Year
Important Event
1200
1200 BC - Siege of Troy
800
800 BC - Homer’s Illiad and Odessy
400
356 - 323 BC - Alexander the Great’s Conquering March
200
146 BC - Greeks Conquered By Romans
0
4 AD - Jesus Born
476 AD- Roman Empire Destroyed
500
500 - Dark Ages Begin
962 - 1000 - Formation of Holy Roman Empire and High Middle Ages
1000
1095 - 1300 - The Crusades, Asian Invaders
1300
1337 - Hundred Year’s War
1348 - The Bubonic Plague
1400
1400 - Italian Renaissance
1450 - Printing Press
1452 - 1519 - Leonardo da Vinci
1492 - Discovery of the New World
1500
1520 - The Protestant Reformation
1530 - Spanish Conquistadors
1543 - The Structure of the Human Body
1543 - On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Orbs
1555 - Peace of Augsburg
1561 - 1650 - Bacon and Descartes
1600
1600 - Mercantilism and the East India Companies
1609 - Galileo Constructs a Telescope
1618 - 1648 - Thirty Years War
1630 - 1640 - Puritans Settle in New England
1643 - Louis XIV Takes Throne of France
1648 - Peace of Westphalia
1650 - 1700 - Pre-Imperialism
1651 - Hobbes and Locke
1652 - Liberum Veto
1653 - Thomas Pitt
1657 - Formation of Prussia
1660 - English Restoration
1682 - Peter the Great
1687 - Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
1688 - Glorious Revolution
1689 - Montesquieu Born
1694 - Voltaire Born
1700
1712 - Rousseau Born
1713 - War of Spanish Succession and the Peace of Utrecht
1713 - Pragmatic Sanction
1720 - The Breaking of the ‘Bubbles’
1733 - 1763 - Austrian Succession, French and Indian War and 7 Years War
1751 - 1772 - The Encyclopedia
1762 - Catherine the Great
1763 - Peace of Paris
1763 - Steam Engine
1772 - Partition of Poland
1775 - The American Revolution
1776 - Wealth of Nations
1789 - The French Revolution
1791 - Declaration of Pillnitz and the Coalitions
1792 - The Terror
1793 - Cotton Gin
1799 - Napoleon Takes Power
1800
1800 - 1850 - The Rise of Germanic Nationalism
1803 - Louisiana Purchase
1809 - Defeat of Austria
1812 - War of 1812
1812 - The Defeat of Napoleon
1814 - The Congress of Vienna
1815 - The Hundred Days and the Escape of Napoleon
1818 - Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle
1819 - 1850s - The Isms
1820s - Latin American Independence
1821 - Gold Standard
1823 - The Monroe Doctrine
1830s - Revolutions of Europe
1839 - Opium Wars in China
1845 - Mexican American War
1848 - February Revolution
1848 - Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
1848 - March Days and the German Revolutions
1848 - The Frankfurt Assembly
1848 - The Communist Manifesto and Marxism
1848 - Communist Manifesto
1850
1850s - Ottoman Empire Collapsing
1850 - 1940 - Migration from Europe
1854 - 1856 - Crimean War
1859 - Italian Unification
1859 - Origin of the Species
1861 - Emancipation Act
1863 - Emancipation Proclamation
1867 - Dominion of Canada
1871 - Bismarck and German Empire
1871 - Paris Commune
1877 - Russo-Turkish War and Congress of Berlin
1900
1900ish - Rise of Imperialism
1904 - Russo Japanese War
1905 - Revolution of 1905 and Bloody Sunday
1914 - Assassination of Francis Ferdinand
1917 - Zimmerman Telegram
1917 - Lusitania Sinking
1917 - Revolution of 1917
1918 - Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
1919 - Treaty of Versailles and Wilson’s 14 Points
1922 - Formation of USSR
1922 - Italian Fascism and Mussolini
1924 - Rise of Stalin
1924 - Dawes Plan
1925
1925 - Locarno
1926 - English General Strike
1928 - The Purges and 5 Year Plans
1929 - Great Depression
1932 - FDR Elected
1933 - Reichstag Fire and Rise of the Nazi Party
1934 - Long March
1935 - Nuremburg Laws
1936 - The Spanish Civil War
1938 - Munich Crisis
1941 - Lend-Lease Begins
1943 - Stalingrad
1944 - D-Day
1945 - Potsdam Conference
1945 - Formation of the United Nations
1945 - Central American Growth
1947 - Marshall Plan
1947 - End of British in India
1948 - Berlin Blockade
1948 - The Mess in the Middle East
1950
1950 - The Korean War
1953 - The Death of Stalin and Hardening of the Cold War
1960s - African Pullout
1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis
1963 - Kennedy Assassination
1963 - Nuclear Arms Treaty
1965 - The Vietnam War
1969 - Moon Landing
1975
1975 - Helsinki Conference
1984 - The Birth of Alex Fortney
1986 - Chernobyl
1987 - World Population at 5 Billion
1989 - The Berlin Wall
1991 - Gulf War
2000
2003 - AP Test Taking