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Hi, polyglots.
When you decide to pick up the history of a region, you are facing a lot of events and figures. Here is a list of the most significant of them.
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China[edit | edit source]
period | time span | event | figure | technology | artwork |
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Yellow River civilisation | c. 7500 BC – c. 1400 BC | ||||
Yangtze River civilisation | c. 7000 BC – c. 1600 BC | ||||
Liáo River civilisation | c. 7000 BC – c. 500 BC | ||||
Xià dynasty | c. 2070 BC – c. 1600 BC | ||||
Shāng dynasty | c. 1600 BC – c. 1046 BC | ||||
Zhōu dynasty: Western Zhōu | 1046 BC – 771 BC | ||||
Spring and Autumn
(Zhōu dynasty: Eastern Zhōu) |
c. 770 BC – c. 476 BC
(771 BC – 256 BC) |
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Warring States
(Zhōu dynasty: Eastern Zhōu) |
475 BC – 221 BC
(771 BC – 256 BC) |
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Qín dynasty | 221 BC – 207 BC | ||||
Hàn dynasty: Western Hàn | 206 BC – 9 | ||||
Xīn dynasty | 9 – 23 | ||||
Hàn dynasty: Eastern Hàn | 25 – 220 | ||||
Three Kingdoms | 220 – 280 | ||||
Jìn dynasty: Western Jìn | 266 – 316 | ||||
Jìn dynasty: Eastern Jìn | 317 – 420 | ||||
Sixteen Kingdoms | 304 – 439 | ||||
Northern and Southern dynasties | 420 – 589 | ||||
Suí dynasty | 581 – 618 | ||||
Táng dynasty | 618 – 907 | ||||
Wǔ Zhōu | 690 – 705 | ||||
Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms | 907 – 979 | ||||
Liáo dynasty | 916 – 1125 | ||||
Sòng dynasty: Northern Sòng | 960 – 1127 | ||||
Sòng dynasty: Southern Sòng | 1127 – 1279 | ||||
Western Xià | 1038 – 1227 | ||||
Jīn dynasty | 1115 – 1234 | ||||
Yuán dynasty | 1271 – 1368 | ||||
Míng dynasty | 1368 – 1644 | ||||
Qīng dynasty | 1644 – 1912 | ||||
Republic of China | 1912 – | ||||
People's Republic of China | 1949 – |
Egypt[edit | edit source]
period | time span | event | figure | technology | artwork |
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Predynastic Period | c. 6000 BC – c. 3000 BC | ||||
Early Dynastic Period | 3150 BC – 2686 BC | ||||
Old Kingdom | 2686 BC – 2181 BC | ||||
First Intermediate Period | 2181 BC – 2055 BC | ||||
Middle Kingdom | 2055 BC – 1650 BC | ||||
Second Intermediate Period | 1650 BC – 1550 BC | ||||
New Kingdom | 1550 BC – 1069 BC | ||||
Third Intermediate Period | 1069 BC – 664 BC | ||||
Late Period | 664 BC – 332 BC | ||||
Argead dynasty | 332 BC – 310 BC | ||||
Ptolemaic dynasties | 310 BC – 30 BC | ||||
Roman rule in Egypt | 30 BC – 641 | ||||
Sasanian rule in Egypt | 619 – 629 | ||||
Rashidun Caliphate | 641 – 661 | ||||
Umayyad Caliphate | 661 – 750 | ||||
Abbasid Caliphate | 750 – 935 | ||||
Tulunid dynasty | 868 – 905 | ||||
Ikhshidid dynasty | 935 – 969 | ||||
Fatimid dynasty | 969– 1171 | ||||
Ayyubid dynasty | 1171 – 1250 | ||||
Mamluk dynasty | 1250 – 1517 | ||||
Ottoman rule in Egypt | 1517 – 1867 | ||||
French campaign in Egypt | 1798 – 1801 | ||||
Muhammad Ali dynasty | 1805 – 1953 | ||||
Khedivate of Egypt | 1867 – 1914 | ||||
British rule in Egypt | 1882 – 1922 | ||||
Sultanate of Egypt | 1914 – 1922 | ||||
Kingdom of Egypt | 1922 – 1953 | ||||
Republic of Egypt | 1953 – |
Greece[edit | edit source]
period | time span | event | figure | technology | artwork |
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Pelasgians | c. 7000 BC – c. 3200 BC | ||||
Helladic civilisation | c. 3200 BC – c. 1050 BC | ||||
Cycladic civilisation | c. 3100 BC – c. 1000 BC | ||||
Minoan civilisation | c. 3100 BC – c. 1100 BC | ||||
Mycenaean civilisation | c. 1750 BC – c. 1050 BC | ||||
Greek Dark Ages | c. 1200 BC – c. 800 BC | ||||
Archaic Greece | c. 800 BC – 480 BC | ||||
Classical Greece | 510 BC – 323 BC | ||||
Hellenistic Greece | 323 BC – 31 BC | ||||
Roman rule in Greece | 146 BC – 330 | ||||
Byzantine Greece | 330 – 1460 | ||||
Kingdom of Candia | 1205 – 1667 | ||||
Venetian rule in the Ionian Islands | 1363 – 1797 | ||||
Ottoman rule in Greece | 1371 – 1912 | ||||
Republic of the Seven Islands | 1800 – 1807 | ||||
Greek War of Independence | 1821 – 1829 | ||||
First Hellenic Republic | 1822 – 1832 | ||||
Kingdom of Greece | 1832 – 1924 | ||||
Second Hellenic Republic | 1924 – 1935 | ||||
4th of August Regime | 1936 – 1941 | ||||
Occupation of Greece by the Axis | 1941 – 1944 | ||||
Greek Civil War | 1946 – 1949 | ||||
Greek junta | 1967 – 1974 | ||||
Third Hellenic Republic | 1974 – |
India[edit | edit source]
period | time span | event | figure | technology | artwork |
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Indus Valley civilisation | c. 3300 BC – c. 1700 BC | ||||
Cemetery H Culture | c. 1700 BC – c. 1500 BC | ||||
Vedic period | c. 1500 BC – c. 500 BC | ||||
Mahājanapadas | c. 600 BC – c. 345 BC | ||||
Magadha: Haryanka dynasty | 544 BC – 413 BC | ||||
Magadha: Shaishunaga dynasty | 413 BC – 345 BC | ||||
Magadha: Nanda dynasty | 345 BC – 322 BC | ||||
Magadha: Maurya dynasty | 322 BC – 184 BC | ||||
Magadha: Shunga dynasty | 187 BC – 73 BC | ||||
Magadha: Kanva dynasty | 75 BC – 28 BC | ||||
Chola dynasty | c. 4th century BC – 1279 | ||||
Pandyan dynasty | 400 BC – 1618 | ||||
Satavahana dynasty | c. 30 BC – c. 220 | ||||
Kushan Empire | 30 – 375 | ||||
Gupta Empire | c. 240 – c. 550 | ||||
Chalukya dynasty | c. 500 – c. 647 | ||||
Pushyabhuti dynasty | c. 606 – c. 647 | ||||
Karkota dynasty | 625 – 855 | ||||
Tripartite Struggle | c. 760 – c. 973 | ||||
Western Chalukya Empire | 973 – 1184 | ||||
Delhi Sultanate | 1206 – 1526 | ||||
Vijayanagara Empire | 1336 – 1646 | ||||
Bengal Sultanate | 1342 – 1576 | ||||
Mughal dynasty | 1526 – 1857 | ||||
Sur Empire | 1538 – 1555 | ||||
Maratha Confederacy | 1674 – 1818 | ||||
Company rule in India | 1757 – 1858 | ||||
Kingdom of Mysore | 1760 – 1799 | ||||
Sikh Empire | 1799 – 1849 | ||||
The Great Rebellion | 1857 – 1858 | ||||
British Raj | 1858 – 1947 | ||||
Union of India | 1947 – 1950 | ||||
Republic of India | 1950 – |
Japan[edit | edit source]
period | time span | event | figure | technology | artwork |
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Jōmon period | c. 14000 BC – c. 1000 BC | ||||
Yayoi period | c. 1000 BC – c. 300 | ||||
Kofun period | c. 300 – 538 | ||||
Asuka period | 538 – 710 | ||||
Nara period | 710 – 794 | ||||
Heian period | 794 – 1185 | ||||
Kamakura period | 1185 – 1333 | ||||
Nanboku-chō period
(Muromachi period) |
1336 – 1392
(1336 – 1573) |
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Sengoku period
(Muromachi period) |
1467 – 1573
(1336 – 1573) |
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Azuchi–Momoyama period | 1573 – 1603 | ||||
Edo period | 1603 – 1868 | ||||
Meiji period | 1868 – 1912 | ||||
Taishō period | 1912 – 1926 | ||||
Shōwa period | 1926 – 1989 | ||||
Heisei period | 1989 – 2019 | ||||
Reiwa period | 2019 – |
Mesopotamia[edit | edit source]
period | time span | event | figure | technology | artwork |
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Jemdet Nasr period | c. 3100 BC – c. 2900 BC | ||||
Early Dynastic period | c. 2900 BC – c. 2350 BC | ||||
Akkadian Empire | c. 2334 BC – c. 2154 BC | ||||
Third Dynasty of Ur | c. 2112 BC – c. 2004 BC | ||||
Isin-Larsa period | c. 2025 BC – c. 1763 BC | ||||
First Babylonian Empire | c. 1894 BC – c. 1595 BC | ||||
Hittite Empire | c. 1650 BC – c. 1180 BC | ||||
Kingdom of Mitanni | c. 1600 BC – c. 1260 BC | ||||
Kassite Empire | c. 1531 BC – c. 1155 BC | ||||
Neo-Assyrian Empire | 911 BC – 609 BC | ||||
Chaldean Empire | 626 BC–539 BC |