World History Timeline Project

By jwag12
  • Jan 1, 1428

    the triple alliance is formed

  • Mar 6, 1521

    Cortez conquers the Aztecs

  • Spanish Armada is defeated by the British

  • The Edict of Nantes is decreed

  • TOkugawa Ieyasu becomes ruler of Japan

  • DOn Quixote "de la Mancha" is published

  • Thomas Hobbes publishes Leviathan

  • Newton publishes "Treatise on the Law of Gravity"

  • Montesquieu publishes "On the Spirit of Laws"

  • Adam Smith publishes "The Wealth of Nations"

  • french king louis XVI is executed

  • Robespierre initiates the Reign of Terror

  • British Parliament passes the factory act

  • Napoleon crowns himself emperor

  • Haiti wins freedom from France

  • Napoleon is defeated in the Battle of Waterloo

  • James Watt builds first steam engine

  • Karl Marx publishes the "Communist Manifesto"

  • Tukolor Kingdom arises in West africa

  • The Crimean War begins

  • The Sepoy Mutiny Begins

  • The British government establish the Raj in India

  • Russia frees the serfs

  • Meiji era begins a period of modernization to Japan

  • The Suez Canal is Completed

  • Mustafa Kemal makes Turkey a republic

  • Peter the Great becomes Russian Czar

  • The Maxim gun is invented

  • Berlin Conference divides Africa among European nations

  • The Zulu Nation falls to British Control

  • Queen Liliuokalani is removed as Hawaiian monarch

  • Boer War begins in South Africa

  • The triple Entente is finalized

  • Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated

  • Battle of Verdun begins

  • CZAR Nicholas II abdicates the throne in Russia

  • Communists seize power during the Russian Revolution

  • Outbreak of the SPanish FLu

  • Treaty of Versailles is signed

  • Mussolini takes controlnof Italy

  • Russia and several self-governing republics become the USSR

  • The Great Depression begins

  • Gandhi organizes the Salt March

  • Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany

  • Mao begins the long March

  • Stalin launches the Great Ourge

  • The Rape of Nanking

  • Germany invades Poland beginning World War II

  • Germany Invades USSA

  • D-Day Invasion

  • Japan Surrenders to US ending WWII

  • India Gains independence From Britain

  • South Africa establishes the apartheid system

  • Israel beomes a State

  • Korean War begins

  • Pakistan becomes a nation

  • Castro becomes communist dictator of Cuba

  • Mobuto seizes power in Zaire

  • Yasir Arafrat becomes chairman of the PLO

  • Vietnam War ends

  • The Taliban takes control of Afghanistan

  • Islamic Revolutionaries seize tje U.S. embassy in Iran

  • U.S. expels Iraq from Kuwait in the Persian Gulf Wat

  • The Intifada begins

  • China orders crackdown of student protestors in Tiananmen Square

  • The Soviet Union collapsed

  • NATO begins bombing campaign against Yugoslavia