World History

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Neolithic Revolution

c. 10,000–4,000 BCE; early farming communities, domesticators of crops and livestock.

Old Kingdom of Egypt

c. 2686–2181 BCE; Djoser, Imhotep, Sneferu, and Khufu.

Akkadian Empire

c. 2334–2154 BCE; Sargon of Akkad and Naram-Sin.

Code of Hammurabi

c. 1754 BCE; King Hammurabi of Babylon.

Classical Greece

c. 510–323 BCE; Pericles, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and Leonidas I.

Greco-Persian Wars

499–449 BCE; Darius I, Xerxes I, Themistocles, and Leonidas I.

Peloponnesian War

431–404 BCE; Pericles, Alcibiades, Brasidas, and Lysander.

Empire of Alexander the Great

336–323 BCE; Alexander the Great, Philip II of Macedon, and Darius III.

Maurya Empire

322–185 BCE; Chandragupta Maurya, Chanakya, and Ashoka the Great.

Qin Dynasty Unification

221–206 BCE; Qin Shi Huang and Li Si.

Punic Wars

264–146 BCE; Hannibal Barca, Scipio Africanus, and Hamilcar Barca.

Roman Republic Transition to Empire

44–27 BCE; Julius Caesar, Mark Antony, Cleopatra VII, and Augustus.

Pax Romana

27 BCE – 180 CE; Augustus, Trajan, Hadrian, and Marcus Aurelius.

Three Kingdoms Period (China)

220–280 CE; Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Sun Quan, and Zhuge Liang.

Christianization of the Roman Empire

313–380 CE; Constantine the Great and Theodosius I.

Fall of the Western Roman Empire

476 CE; Romulus Augustulus and Odoacer.

Reign of Justinian I

527–565 CE; Emperor Justinian I, Empress Theodora, and General Belisarius.

Rise of Islam

610–632 CE; Prophet Muhammad and Abu Bakr.

Tang Dynasty

618–907 CE; Emperor Taizong, Empress Wu Zetian, and Emperor Xuanzong.

Umayyad Caliphate

661–750 CE; Muawiya I, Abd al-Malik, and Tariq ibn Ziyad.

Abbasid Caliphate and Islamic Golden Age

750–1258 CE; Harun al-Rashid, Al-Ma'mun, Al-Khwarizmi, and Ibn Sina.

Carolingian Empire

800–888 CE; Charlemagne, Louis the Pious, and Pope Leo III.

Viking Age

793–1066 CE; Ragnar Lodbrok, Alfred the Great, and Harald Hardrada.

Norman Conquest of England

1066 CE; William the Conqueror and Harold Godwinson.

First Crusade

1096–1099 CE; Pope Urban II, Godfrey of Bouillon, and Bohemond of Taranto.

Mongol Empire Expansion

1206–1294 CE; Genghis Khan, Ogedei Khan, and Kublai Khan.

Magna Carta Signing

1215 CE; King John of England and Stephen Langton.

Mali Empire Golden Age

c. 1230–1670 CE; Sundiata Keita and Mansa Musa.

Black Death in Europe

1346–1353 CE; Pope Clement VI and King Philip VI of France.

Hundred Years' War

1337–1453 CE; Edward III, Henry V, Charles VII, and Joan of Arc.

Italian Renaissance

c. 1350–1600 CE; Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Lorenzo de' Medici.

Fall of Constantinople

1453 CE; Sultan Mehmed II and Constantine XI Palaiologos.

European Age of Discovery

c. 1400s–1600s; Prince Henry the Navigator, Vasco da Gama, and Christopher Columbus.

Protestant Reformation

1517–1648; Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Henry VIII.

Spanish Conquest of the Americas

1519–1572; Hernán Cortés, Moctezuma II, Francisco Pizarro, and Atahualpa.

Mughal Empire Golden Age

1526–1707; Babur, Akbar the Great, and Shah Jahan.

Scientific Revolution

c. 1543–1687; Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, and Isaac Newton.

Tokugawa Shogunate

1603–1867; Tokugawa Ieyasu, Tokugawa Iemitsu, and Tokugawa Yoshinobu.

Thirty Years' War

1618–1648; Ferdinand II, Cardinal Richelieu, and Gustavus Adolphus.

The Enlightenment

c. 1685–1815; John Locke, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Immanuel Kant.

First Industrial Revolution

c. 1760–1840; James Watt, Richard Arkwright, and George Stephenson.

American Revolution

1775–1783; George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and King George III.

French Revolution

1789–1799; Louis XVI, Maximilien Robespierre, and Georges Danton.

Haitian Revolution

1791–1804; Toussaint Louverture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, and Henri Christophe.

Napoleonic Era

1799–1815; Napoleon Bonaparte, Duke of Wellington, and Tsar Alexander I.

Latin American Wars of Independence

1808–1826; Simón Bolívar, José de San Martín, and Miguel Hidalgo.

Meiji Restoration

1868–1912; Emperor Meiji, Sakamoto Ryoma, and Saigo Takamori.

Scramble for Africa

1881–1914; Otto von Bismarck, King Leopold II, and Cecil Rhodes.

World War I

1914–1918; Woodrow Wilson, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Georges Clemenceau, and David Lloyd George.

Russian Revolution

1917; Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Tsar Nicholas II.

The Great Depression

1929–1939; Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and John Maynard Keynes.

World War II

1939–1945; Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The Cold War

1947–1991; Harry S. Truman, Joseph Stalin, John F. Kennedy, and Mikhail Gorbachev.

Decolonization of India

1947; Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

Fall of the Berlin Wall and Collapse of the USSR

1989–1991; Mikhail Gorbachev, Ronald Reagan, and Boris Yeltsin.