Timeline: World History | Timetoast

1500 BCE

Hinduism
483 BCE

Buddhism
Jan 1, 622

Islam

Hijra of Muhammed
Islamic calendar year 0
Period: Jan 1, 650 to Dec 30, 750

Umayyad Empire

Islam becomes 1st global religion
Islam spreads from France to India
Period: Jan 1, 1200 to Dec 25, 1450

Mongol Period
Period: Jan 1, 1453 to Dec 25, 1919

Ottoman Empire
May 9, 1857

Sepoy Rebellion

First war for independence
Period: Nov 24, 1884 to Jan 25, 1885

Berlin Confrence
Jan 1, 1911

Last Chinese Dynasty
Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918

World War 1
Mar 8, 1917

Russian Revolution
Period: Jul 29, 1937 to Sep 2, 1945

World War 2
Period: Jan 1, 1945 to Dec 25, 1989

Cold War
Aug 1, 1947

Independence of India

Creation of Pakistan
Jan 1, 1948

Creation of Israel

Nakba - "the catastrophe"
Oct 1, 1949

Mao and Communism

People's Republic of China created
China becomes communist
Period: Jan 1, 1966 to Dec 25, 1976

China's Cultural Revolution

Chinese holocaust
Jan 1, 1967

6 Day War

West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights, Sinai (given back to Egypt 1979)
Jan 1, 1979

Khomeini

Start of large scale fundamentalism
Jan 1, 1994

1st time black South Africans vote