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50 Important Events in World History
This page is part of a publication called Number One ESL Discussion Book & Reference Guide.
| Rise of The Roman Empire | began in 27 BCE |
| Early Christian Church | until about 325 |
| Fall of the (Western) Roman Empire | 455 until 476 |
| Birth and Spread of Islam | early 7th century |
| Empire of Kublai Khan | late 13th and 14th centuries |
| Rise of The Ottoman Empire | late 13th century |
| The Black Death | 1346-1353 |
| Renaissance in Europe | 14th to 17th centuries |
| Age of Exploration | late 15th to early 17th centuries |
| Spanish Conquest of the Americas | late 15th to early 16th centuries |
| The Reformation in England | 16th century |
| Protestant Reformation | 16th and 17th centuries |
| Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan | 1603-1868 |
| Age of Enlightenment | late 17th and 18th centuries |
| Seven Years’ War | 1756-1763 |
| American Revolution and War of Independence | 1775-1783 |
| French Revolution | 1789-1799 |
| Latin American Independence Movements | early 19th century |
| Conquests of Napoleon Bonaparte | 1799-1815 |
| Congress of Vienna | 1814-1815 |
| Opium Wars | 1839-1860 |
| Crimean War | 1853-1856 |
| American Civil War | 1861-1865 |
| Meiji Restoration in Japan | 1868 |
| Abolition of Slavery in the Western Hemisphere | starting early 19th century |
| Industrial Revolution | middle 18th to middle 19th centuries |
| Unification of Italy | completed in 1871 |
| Unification of Germany | 1866-1871 |
| Scramble for Africa | late 19th century |
| British Empire | started 17th century and lasted to middle 20th century |
| The Spanish-American War | 1898 |
| Russo-Japanese War | 1904-1905 |
| Chinese Revolution | 1911 |
| First World War | 1914-1918 |
| Russian Revolution | 1917 |
| Chinese Civil War | 1927-1949 |
| Emancipation of Women in the West | early and middle 20th century |
| Great Depression | 1929-1939 |
| Second World War | 1939-1945 |
| Cold War | 1945-1991 |
| Independence of Former Colonies | 1940s to 1970s |
| The Partition of India | 1947 |
| The Partition of Palestine | 1947 |
| Korean War | 1950-1953 |
| The Civil Rights Movement in the United States | 1950s to 1960s |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | 1962 |
| The Vietnam War | 1955-1975 |
| Fall of the Berlin Wall | 1989 |
| Collapse of the USSR | process ended 1991 |
| Information Age | started middle 20th century |