APWH Units 3 + 4 Timeline By SlipyDuck 1281 Foundation of the Ottoman Empire 1368 Establishment of the Ming Dynasty 1413 China's Great Expeditions (Zheng He) 1450 Invention of the Gutenberg Printing Press Period: 1450 to 1550 Italian Renaissance 1452 Birth of Da Vinci 1453 Ottoman Empire Conquers Constantinople 1475 Birth of Michelangelo 1492 Columbus' Expedition 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas 1500 Scientific Revolution (approx.) Period: 1500 to 1700 Commercial Revolution 1502 Start of the English Slave Trade 1513 Machiavelli Publishes the Prince 1517 Publishing of the 95 Theses 1519 Magellan Circumnavigates the Globe 1521 Cortes Conquers the Aztec Empire 1522 Suleiman the Magnificent Takes Power 1526 Pizarro Conquers the Incan Empire 1542 Akbar the Great Takes Power 1546 Jesuits Arrive in China 1547 Ivan IV Takes Power 1564 Birth of Galileo 1571 The Battle of Lepanto 1588 Defeat of the Spanish Armada 1602 Establishment of the Dutch East Indies Company 1603 Time of Troubles 1603 Tokugawa Shogunate Begins Period: 1618 to 1648 Thirty Years' War 1639 Japanese Isolation 1643 Louis XIV Takes Power 1643 Birth of Isaac Newton 1644 Establishment of the Qing Dynasty 1648 Major Janissary Recruitment 1652 Establishment of a Colony on the Cape of Good Hope 1661 Kangxi Takes Power 1680 Enlightenment Begins (approx) 1683 Ottoman Empire Sieges Vienna 1688 The Glorious Revolution (Bloodless Revolution) 1689 Peter the Great Takes Power 1701 War of Spanish Succession 1736 Fall of the Safavid Empire Period: 1756 to 1763 Seven Years' War 1762 Catherine the Great Takes Power 1776 Wealth of Nations Published 1800 Mfecane Begins 1830 Great Trek Begins