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Aug 3, 1492
Columbus sails to Americas
Columbus sailed west from Spain wanting to sail to India but landed in America. He made his first voyage with 90 men. -
Jan 1, 1502
The Beginning of Slavery
European colonists needed cheap labor so they used enslaved Africans on plantations and farms. -
Jan 8, 1502
Atlantic Slave Trade
The Atlantic Slave Trade was the buying, selling, and transporting of Africans for work in the Americas. When it ended in the 1600's, 9.5 million Africans had been imported to the Americas -
Apr 13, 1521
Cortes Conquers Aztecs
This win was huge for the European settlers. The Aztec empire streched acrossed the Valley of Mexico. -
Apr 17, 1543
Copernicus presents the Helocentric Theory
He stated that the Sun was the center of the universe not the Earth like most people believed. -
Jan 1, 1562
The French Wars of Religion
The Huguenots were French Protestants influenced by John Calvin. They were opposed by the ultra-Catholics and the battle lasted for about 30 years ending in 1598 -
The Stuarts and Divine Right
Queen Elizabeth died in 1603, which ended the Tudor dynasty. The next line of rulers is known as The Stuarts. James I, Elizabeth's cousin, was King of Scotland who had an idea called Divine Right. -
English settle Jamestown
Jamestown was the first successful English settlement in North America. -
Civil war and Commonwealth
The supporters if the king were the Cavaliers, also called Royalists. Cromwell was put in charge; he kicked his opponents out of Parliament, had Charles I executed and declared England a commonwealth. -
Louis XIV of France begins his Reign
Louis began his personal rule of France in 1661 after the his chief minister, the Italian Cardinal Mazarin, died. -
Glorious Revolution in England
The Glorious Revolution, was also called the Revolution of 1688. The Revolution permanently ended any chance of Catholicism becoming re-established in England. -
Peter the Great of Russia Begins his Reign
He wanted to modernize Russia. -
The Invention of the Guillotine
This was used to behead people in France until 1806. It was used because there was no pain involved. -
French Revolution Begins
A period of major change in the French government and society and had a huge imapct on France and the rest of Europe. -
Napoleon conquers most of Europe
Over a little more than a decade, he started to control most or all of the western and central Europe.
