World History Timeline By avabow1103 Period: 30,000 BCE to 3000 BCE Stone Age 4000 BCE Yellow River Valley Civilization 3966 BCE Creation 3600 BCE Nile River Valley Civilization settled. 3200 BCE Pharaoh (King) Menes 3150 BCE Ancient Egyptian civilization began in Africa 2910 BCE Noah 2600 BCE Mayans 2310 BCE The Flood, Tower of Babel, Sumerians, Egyptians 2018 BCE Abraham born Period: 2000 BCE to 1400 BCE Minoans 1990 BCE Pyramids first appear 1950 BCE Decline of the Sumerians 1918 BCE Isaac born Period: 1795 BCE to 1750 BCE Hammurabi reigned Babylon 1750 BCE Hammurabi code of law Period: 1700 BCE to 1000 BCE Bronze Age Period: 1600 BCE to 1200 BCE Mycenaeans Period: 1570 BCE to 1045 BCE Shang Dynasty 1200 BCE Trojan War Period: 1200 BCE to 700 BCE Dorians Period: 1200 BCE to 550 BCE Iron Age Period: 1200 BCE to 400 BCE Olmec Culture Period: 1200 BCE to 400 BCE Olmec Civilization 1046 BCE The Mandate of Heaven Period: 1000 BCE to 1800 Bantu Migrated 753 BCE Rome founded Period: 566 BCE to 480 BCE Siddhartha Gautama Period: 546 BCE to 479 BCE Persian War Period: 431 BCE to 404 BCE Second Peloponnesian War Period: 326 BCE to 184 BCE Mauryan Empire 6 Rome conquered Israel 30 Jesus was crucified 324 Constantine became Emperor of the Roman Empire Period: 330 to 1452 Byzantine Empire 337 Constantine's Death 455 Vandals sacked Rome 476 Fall of Rome's Empire 476 Fall of the Roman Empire Period: 476 to 1000 Medieval Era/Dark Ages Period: 500 to 1400 Western Europe Lingered in Medieval Ages 527 Justinian became emperor Period: 527 to 565 Justinian I ruling of Byzantine 570 Birth of Muhammad 600 Islam founded Period: 622 to 1258 Isamic Golden Age 988 Christianity reaches Russia 1096 First Crusade 1145 Second Crusade 1189 Third Crusade Period: 1300 to 1400 The Black Death 1337 Start of Hundred Years’ War between France and England 1345 Aztecs rise Period: 1371 to 1433 Zheng He 1375 Songhai Empire rise 1400 Renaissance began Period: 1400 to 1500 Age of Exploration 1438 Inca Empire Rise 1492 Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in search of India Period: 1500 to 1763 The Age of Absolute Monarchs 1517 Reformation began 1519 Aztecs Defeated 1600 China and Japan closed off trade to foreigners Period: 1600 to 1850 The Age of Enlightenment and the Age of Revolutions 1642 Beginning of the English Civil War Period: 1644 to 1911 Qing Dynasty Period: 1775 to 1783 American Revolution Period: 1789 to 1799 French Revolution Period: 1791 to 1804 Haitian Revolution 1800 Nationalism in Europe and Russia Period: 1808 to 1833 Latin American Revolution Period: 1839 to 1842 Opium War 1853 Matthew Perry sailed to Japan Period: 1856 to 1860 Opium War 1861 Cavour led Italy into independence 1866 Peace of Prague 1871 Germany became an independent country led by Bismarck Period: 1904 to 1905 Russo-Japanese War 1914 WW1 Began Period: 1914 to 1918 Trench Warfare 1917 Russian Revolution 1918 WW1 Ended Period: 1919 to 1939 Treaty of Versailles 1921 Adolf Hitler led the Nazi party 1929 Great Depression started 1931 Japan invaded Manchuria Period: 1936 to 1939 Spanish Civil War began Period: 1939 to 1945 WW2 1940 Chinese Communist Revolution Period: 1940 to 1950 India's Independence 1941 Pearl Harbor Raid Period: 1945 to 1989 Cold War 1948 Formation of Isreal 1950 Ghana’s Independence 1989 The Fall of the Berlin Wall 1991 The fall of USSR 1994 Genocide in Rwanda