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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 |