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Period: Jan 1, 1096 to Jan 1, 1291
Crusades are fought
The Crusades were a series of military campaigns during the time of Medieval England against the Muslims of the Middle East. In 1076, the Muslims had captured Jerusalem - the most holy of holy places for Christians. -
Sep 25, 1300
Renaisssance Begins
Renassinace is the defintion "Reborn". The start of Humanism begin, which was the study of humans such as Poetry, grammar, history and moral history. -
Jan 1, 1337
100 Years War Begins
Edward claimed to be the rightfull owner of the France throne. This was called the edwardwrdin era. (1337-1360) -
Jan 1, 1347
Black Daeth Begins in Europe
The black plaque was brought by rats and fleas from the ships of forgien imports. This spred so fast because the 1347's were so filithy and they did not shower on a daily bases like us. -
Period: Oct 7, 1405 to Oct 7, 1453
Voyages of Zheng He
In 1403, the Yongle Emperor ordered the construction of a huge fleet of ships capable of travel around the Indian Ocean. -
Jan 1, 1431
Joan of Arc burned at the stake
Her death sentence was put upon her because she dressed up in boy's clothes. Many claimed she was studying witch craft, and hearing voices. -
Sep 25, 1453
Ottomans conquer Constantinople
21 year old took the name of " the conqueror" After he takes the Eastern Roman empire. -
Sep 25, 1455
Johannes Guttenberg- Printing Press
Gutenberg was located in a mining town in Gernerny, this is also the place where he barrowed the money to buy all the parts such as wood to build the printing press. -
Sep 25, 1492
1st Voyage of Columbus
The importance of this voyage was to find and shorter route to Asia. Asia had spieces and goods that Europr needed. Columbus conviced the king to give him three ships in search of this route. -
Oct 7, 1492
Jews, Gypsies & Moors expelled from Spain
It wasn't tell the 17th century that the moors became spains citizinen; becomeing full blown christans. -
Sep 25, 1498
Da Gama lands in India
Da Gama Sails from Lisbon, Spain to the cape of good hope. He aided the indian merchaunts that he met he there. -
Period: Sep 25, 1500 to
Slave trade across the Atlantic
The usage of the three legs was used to transport the slave. Mainly the Middle passge was the shorter voyage. -
Period: Sep 25, 1501 to
Safavid Empire
The Safavid Empire was a brother hood at first then grew into a miliatry group. The they battled Ottoman's and the was the decline of there Empire. -
Sep 25, 1502
Naming of the "new world"
Americgo Vespucci is credited for the discovery of Americas. This voyage was 1499-1500. -
Period: Jan 1, 1503 to Jan 1, 1504
Da Vinci paints the "Moan Lisa"
Supposedly this was because Mona Lisa was Leonardo's favourite painting and he was loathe to part with it, however it may also have been because the painting was unfinished. -
Sep 25, 1508
Michelangelo begins painting Sistine Chapel
Pope Julius II wanted Michelangelo to paint the Sistine Chapel. The ceilling was 40 meters long and by 13 meters wide. -
Aug 25, 1517
Martian Luther posts 95 Theses
Luther wrote the 95 these out of frustration. So after it was posted Pope Leo X Excomunicated Luther from the Cathloic Church. -
Sep 25, 1519
Magellan starts his "around the wold" trip
He set out in 1480-1521 from Spain to the Spiece Islands. He would never make it to the spice islands and while in his travels he lost many vessals. -
Oct 7, 1526
Mughal Empire begins
When Humayan died after a fall down the stairs, his 13-year-old son Akbar was crowned. Akbar defeated the remnants of the Pashtuns, and brought some previously unquelled Hindu regions under Timurid control. -
Sep 25, 1532
Pizarro invades th Inca Empire
On November 16, Atahuallpa arrived at the meeting place with an escort of several thousand men, all apparently unarmed. Pizarro sent out a priest to exhort the emperor to accept the sovereignty of Christianity and Emperor Charles V. -
Sep 25, 1534
Henry VII Founds Angiican Church
The Anglican Church evolved as part of the Roman church, but the Celtic influence was folded back into the Roman portion of the church in many ways, perhaps most notably by Charlemagne's tutor Aidan. -
Period: Sep 25, 1545 to Sep 25, 1563
Council of Trent
19th ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic church (1545–63), highly important for its sweeping decrees on self-reform and for its dogmatic definitions that clarified virtually every doctrine contested by the Protestants. -
Sep 25, 1553
Copernicus publishes heliocentric theory
He wanted to prove that earth is not the center of the earth and that there is not a center of the universe. -
Period: Sep 25, 1556 to
PhillipII rules Spain
During his reign the Spanish empire attained its greatest power, extent, and influence, though he failed to suppress the revolt of the Netherlands -
Sep 25, 1558
ElizabethI become Queen of England
On January 15, 1559, Elizabeth I was crowned Queen by Owen Oglethorpe, bishop of Carlisle at Westminster Abbey, a little less than two months after the death of Mary I. -
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Age of Enlightenment
17th-century Western Europe emphasizing reason and Individualism rather than tradition European politics, philosophy, science and communications were radically reoriented during the course of the 18th century as part of a movement referred to by its participants as the Age of Reason -
Jamestown, colony in Virginia,Founded
When the ipilgrams settled they plaqued the indains with new dieseses that the indians were not used to. This wiped out the population of the Indains and without the indains the pilgrams didn't know how to produce food on this new found land these were caled the "stareing times" -
Louis XIV Becomes King of France
Louis XIV managed to improve France's disorganized system of taxation and limit formerly haphazard borrowing practices. He also conveniently declared members of nobility exempt from paying taxes, causing them to become even more fiscally dependent on the crown. -
Qing Dynasty in China begins
In 1636 Huang Taiji of Manchuria in northeast China renames his region Qing. The word in Chinese means pure. -
Thomas Hobbes writes Leviathan
This book was written as a response to the English civil wars going on in the 1640's. This challenged peoples politics views and how they viewed soicety back then. -
Oliver Cromwell rules England
Cromwell then defeated the supporters of the king's son Charles II at Dunbar and Worcester , effectively ending the civil war. In 1653, frustrated with lack of progress, he dissolved the rump of the Long Parliament and, after the failure of his Puritan convention. -
Peter I ( The Great) Becomes Czar
The Streltsy gave the Miloslavkys family the military backing to succeed in this case and Peter and Ivan were accepted as joint rulers. -
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Catherine the Great rules Russia
When Empress Elizabeth died in January 1762, Russia was engaged in the Seven Years' War against Prussia. Peter, now emperor, pulled Russia out of the war and allied with Frederick II of Prussia. -
French Revolution Begins
National Assembly votes for Constitution, Declaration of the Rights of Man, a limited monarchy, and other reforms. -
U.S Constitution is ratified
Congress endorsed a plan to draft a new constitution, and on May 25, 1787, the Constitutional Convention convened at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. -
Regin of Terror begins
In the autumn of 1792, the revolutionary government, having written off the idea of a constitutional monarchy, set about electing a National Convention of delegates to oversee the country. -
Napoleon becomes Emperor
Napoleon was the first french an to become Emperor. He was crowned at 35 years-old. -
Napoleon defeated @ Waterloo
On June 18, 1815, the forces of the rest of Europe Britain, Prussia and the Russian Empire converged on Napolean, commanded by the United Kingdom's Duke of Wellington. -
Tokugawa Shogunate ends
In 1866, Shogun Tokugawa Iemochi suddenly died, and Tokugawa Yoshinobu reluctantly took power. He would be the fifteenth and last Tokugawa shogun.
