WHAP: The Ultimate Guide to World History
333 CE
Date: Roman Capital moved to Constantinople
1905
Date: Russo-Japanese War
1857
Date: Sepoy Mutiny or failed Indian revolution against British East India Company colonial rule
1967
Date: Six-day war in Israel; Chinese Cultural Revolution
1502
Date: Slaves begin moving to Americas
1898
Date: Spanish-American War - US acquires Philippines,Cuba, Guam, and Puerto Rico
1910
Date: Start of the ten year long Mexican Revolution. Not to be confused with Mexican war of Independence
1929
Date: Stock Market Crash
1830
Date: The Greeks gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in this year.
1867
Date: The Serbians gained independence from the Ottoman Empire in this year.
1453
Date: The year that Constantinople was sacked by the Ottoman Turks and meant that Byzantium had collapsed.
1618
Date: Thirty Years War begins
1989
Date: Tiananmen Square protest in China; Fall of Berlin Wall in Germany
1325 CE
Date: Travels of Ibn Battuta begin
1919
Date: Treaty of Versailles - End of WWI
1954
Date: Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu
1914-1918
Date: WWI (from start to finish)
1917
Date: Year of successful Russian Revolution(s)
1956
Date: de-Stalinization in Russia; Egyptian nationalization of Suez Canal
1948
Date: declaration of of Israeli statehood
1945
Date: end of WWII
1991
Date: fall of USSR; 1st Gulf war near Iraq
1994
Date: genocide in Rwanda/1st all race elections in S. Africa
1947
Date: independence & partition of India
385
Date: the year the Roman Empire Split.
1683
Date: unsuccessful Ottoman seige of Vienna
Abbasid Caliphate
(750-1258 CE) Third of the Islamic Caliphates of the Islamic Empire. The rulers who built their capital in Baghdad after overthrowing the Umayyad caliphs. In started in 750 CE. It flourished for two centuries, but slowly went into decline with the rise to power of the Turkish army it had created, the Mamluks. In the 13th century the Mongols displaced them.
Abraham Lincoln
16th president of the United States; helped preserve the United States by leading the defeat of the secessionist Confederacy; an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery.
Abolitionism
A movement to end slavery.
Abbasids
Abbasids or Umayyads? Were more open and integrating of non Arab peoples, and were more open to the non-Arab masses converting to Islam.
19th Amendment
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (1920) extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections.
1453 CE
Date: Ottomans capture Constantinople
1941
Date: Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII
1533
Date: Pizarro Toppled the Incas
221 BCE
Date: Qin Unified China
632 CE
Date: Rise of Islam
1987
Date: 1st Palestinian Intifada
1756
Date: 7 years war between France and Britain begins
2001
Date: 9/11 Attacks
323 BCE
Date: Alexander the Great dies
1776
Date: American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations
1571
Date: Battle of Lepanto
1071 CE
Date: Battle of Manzikert
1600
Date: Battle of Sekigahara - Beginning of Tokugawa
732 CE
Date: Battle of Tours
3000s BCE
Date: Beginning of Bronze Age and river valley civilizations
4th century CE
Date: Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes
10000 BCE
Date: Beginnings of Agriculture
32 CE
Date: Beginnings of Christianity
1885
Date: Berlin Conference - Division of Africa
1347 CE
Date: Black Death hits Europe
1899
Date: Boer War - British in control of South Africa
1949
Date: Chinese Communist Revolution
1911
Date: Chinese Revolution against traditional Chinese Imperial system.
1492
Date: Columbus "Sailed the Ocean Blue" / Reconquista of Spain
1853
Date: Commodore Perry opens Japan to trade
1815
Date: Congress of Vienna
1521
Date: Cortez conquered the Aztecs
1962
Date: Cuban Missile Crisis
1959
Date: Cuban Revolution
1810s
Date: Decade when Independence in mainland Latin America began
1588
Date: Defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British
1488
Date: Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope
1054 CE
Date: East-West Great Schism in Christian Church
1863
Date: Emancipation Proclamation in US
220 CE
Date: End of Han Dynasty
180 CE
Date: End of Pax Romana
1861
Date: End of Russian Serfdom/Italian Unification
1433 CE
Date: End of Zheng He's Voyages/Rise of Ottomans
1880s
Date: Europeans scramble for Africa colonies started in this decade
476 CE
Date: Fall of Rome
1095 CE
Date: First Crusade
1839
Date: First Opium War in China
1607
Date: Founding of Jamestown
1789
Date: French Revolution begins
1871
Date: German Unification
1939
Date: German blitzkrieg in Poland starting WWII in Europe.
1689
Date: Glorious Revolution / English Bill of Rights
5th century BCE
Date: Greek Golden Age - Philosophers
1804
Date: Haitian Independence
1979
Date: Iranian Revolution
1300 BCE
Date: Iron Age
1935
Date: Italian invasion of Ethiopia
1931
Date: Japanese invasion of Manchuria
527 CE
Date: Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire
1950
Date: Korean War starts
1324 CE
Date: Mansa Musa's Pilgrimage
1848
Date: Many European Revolutions / Marx and Engles write Communist Manifesto
1271-1295 CE
Date: Marco Polo Travels
1517
Date: Martin Luther and 95 Theses
1258 CE
Date: Mongols sack Baghdad
1066 CE
Date: Norman Conquest of England
6th century BCE
Date: Origin of Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism
Abbasid Dynasty
From 750-1258 this was the 3rd dyansty of the Islamic Caliphate. They built their capital in Baghdad after overthrowing the Umayyad caliphate.
95 Theses
It was nailed to a church door in Wittenberg, Germany in 1517 and is widely seen as being the catalyst that started the Protestant Reformation. It contained Luther's list of accusations against the Roman Catholic Church.
Abbas the Great
Safavid ruler from 1587 to 1629; extended Safavid domain to greatest extent; created slave regiments based on captured Russians, who monopolized firearms within Safavid armies; incorporated Western military technology.
Aboriginals
The indigenous people of Australia; arrived 40,000 years ago; mistreated by European settlers.
Aborigine
The general named often used to describe the original inhabitants of Australia.
Abolition
The movement to make slavery and the slave trade illegal. Begun by Quakers in England in the 1780s.
Abdicate
to renounce or relinquish a throne, right, power, claim, responsibility, or the like, especially in a formal manner
