Age of Exploration

By cassie.beeman
  • Period: Jul 30, 1300 to

    Age of Exploration

  • Prince Henry of Portugal is born
    Mar 4, 1394

    Prince Henry of Portugal is born

  • Jul 17, 1402

    Yonglo becomes Ming Emperor

  • Nov 21, 1405

    Zheng He captains his first voyage

  • Feb 27, 1448

    Bartolomeu Dias reached Cape of Good Hope

  • Nov 25, 1491

    Ferdinand & Isabella end war with Muslims

  • Oct 12, 1492

    Christopher Columbus spots land in North America

  • Apr 27, 1494

    Spain & Portugal agree to Treaty of Tordesillas

  • May 27, 1497

    Amerigo Vespucci charts new world coast

  • Vasco da Gama
    May 20, 1498

    Vasco da Gama

  • Nicolaus Copernicus begins studying planetary movement
    Sep 25, 1500

    Nicolaus Copernicus begins studying planetary movement

  • Apr 24, 1519

    H. Cortez lands on Mexico coast

  • Nov 16, 1532

    Fransico Pizzaro meets Atahualpa

  • Ivan the terrible becomes ruler
    Dec 3, 1533

    Ivan the terrible becomes ruler

  • Jun 27, 1541

    Jacques Cartier claims land in Canada

  • May 22, 1556

    Philip II inherited Spain, the Netherlands & the American colonies

  • Nov 16, 1581

    Ivan the Terrble kills his son

  • English East India Company is founded

  • Johannes Kepler mathmatically proves Copernicus & Brahe

    Johannes Kepler mathmatically proves Copernicus & Brahe

  • Dutch East India Company is founded

  • Henry Hudson is last seen

  • Thirty Years' War

  • Cardinal Richelieu became the ruler of France

  • Charles I took the throne

    He took the throne when his father James I died.
  • Rene Descartes lays out his scientific method Discourse on Method

    Rene Descartes lays out his scientific method Discourse on Method

  • English Civil war

  • Louis XIV became ruler of France

  • Gabriel Fahrenheit makes the first mercury-in-glass thermometer

    Gabriel Fahrenheit makes the first mercury-in-glass thermometer

  • Oliver Cromwell became generral of the Puritans

    Oliver Cromwell became generral of the Puritans

  • New Netherlands becomes New York

  • Thomas Hobbes outlines the social contract in Leviathan

    Thomas Hobbes outlines the social contract in Leviathan

  • Habeas Corpus

    Habeas Corpus

    Habeas Corpus gave every prisoner the right to obtain a document that the the be brought to justice before a judge.

  • La Salle claim Mississippi river for Spain

  • Isaac Newton published his laws of gravity in Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

    Isaac Newton published his laws of gravity in Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

  • Glorious Revolution

    Glorious Revolution

  • John Locke justifies rebellion in Two Treatises on Government

    John Locke justifies rebellion in Two Treatises on Government

  • Peter the Great beomes ruler

    Peter the Great beomes ruler

  • War of the Spanish Succession

    War of the Spanish Succession

  • Catherine the Great puts down the serf Rebellion

    Catherine the Great puts down the serf Rebellion

  • Fredrick the Great begins his reign in Prussia

    Fredrick the Great begins his reign in Prussia

  • Maria Theresa becomes first woman ruler

    Maria Theresa becomes first woman ruler

  • Baron Von Montesquieu purposed sepration of power in On the Spirit of Laws

    Baron Von Montesquieu purposed sepration of power in On the Spirit of Laws

  • Denis Diderot publishes first volumes of his encyclopedia

    Denis Diderot publishes first volumes of his encyclopedia

    if he never published it then we would never be able to find we need that we can't find on the internet.
  • Seven Years War Begins

    Seven Years War Begins

  • Gearge III becomes the King of Great Britain

    Gearge III becomes the King of Great Britain

  • Cesare Baccaria writes against torture in On Crimes & Punishment

    Cesare Baccaria writes against torture in On Crimes & Punishment

  • Boston Tea Party

    Boston Tea Party

  • Declaration of Independence is signed

    Declaration of Independence is signed

    We wouldn't have any feedom without it.
  • Joseph Ii anolishes serfdom in Austria

    Joseph Ii anolishes serfdom in Austria

  • Delegates at the Constitutional Convention sign the Constitution

    Delegates at the Constitutional Convention sign the Constitution

    We wouldn't have the laws we have today if they hadn't signed it.
  • Mozart first performs Don Giiovanni

    Mozart first performs Don Giiovanni

    We wouldn't be able hear today.
  • First slave revolts in Hispaniola

    First slave revolts in Hispaniola

  • Emilie du Chatelet translates Newton's worrks into French

    Emilie du Chatelet translates Newton's worrks into French

  • Beethoven dies

    Beethoven dies

    He wrote a lot og good symphonies.