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Chronology
(Dates you need to know)

* * *

First Semester
1348 B.C. Height of Akhenaton's Revolution; Hittites in Mesopotamia; Mycenaean Greece; Zhou Dynasty

399 B.C.

 Death of Socrates

221 B.C.

 Rise of the Qin Dynasty in China
6 or 4 B.C. Birth of Jesus

70 A.D.

 Destruction of Temple in Jerusalem

221 A.D.

 Fall of the Han Empire in China

476 A.D.

 Fall of Rome
622 A.D. = 1 A.H. Mohammed's flight from Mecca to Medina (Hegira or Hijri) marking the first date of the Islamic calendar
1000 A.D. Lief Erikson in Vinland; Iceland is last major Viking region to convert to Christianity
1066 A.D. Norman conquest / Battle of Hastings
1348 A.D. Black Plague in Europe; Beginning of Mongol Decline in China
1453 A.D. Fall of Constantinople
1492 A.D. Spain: "Discovery" of the Americas, expulsion of the Jews, and the conquest of Granada
1520 A.D. Luther's 95 Theses; Cortez' conquest of the Aztecs; Magellan's World Circumnavigation
1648 A.D. Peace of Westphalia (end of the era of European Wars of Religion); Beginning of Qing Dynasty (1644 A.D.) in China

* * *

Second Semester
1600 A.D. Beginning of the Baroque era (approx.)
1750 A.D. Death of J.S. Bach
1776 A.D. American Revolution: Signing the Declaration of Independence
1789 - 1792 A.D. French Revolution
1812 A.D. Napoleon's defeat in Russia
1914 - 1918 A.D. WWI
1939 - 1945 A.D. WWII
December 7, 1941 A.D. Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
August 6, 1945 - 8:15 a.m. A.D. Hiroshima destroyed by nuclear bomb
July 23, 1965 A.D. Dawn of World Civilizations
October 4, 1984 A.D. International Celebration Day
1989 A.D. Collapse of Communism in Europe

Other Chronological Elements:

Ah!  B's in SAP (Sequence of Civilizations in Mesopotamia)

Sumerian

          Akkadian

     Babylonian I (Amorite)

          Hittite

Assyrian

     Babylonian II (Chaldean)

Persian

SPAA (Greek Philosophers)

Socrates/Plato/Aristotle/Alexander the Great

The Julio-Claudian Emperors

First Triumvirate (Julius Caesar, Crassus, Pompey)

Julius Caesar

Second Triumvirate (Octavian, Marc Antony, Lepidus)

Caesar Augustus (Octavian)

Tiberius

Caligula

Claudius

Nero

Mr. Borneman's 13 Stages of the History of Chinese Civilization

1. Xia

2. Shang

3. Zhou

4. Warring States

5. Qin

6. Han

7. Nothing Happens

8. Sui-Tang-Song

9. Mongols (Yuan)

10. Ming

11. Qing

12. Republics

13. Communism

Brief Chronology of English Monarchs (1500 - 1900) and Selected Years of Reign

     Henry VII (House of Tudor)

     Henry VIII (r.1509 - 1547)

     (Edward VI and Lady Jane Grey)

     Mary

     Elizabeth I (r.1558 - 1603)

     James I (House of Stuart)

     Charles I

    *English Civil War* & *Cromwell's Commonwealth* & *Restoration*

     Charles II (r.1660 - 1685)

     James II

     *Glorious Revolution* & *English Bill of Rights*

     William and Mary (r.1689 - 1702)

     (Anne)

     George I (Hannover)

     George II

     George III (r.1760 - 1820)

     (George IV and William IV)

     Victoria (r.1837 - 1901)

source: Britannia