Unit 3 Timeline Project

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
05/01/1420	Henry the Navigator	Around this time Henry's expeditions started out. Henry the Navigator was born March 4th, 1392 and died 13 November, 1460 and was prince of the Kingdom of Portugal and help support, fund and develop European exploration and futhered oceanic trade with other continents. He aslo helped develop the carvel, a ship which could sail faster and further than current ships of his time.
04/25/1492	Columbian Exchange	Was a dramatically widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations, diseases and ideas between Eastern and Western hemispheres. Christopher Columbus' first voyage launched the era of contact. Explorers returned to Europe with maize, potatoes, and tomatoes.
05/01/1492	Columbus	On this date Columbus set out from Spain on three ships, the Santa Maria, Pinta, and Nina; after a 5 week voyage at around 2 a.m on the morning of October 12 he spotted land. And landed on land and named it San Salvador, then explored the Bahamas. Colombus would head on 3 more voyages after this.
05/01/1519	New World colonies	After the discovery of the new world by Colombus in 1492, the spanish founded the first European settlement in the Pacific coast of central america and named it Panama city August 5, 1519. After this the flood gates of colonization from all of Europe began intill the 18th century where independence movements began and the ultimate destruction of colonies by the 19th century
04/19/1789	Declaration of Rights of Man	Statement of fundamental political rights adopted by the French National Assembly at the beginning of the French Revolution.
04/19/1789	Storming of the Bastille	The fortress and prision in PAirs known as the Bastille represented royal authority.
04/18/1815	Waterloo	A battle fought in present-day Belgium. Napoleon and his Imperial French army are defeated by the Seventh Coalition, an Anglo-Allied army under Duke Wellington and Prussia's Blucher. The three day battle was fought on the place called Lion's Mound. The defeat put in end to Napoleon's rule as Emperor.
Timespan Dates:	Timespan Title:	Timespan Description:
04/18/1450 to 04/18/1750	Unit 3
04/25/1460 to 04/25/1524	Vasco da Gama	Was a Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful in the Age of Discovery and commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India. And for a short time he was Viceroy of Portuguese India. Da Gama on his return ton Portugal ignored sailing with the monsoon winds which killed much of his crew.
04/25/1480 to 04/25/1521	Ferdinand Magellan	Was a Portuguese explorer, served King Charles I of Spain in the search of a route to 'Spice Island' (Maluku islands in Indonesia). First expediton to sail from Atlantic Ocean into Pacific Ocean. He was killed by the Lapu-Lapu(Visayan natives) in the Philipinnes. Elcano succedded Magellan's voyages,
04/25/1485 to 04/25/1547	Hernan Cortes	Was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainlan Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile. He went on to Hispaniola and later Cuba, where he received an encominda. Awarded Marques del Valle de Oaxaca while viceroy was given to Antonio de Mendoza.
04/25/1496 to 04/25/1541	Francisco Pizarro	Was a Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan Empire, and founder of Lima. Pizarro confronted Punian natives leaving 400 hundred Puians dead, and only 3 Spaniards dead. Soon after, Hernando de Soto another conquistador joined him on the expedition. Atahualpa refuse Pizarro prensence he had some 80,000 men to 200 Spanish causing battle of Cajamarca Atahualalpa was convicted of killing kis brother and plotting againsy Pizarro.He then later invaded Cuzco in 1533
04/19/1501 to 04/19/1736	Safavid Empire	A significant ruling dynasty of Iran, under Muslim rule they established Shi'a Islam as the religion. The Safavids established control over ll Iran and reasserted the Iranian idenity of the region, becoming first native dynasty since Sassanid Empire to make the iranian state unified. Legacy-the revival of Persia as an ecomic stronghold. And a state bureaucracy based on "checks and balances".
04/20/1517 to 04/20/1648	Protestant Reformation	Was the European Chritstian reform movement that established Protestantism as a constituent branch of Christianity. Led by Martin Luther, and John Calvin. Catholics responded witha counter reformation, led by Jeusits. Most of north led protestiant views the south stayed catholic. Largest denominations were Anglican ( England)
04/18/1526 to 04/18/1530	Babur	Was a military adventurer from Central Asia. He rose to power in Kabul (Afghanistan), built an army and defeated Lodi Afghan Empire, and laid basis for Mughal Empire. He was decandant of Timur through his father, and Genghis Khan through his mother. Expansion of Persian Cultural influence in India.
04/18/1526 to 04/18/1858	Mughal Empire	An imperial power in the Indian Subcontinent. Mughal Emperors were descendants of Timurids (from Turco-Mongol dynasty) Highly centralized and characterized as the expansion of Persian Culture. It declined rapidly weakened by wars and new rule and finally British colonialism. The Taj Mahal built in this time by Shah Jahan.
04/18/1552 to 04/18/1610	Matteo Ricci	Was an Italian Jesuit preist, his title was Servant of God. He was one of the founding figures of the Jesuit China Mission. He introduced to the Chinese western;science, mathematics, astronomy, and visual arts. At one time most valued and trusted advisors of imperial goverement.
04/25/1564 to 04/25/1642	Galileo	An Italian physicist, mathmatician,astronomer and philosopher. Achievements included improvements in telescope, and supported Copernicanism. He was also known for Heliocentrism,Dynamics, Kinematics. Father of modern astronomy.
04/25/1580 to 04/25/1820	Triangle Trade	The model and historical term the way the regions of America, Europe, and Africa traded. From the Americas' sugar, tobacco and cotton were traded to Europe. Textiles, rum, and manufactured goods to Africa from Europe. And from Africa, slaves to Americas.
04/18/1600 to 04/18/1868	Tokugawa Shogunate	Was a feudal regime of Japan established by the man Tokugawa leyasu and ruled by shoguns of the Tokugawa family. Shogun meaning commander of force, militrary force or army. Was called the Edo period, of capital city Edo, now Tokyo. After them civil war broke out and the Meiji Restoration happened.
04/25/1618 to 04/25/1648	30 Years War	The war was fought primarily in what is now Germany. No cingle cause can accurately be described as the main reason for the fighting. Initially, it was fought largely as a religious conflict between Protestants and Catholics, it was more a continuation of the Bourbon-Hbsburg rivalry. Impact, extensive destruction of regions. Ended by treaties of Osnabruck and Munster.
04/19/1644 to 04/19/1911	Qing Dynasty	Or also known as the Manchu, were invited by the Ming to squash peasant revolts, but instead they overthrew the Ming. Their interactions with the outside world are highly limited. Britain intrudeces Opium to China, China seizes control of opium in Canton-this cause the Opium Wars, and finally the treaty of Nanjing.
04/18/1682 to 04/18/1725	Peter the Great	Ruled Russia and later the Russian Empire, he carried out a policy of modernization. Heavily influenced by his european advisors and even when he travel. Peter reorganized the Russian army and dreamed of making it a maritime power. He founded the Russian Navy who he used to capture Azov from the Ottomans.
05/01/1687 to 05/01/1804	Enlightenment	This era also known as the age of reason, developed simultaneously in France, Great Britain, German, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal and the American Colonies, helped also spark and support the revolution in this period such as the American Revolution and other independnce movements. It basicly the questioning of all previous ideas and placed law and morals and science.
04/25/1754 to 04/25/1763	French-Indian War	War between Great Britain and France in North America. It erupted the Seven Years' War. The name refers to the two main enemies of the British colonists: royal French forces and various Native American forces allied with them.
04/18/1762 to 04/18/1796	Catherine the Great	Was Empress of Russia, under her direct control the Russian Empire expanded, improved its administration, and continuted to modernize along Western lines. She was victourious with foreign policy and rebellions. She also evolutionized the arts more than any soveriegn before or after her.
04/22/1774 to 04/22/1791	Louis XVI	King of France, he was suspended and arrested during the french revolution, was found quilty of treason and tranny, and was soon excuted by guillotine. At age 14 he married Archduchess Maria Antonia.
04/22/1774 to 04/22/1792	Marie Antoninette	Archduchess of Austria and Queen of France, spouse of Louis XVI. At the height of the French Revolution, Louis XVI was deposed and the monarchy abolished 92' the family was imprisioned, nine months after her husband execution she also was convicted of treason and killed.
05/01/1775 to 05/01/1783	American Revolution	The american revolution was a war of independce between the 13 colonies in america and Great Britian. With events leading to the actual start of the war; the first shots of the war were shot at the battle of lexington and concord, and th efrench entered the war for the americans after the battle of saratoga. And ended after the battle of Yorktown and the signing of the treaty of paris.
05/01/1789 to 05/01/1799	French Revolution	The french revolution was where France under went a great political change, and the old aristocraties fell and were replaced by a new goverment. Began in 1789 with the convocation of the Estates-General, the tennis court oath and the the assualt on the Bastille. Ended in 1799 when Napolean Bonaparte assumed control of the French empire.
04/18/1791 to 04/18/1804	Haitian Revolution	Was a period of conflict in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, the result was the ending of slavery there and the founding of the Haitian Republic. The Saint-Domingue Slave Revolt was successful in achieving permant independence. What also was established was the Declaration of Rights of Man, declaring all men free and equal.
04/19/1804 to 04/19/1815	Napoleon	Was a military and political leader during the later stages of the French Revolution. The Napoleonic Code was his legal reform, which forbaded privelages based on birth, allowed freedom of religion, and goverement jobs go to the most qualified. The invasion of Russia (defeat) in 1812 damaged his Grande Armee, the defeat against the Sixth Coaltion sent him to exile on Elba, then he was defeated for good in Waterloo.
04/18/1814 to 04/18/1815	Congress of Vienna	Was a confrence of European Ambassadors to settle the many issuses such as the French Revolutionary Wars, Napoleonic Wars, and the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire. The result was the redrawing of countries boundaries. The balance of Powers of Europe, and served as a model to League of Nations and UN.