of Sundiata; earliest stone builds at Zimbabwe; Lalibela rules in Ethiopia; Yoruba culture flourishes at Ile-Ife

Dec 19, 1260

1260 Mamluk rulers of Egypt defeat Mongols at Ain; end of drive west

Dec 20, 1260

1260-1294 Reign of Kubilia Khan in China

Dec 20, 1260

1265 First English parliament

Dec 18, 1265

1266-1337 Life of Giotto

Dec 20, 1266

1271-1368 Reign of the Yuan dynasty in China

Dec 20, 1271

1274-1280 Failed Mongol invasions of Japan

Dec 20, 1274

1275-1292 Marco Polo in China

Dec 20, 1275

1279-1368 Mongol Empire in China

Dec 18, 1279

1279-1368 Mongol dynasty rule all China

Dec 19, 1279

1279-1368 Mongol rule in China

Dec 20, 1279

1290s Islam begins to spread to southeast Asia

Dec 18, 1290

1290s Beginning of the spread of Islam in southeast Asia

Dec 19, 1290

1290s First rue guns used in China

Dec 20, 1290

1290-1317 Famines in Europe

Dec 20, 1290

1291 Fall of Acre; last crusader stronghold in Middle East

Dec 19, 1291

1291 First Italian expedition seeks route to Indies

Dec 20, 1291

1300 Mali at its height; Kanem empire is a rival

Dec 19, 1300

1300 Maliat its height; Kanem empire is a rival

Dec 19, 1300

1303 Seizure of papacy by French king

Dec 19, 1303

1304-1374 Life of Petrach; development of Italian Renaissance

Dec 20, 1304

1320 Europeans first use cannons in war

Dec 18, 1320

1320-1340 Bubonic plague breaks out in Gobi desert and spreads to other parts of Asia and west to the Mediterranean and Europe

Dec 18, 1320

1320s Spread of bubonic plague in Gobi desert

Dec 20, 1320

1324 Pilgrimage of Mansa Musa

Dec 19, 1324

1325 Rise of Aztec Empire

Dec 18, 1325

1325 Aztec established in central Mexico; Tenochtitlan founded

Dec 19, 1325

1330s Black Death reaches China

Dec 20, 1330

1336-1405 Life of Timur

Dec 20, 1336

1338-1453 Hundred Year's War in Europe

Dec 18, 1338

1338-1453 Hundred Year's War

Dec 19, 1338

1347 Black Death reaches Sicily

Dec 20, 1347

1348-1453 Black Death

Dec 19, 1348

1348-1375 Black Death spreads in Europe and Russia

Dec 20, 1348

1350 Rise of Incas

Dec 18, 1350

1350 Incas established in Cuzco area

Dec 19, 1350

1368 mongol expelled from China; Ming dynasty

Dec 20, 1368

1392-1910 Yi dynasty in Korea

Dec 18, 1392

1400 end of Polynesian expedition

Dec 18, 1400

1400 Flourishing of cities of Timbuktu and Jenne; Ethiopian Christian kingdom; Swahili cities flourish on east African coast

Dec 19, 1400

1400 Spread of Black Death in Eurasia

Dec 20, 1400

1400 End of Polynesian migrations

Dec 20, 1400

1405-1433 Chinese trading expeditions

Dec 18, 1405

1405-1433 Chinese trading expeditions

Dec 20, 1405

1434-11471 Great expansion under Inca Pachacuti

Dec 19, 1434

1434-1472 Rule of Nezhualsoyotl at Texcoco

Dec 19, 1434

1438 Incas dominate Cuzco and southern highlands

Dec 19, 1438

1439 Portugal captures Azores island

Dec 18, 1439

1439 Portugal takes over Azores; increasing expeditions into Atlantic and along northwest African coast

Dec 20, 1439

1440-1469 Reign of Moctezuma l

Dec 19, 1440

1453 Turks capture Consantinople; end of Byzantine Empire

Dec 18, 1453

1453 Ottomans capture Constantinople

Dec 20, 1453

1467-1477 Onin War in Japan

Dec 20, 1467

1469 Formation of single Spanish monarchy

Dec 19, 1469

1469 Union of Aragon and Castile; rise of Spanish monarchy

Dec 20, 1469

1471-1493 Peak of Inca Empire

Dec 18, 1471

1471,1431 Last Chinese trade voyage to east Africa

Dec 19, 1471

1471-1493 Inca Topac Yupanqui increases areas under control

Dec 19, 1471

1480 Expulsion of Tatars from Russia

Dec 19, 1480

1493-1527 Huayana Capac expands into Ecuador; his death results in civil war

Dec 19, 1493

1500 Songhay empire flourishes; Benin at height of power

Dec 19, 1500

1500 Nguyen dynasty in central/south Vietnam founded

Dec 20, 1500

1502-1520 Reign of Montezuma ll

Dec 19, 1502

1539-1787 Trihn dynasty in Red river area

Dec 20, 1539

1600 Founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan

Dec 20, 1600

1265 First England parliament

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