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Two Timelines
of Important Events The first
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DATES
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DYNASTIES
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EVENTS
IN CHINESE HISTORY
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EVENTS
IN WORLD HISTORY
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| 1600 BC | Shang
Dynasty 1600 - 1027 BC |
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| 800 BC | Zhou
Dynasty 1027 - 256 BC |
Age
of Hebrew prophets ca 875 - 520 BC |
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| 700 BC | Spring and Autum Period 770 - 475 BC | First Olympic Games 776 BC, Founding of Rome 753 BC | |
| 600 BC | Lao-Tze 604 - 531 BC |
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| 500 BC | Confucius (Kung-Fu Tze) 551 - 479 BC; Feudalism begins to decline | Buddha 565 - 483 BC, Persian Empire 538 - 333 BC |
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| 400 BC | Warring
State Period 475 - 221 BC |
Construction
of Han Gou Canal 486 BC City of Chi Built on the site of modern Beijing,
Marquis Yi of Zeng 475 - 433 BC |
Socrates 470 - 483 BC, Parthenon built 447 - 432 BC, End of Athenian Empire 404 BC |
| 300 BC | Reign
of King Cuo of Zhongshan 320 - 308 BC, Book of I Ching |
Alexander
the Great conquers Egypt and western Asia 336 - 323 BC |
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| 200 BC | Qin
Dynasty 221 - 207 BC, Han Dynasty 206 BC - 220 AD, Western (Former) Han 206 BC - AD 9, Eastern (Later) Han AD 25 - 220 |
Reign
of Emperor Qinshihuang 246 - 210 BC, China Unified 221 BC, Great Wall begun 215 BC |
Hannibal
crosses the Alps 218 BC |
| 100 BC | Silk
Road opened 139 BC, Confucianism made official state ideology ca 100 BC, Book of Ritual ca 100 BC |
Venus
de Milo sculpted 140 BC, Assassination of Julius Caesar 44 BC, Reign of Cleopatra 47 - 30 BC, Augustus first Roman emperor 27 BC -AD 14 |
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| AD 1 | Xin AD 9 - 25 | Crucifixion of Jesus AD 33 | |
| AD 100 | Invention
of paper ca 100, Taoism becomes popular, Buddhism enters China from India ca 150, Chinese conquer Mongolia 121, Eunuchs gain power under Emperor Lang Ti 167 - 189 |
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| AD 200 | Three
Kingdoms 220-280, Jin Dynasty 265 - 420 |
Compass developed 271, Great Wall completed 214, Competing dynasties vie for control of China 220 - 589 | Sassinian Empire of Persia 226 |
| AD 300 | Northern
Dynasties 386 - 581 -- Northern Wei 386 - 534, Eastern Wei 534 - 550, Western Wei 535 - 556, Northern Qi 550 - 577, Northern Zhou 557 - 581 |
Constantinople becomes capital of Roman Empire 330 | |
| AD 400 | Southern
Dynsasties 420 - 589 -- Song 420 -479, Qi 479 - 502, Lian 502 - 557, Chen 557 - 589 |
Fall of Roman Empire 476 | |
| AD 500 | Sui Dynasty 581 - 618 | Sui Dynasty reunited empire 589 | Golden
age of Mayan civilization in America; in Arabia, Mohammed lives 570 - 632 |
| AD 600 | Tang Dynasty 618 - 906 | Tea first cultivated 600; porcelain developed, Construction of Grand Canal under Empeoro Yang Di 605 - 618, Reign of Empress Wu 690 - 705, Christianity introduced to China, Reign of Empress Wu Zetian 690 -705 | Kingdom of Ghana established ca 600, Rise of Arab Empire 635 - 715 |
| AD 700 | Lady
Yang Guifei 700 - 755, Great age of poetry during Tang: Li Po (705-762), Tu Fu (712-770), Rebellion led by General An Lushan 755 |
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| AD 800 | City of Chi renamed Yuchow under Tang Dynasty | Charlemagne crowned first Holy Roman Emperor 800 | |
| AD 900 | Five
Dynasties 907 - 960 -- Later Lian 907 - 923, Later Tang 923 - 936, Later
Jin 936 - 947, Later Han 947 - 950, Later Zhou 951 - 960; Liao Dynasty 907 - 1125; Northern Song Dynasty 960 - 1127 |
Dissolution of empire following fall of Tang 907, Song Dynasty reunites China 960; northern areas remain under foreign control, Liao dynasty rules Yuchow; rename capital Nanking | Inca Empire expands 990 |
| AD 1000 | Death of Princess Chenguo 1018 | Chinese invent gunpowder 1000, Norman conquest of England 1066, First Crusade begins 1096 | |
| AD 1100 | Jin Dynasty 1125 - 1234, Southern Song Dynasty 1127 - 1279 | Great age of figure and landscape painting during Southern Song, Nanking renamed Chung-tu (Central Capital) under Jin Dynasty 1153, Imperial palaces built at Chung-tu at site of Forbidden City 1179 | |
| AD 1200 | Yuan Dynasty (Mongol) 1271 - 1368 | Genghis
Khan founds Mongol Empire 1206, Genghis Khan captures Chung-tu 1215, Kublai Khan moves Mongol capital to Chung-tu; construction begun on new site, renamed Ta-tu 1264, all of China brought under Yuan (Mongol) rule 1277-1279 |
Magna Carta 1215, The Inquisition begins 1233, Marco Polo's journey to China 1271 - 1292, Spectacles invented 1290 |
| AD 1300 | Ming
Dynasty 1368 - 1644 Hungwu reign 1368- 1398, Jianwen reign 1398- 1402,
Yongle reign 1403- 1424, Hongxi reign 1425, Xuande reign 1426-1435, Zhengtong
reign 1436-1449, Jingtai reign 1450 - 1456, Tianshun reign 1457-1464, Chenghua reign 1465-1487, Hongzhi reign 1488- 1505, Zhengde reign 1506-1521, Jiajing reign 1522 - 1566, Longqing reign 1567-1572, Wanli reign 1572 - 1620, Tiachang reign 1620, Tianqi reign 1620 - 1627, Chongzhen reign 1628-1644 |
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| AD 1400 | Ta-tu renamed Peking under Ming Dynasty 1404, Construction of Forbidden City begun 1406, Ming capital moved to Peking, establishment of Forbidden City as new northern capital 1421 | Joan
of Arc 1412 - 1431, Wars of the Roses 1455 - 1485, Columbus discovers the New World 1492 |
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| AD 1500 | Reign of Nurhaci, unifier of Manchu tribes 1584 - 1626 | Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa 1503, Protestant Reformation inaugurated by Martin Luther 1517 | |
| AD 1600 | Qing
Dynasty 1644 - 1911 -Shunzhi reign 1644-1661, Kangxi reign 1662 - 1722,
Yongzheng reign 1723-1735, Qianlong reign 1735-1795, Jiaqing reign 1796 - 1820, Daoguang reign 1821-1850, Xianfeng reign 1851-1861, Tongzhi reign 1862 - 1874, Guangxu reign 1875-1908, Xuantong reign 1908-1911 |
Xiaojing
posthumously made Empress and interred at Dingling 1620, Nurhaci begins construction of Shenyang Palace 1625, Manchus conquer Peking and establish Qing Dynasty 1644 |
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| AD 1700 | Lord Macartney leads first British Embassy to China 1763 | Reign
of Catherine the Great 1762-1796, United States Declaration of Independence 1776, French Revolution 1789 |
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| AD 1800 | Britain defeats China in Opium War 1842 | English
defeat Napoleon at Waterloo 1815, Reign of Queen Victoria 1837-1901, Marx writes Communist Manifesto 1848 |
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| AD 1900 | Boxer
Rebellion; allied armies occupy Peking; court flees 1900, Two-year-old
Puyi named emperor 1908, Chinese Revolution: fall of Chinese Emperors: Dr Sun Yat-sen proclaims Chinese Republic 1911; People's Republic of China 1949 |
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| AD 1997 |
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