{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/world-history-key-dates",
 "id": "world-history-key-dates",
 "title": "World History: Key Dates",
 "category": "history",
 "subject": "World History",
 "levels": [
  "6-8",
  "9-12"
 ],
 "description": "When major events happened around the world, from ancient times to today.",
 "tags": [
  "dates",
  "timeline",
  "world history"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Event",
 "backLabel": "Date",
 "cards": [
  [
   "Sumerian cities appear",
   "About 3500 BCE"
  ],
  [
   "Egypt unified under the first pharaoh",
   "About 3100 BCE"
  ],
  [
   "Great Pyramid of Giza built",
   "About 2560 BCE"
  ],
  [
   "Code of Hammurabi",
   "About 1754 BCE"
  ],
  [
   "Tutankhamun rules Egypt",
   "About 1332-1323 BCE"
  ],
  [
   "First Olympic Games (traditional date)",
   "776 BCE"
  ],
  [
   "Rome founded (traditional date)",
   "753 BCE"
  ],
  [
   "Rome becomes a republic",
   "509 BCE"
  ],
  [
   "Athens develops democracy",
   "About 508 BCE"
  ],
  [
   "Battle of Marathon",
   "490 BCE"
  ],
  [
   "Parthenon built",
   "447-432 BCE"
  ],
  [
   "Alexander the Great's reign",
   "336-323 BCE"
  ],
  [
   "Qin unifies China",
   "221 BCE"
  ],
  [
   "Han Dynasty begins",
   "206 BCE"
  ],
  [
   "Julius Caesar assassinated",
   "44 BCE"
  ],
  [
   "Augustus becomes first Roman emperor",
   "27 BCE"
  ],
  [
   "Vesuvius buries Pompeii",
   "79 CE"
  ],
  [
   "Constantine legalizes Christianity",
   "313 CE"
  ],
  [
   "Western Roman Empire ends",
   "476 CE"
  ],
  [
   "Muhammad's migration to Medina (Hijra)",
   "622 CE"
  ],
  [
   "Charlemagne crowned emperor",
   "800 CE"
  ],
  [
   "Norman conquest of England",
   "1066"
  ],
  [
   "First Crusade begins",
   "1096"
  ],
  [
   "Magna Carta",
   "1215"
  ],
  [
   "Genghis Khan unites the Mongols",
   "1206"
  ],
  [
   "Mansa Musa's pilgrimage",
   "1324"
  ],
  [
   "Black Death in Europe",
   "1347-1351"
  ],
  [
   "Joan of Arc at Orleans",
   "1429"
  ],
  [
   "Printing press in Europe",
   "About 1450"
  ],
  [
   "Fall of Constantinople",
   "1453"
  ],
  [
   "Columbus reaches the Americas",
   "1492"
  ],
  [
   "Vasco da Gama reaches India",
   "1498"
  ],
  [
   "Luther's 95 Theses",
   "1517"
  ],
  [
   "Cortes conquers the Aztec",
   "1521"
  ],
  [
   "Magellan's fleet circles the globe",
   "1519-1522"
  ],
  [
   "Spanish Armada defeated",
   "1588"
  ],
  [
   "Shakespeare's life",
   "1564-1616"
  ],
  [
   "Taj Mahal begun",
   "1632"
  ],
  [
   "Newton's Principia",
   "1687"
  ],
  [
   "Glorious Revolution",
   "1688"
  ],
  [
   "American Revolution",
   "1775-1783"
  ],
  [
   "French Revolution begins",
   "1789"
  ],
  [
   "Haiti becomes independent",
   "1804"
  ],
  [
   "Napoleon defeated at Waterloo",
   "1815"
  ],
  [
   "Latin American independence wars",
   "1810s-1820s"
  ],
  [
   "Revolutions of 1848",
   "1848"
  ],
  [
   "Meiji Restoration in Japan",
   "1868"
  ],
  [
   "Unification of Germany",
   "1871"
  ],
  [
   "Scramble for Africa begins",
   "1880s"
  ],
  [
   "World War I",
   "1914-1918"
  ],
  [
   "Russian Revolution",
   "1917"
  ],
  [
   "Great Depression begins",
   "1929"
  ],
  [
   "World War II",
   "1939-1945"
  ],
  [
   "Indian independence",
   "1947"
  ],
  [
   "People's Republic of China founded",
   "1949"
  ],
  [
   "Sputnik launched",
   "1957"
  ],
  [
   "Most African countries gain independence",
   "1950s-1960s"
  ],
  [
   "Berlin Wall built",
   "1961"
  ],
  [
   "Berlin Wall falls",
   "1989"
  ],
  [
   "Soviet Union ends",
   "1991"
  ],
  [
   "End of apartheid and Mandela elected",
   "1994"
  ],
  [
   "Euro introduced",
   "1999 (coins and notes in 2002)"
  ],
  [
   "First iPhone released",
   "2007"
  ],
  [
   "Roman Republic ends",
   "27 BCE"
  ],
  [
   "Inca Empire falls to Spain",
   "1532-1533"
  ],
  [
   "Mongol Empire reaches China",
   "1271 (Yuan Dynasty)"
  ],
  [
   "Ming Dynasty founded",
   "1368"
  ],
  [
   "Mughal Empire founded",
   "1526"
  ],
  [
   "Ottoman Empire founded",
   "About 1299"
  ]
 ]
}