b2 world history 1096-1867

  • Sep 25, 1096

    crusades are fought

    crusades are fought
  • Oct 8, 1300

    renaissance begins

    renaissance begins
  • Sep 25, 1337

    100 years war begins

    100 years war begins
  • Oct 7, 1347

    black death begins in europe

    black death begins in europe
  • Oct 7, 1405

    voyages of zheng he

  • Sep 25, 1431

    joan of arc burned at the stake

  • Sep 28, 1453

    ottomans conquer conctantinople

  • Oct 8, 1455

    johannes publishes the printing press

  • Sep 28, 1491

    henry VIII founds anglican church

  • Sep 28, 1492

    columbus first voyage

  • Sep 28, 1497

    da gamalands of india

  • Oct 7, 1500

    slave trade across atlantic

  • Sep 28, 1501

    safavid empire

  • Sep 25, 1503

    da vinci paints the mona lisa

  • Sep 28, 1503

    naming the "new world"

  • Oct 7, 1507

    james, colony in virginia, founded

  • Oct 8, 1508

    michelangelo begins painting sistine chapel

  • Sep 25, 1517

    martin luther posts 95 theses

  • Oct 7, 1537

    pizarro invades the inca empire

  • Oct 7, 1543

    copernicus publishes heliocentric theory

  • Sep 28, 1545

    council of trent

  • Sep 28, 1556

    philip II rules spain

  • age of enlightenment

  • louis 14 becomes king of france

  • ming dynasty in china

  • qing dynasty in china begins

  • oliver cromwell rules england

  • peter I (the great) becomes czar

  • catherine the great rules russia

  • french revolution begans

  • napoleon becomes emperor

  • napoleon defeated at waterloo

  • tokugawa shogunate ends