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WHH Final Timeline

By riley.smith
  • Period: 1600 BCE to 1406 BCE

    Shang State

  • Period: 1045 BCE to 256 BCE

    Zhou Dynasty

  • Period: 771 BCE to 256 BCE

    Warring States period

    takes place during Eastern Zhou rule
  • Period: 400 BCE to 200 BCE

    "Barbarian" Invasions of Roman Empire

    The Celts raided Italy during the fourth-second centuries BCE.
  • Period: 340 BCE to 265 BCE

    Roman state expansion through Italian Peninsula

  • Period: 264 BCE to 241 BCE

    First Punic War

  • Period: 247 BCE to 224

    Height of Parthian Dynasty

  • Period: 221 BCE to 207 BCE

    Qin Empire of Shi Huangdi

  • Period: 220 BCE to 206

    Han Empire in China

  • Period: 218 BCE to 201 BCE

    Second Punic War

  • Period: 149 BCE to 146 BCE

    Third Punic War

  • Period: 100 BCE to 44 BCE

    Lifetime of Julius Caesar

  • 80 BCE

    Carthage is founded

  • Period: 50 BCE to 45 BCE

    Beginning of Roman Republic

  • Period: 27 BCE to 14 BCE

    Rule of Augustus (Octavian)

  • 165

    Start of Antonine Plague

  • Period: 224 to 651

    Sassanid Dynasty

  • Period: 306 to 337

    Reign of Constantine

  • 325

    Nicene Creed

    Emperor Constantine legalizes Christianity in Roman Empire
  • 476

    End of Western Roman Empire

  • 541

    Outbreak of Justinian Plague

  • Period: 570 to 632

    Life of Muhammad

  • Period: 581 to 618

    Sui Dynasty in China

  • Period: 618 to 907

    Tang Dynasty in China

  • Period: 632 to 661

    Arab conquests of the Byzantine Empire

    Arab armies conquer much of the Byzantine Empire, but the empire survives.
  • Period: 661 to 750

    Umayyad Caliphate

  • Period: 676 to 892

    Silla Dynasty in Korea

  • Period: 701 to 800

    Rise of Roman Catholic Church

    Catholic Church based in Rome begins converting much of northern Europe in the 8th century CE.
  • Period: 750 to 843

    Rise and division of Carolingian rule

  • Period: 750 to 1258

    Abbasid Caliphate

    The caliphate declined when it fragmented in the 13th century.
  • Period: 750 to 1258

    Abbasid Caliphate

  • 755

    An Lushan Rebellion

    An attack on the Tang Dynasty that forced them to enlist Central Asian help, losing their control over all of Central Asia and causing an emergence of xenophobia in China.
  • Period: 794 to 1185

    Heian Japan

  • Period: 800 to 1050

    Viking raids

    height of Viking pillaging, conquering, and expansion
  • Period: 802 to 1431

    Khmer Empire in SE Asia

  • Period: 929 to 1031

    Córdoba Caliphate

  • Period: 960 to 1279

    Song Dynasty in China

  • 1000

    Turkish invasions

    Turkish migrants and armies spread into the heartlands of the Islamic world.
  • Period: 1096 to 1231

    Crusades

    Christian military conquests that came in waves—their main goal was to take the Holy Land (Jerusalem) from Muslim control.
  • Period: 1200 to 1368

    Mongol Yuan Dynasty

  • 1320

    Black Death begins in China

  • 1347

    Black Death reaches Italian port cities

  • 1453

    Byzantine Empire falls