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Period: Jan 1, 1096 to Jan 1, 1291
Crusades are fought
The Crusades fight started as a pilgrimage, ended as a miltary expedition. Many of the nations traveled by sea. -
Jan 1, 1300
Renaissance begins
The Renaissance, meaning re-birth is a was for new art and literature to be brought into the world. Also bringing new culture to Europe. -
Jan 1, 1337
100 Years War begins
100 years war is a long conflict that pitted the kings and kingdoms. The 100 years war ended in1453. -
Jan 1, 1347
Black Death begins in Europe
Black death arrived in Europe in 1347 by sea. People would get black boils that had blood and puss coming out. There were also other symptoms of the Black Death. -
Period: Jan 1, 1368 to
Ming Dynasty in China
During the Ming Dynasty there was flooding through the Yellow River and a bubonic plague and other natural disasters. Around 10 million people died. -
Period: Jan 1, 1405 to Jan 1, 1433
Voyages of Zheng He
He had made 7 voyages in this time with over 1,000 soldiers and crew to India and Africa. The purpose of his voyages was to establish trade and diplomatic relations between China and nations in the South East. -
Jan 1, 1431
Joan of Arc burned at the stake
Joan was 19 years old when she was burnt at stake in Rounen, she had passed away from smoke inhalation. Her organs survived the fire so they had a third burning to destroy the body. -
Jan 1, 1453
Ottomans conquer Constantinople
21 year old took the name of "the conqueror" after he takes the Eastern Roman Empire. -
Jan 1, 1455
Johannes Gutenburg - printing press
The printing press was a device that was used to evenly spread ink on medium sized paper or cloth. It was typically used for texts. -
Jan 1, 1492
Jews, gypsies & moors expelled from Spain
People from Valencia, Murcia, Jaén and Córdoba, had been captured. New subjects of the Crown were to be allowed to save their mosques and religious institutions, to keep the use of their language and to abide by their own laws and customs. -
Jan 1, 1492
1st voyage of Columbus
Christopher convinced the King and Queen of Spain to finace his voyage. He had 3 ships, the Pinta, the Niña, and the Santa María. -
Jan 1, 1498
Da Gama lands in India
Da Gama was the first European to reach India. He travled there from Portugal. -
Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
Slave trade across Atlantic
The slave trade took place across the Atlantic ocean. Most slaves were West Africans. -
Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Safavid Empire
The Safavid's were native Iranian dynasty from Azarbaijan. They esatblished Shi'a Islam as Iran's official religion. -
Jan 1, 1502
Naming of the "New World"
America was named in honor of Amerigo Vespucci, for his discovery of the mainland of the New World. -
Period: Jan 1, 1503 to Jan 1, 1506
Da Vinci paints the "Mona Lisa"
Leonardo's 3 great portraits of women all have a strange air of wistfulness. He was working on it for approximately four years and keeping it himself for some years after -
Jan 1, 1508
Michelangelo begins painting Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo was a Italian painter, sculptor, architech, poet, and engineer. It took him 3 years to finish painting. -
Jan 1, 1517
Martin Luther posts 95 Theses
Luther condemned the excesses and corruption of the Roman Catholic Churchf or the forgiveness of sins. -
Jan 1, 1519
Magellan starts his "around the world" trip
He wished to lead a voyage that sailed around the world. He started off on that voyage, but passed away before he finished the voyage. He served as a junior sailor onboard ships sailing to India. -
Jan 1, 1526
Mughal Empire begins
Indias Mughal Empire ruled the subcontinent from 1526 to the beginning of the British Raj in 1858. -
Jan 1, 1534
Henry VIII founds Anglican Church
The name "Anglican" means "of England", but they exist worlwide. It began by Pope Gregory the Great sent St. Augustine to Britain to bring a more disciplined Apostolic succession to the Celtic Christians. -
Jan 1, 1536
Pizarro invades the Inca Empire
When Pizarro invaded the Inca Empire stretched from what is now southern Columbia all the way to Central Chile. -
Jan 1, 1543
Copernicus publishes heliocentric theory
It positioned the sun near the center of the universe, motionless, with Earth and the other planets rotating around it in paths by epicycles and at speeds. -
Period: Jan 1, 1545 to Jan 1, 1563
Council of Trent
The council of Trent was held in Trento and Bologna, northern Italy, and was one of the Roman Catholic Church's most important ecumenical councils. -
Period: Jan 1, 1556 to
Phillip II rules Spain
He became King of Spain , which was also called the Golden Age in January 1556. His reign saw the economic decline of Spain bank ruptcy and a disastrous decayed from 1588 to 1598. -
Jan 1, 1558
Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England
Elizabeth became known as the "Virgin Queen" for her reluctance to endanger her authority through marriage, coincided with the flowering of the English Renaissance, associated with such renowned author. -
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Age of Enlightenment
Europe had dwelled in the dim glow of the Middle Ages when suddenly the lights began to come on in mens minds and human kind moved forward. -
Jamestown, colony in Virginia, founded
Jamestown was the first settlement in the Virginia Colony , served as capital of Virginia until 1699. The expedition to discover Jamestown consisted of three ships, Susan Constant, Godspeed, and the Discovery. -
Louis XIV becomes King of France
Louis XIV lasted 72 years. In that In that time he transformed the monarchy. Towards the end France was weakend from lenghthy wars. -
Qing Dynasty in China begins
Founded in 1644 and collapsed in 1912 it replaced the Ming Dynasty, which was the last Chinese dynasty to be ruled by the Han Chinese. -
Thomas Hobbes writes Leviathan
When he wrote his book he was living in Paris to avoid persucution. He feared that the forces of the parliament could put him on trial because of his royalist convictions. -
Oliver Cromwell rules England
Oliver Cromwell was born on 25 April 1599, in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. He began to make his name as a Puritan when, in 1640, he was elected to represent Cambridge, 1st in the Short Parliament . -
Peter I (the great) becomes Czar
As a young man, he went to Europe in 1697–98 to study new developments in technology. He was born on May 30 1672, He was named Peter Alexowitz, meaning 'Peter the son of Alexis'. -
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Catherine the Great rules Russia
Catharine the Great wasnt her real name , her real name is Marfa Skavronskaya. She took control of Russia when her husband Peter passed away. -
U.S. Constitution is ratified
After ratification in 11 states, in 1789 its elected officers of government assembled in New York City replacing the Articles Of Confederation Government. -
French Revoulution begins
The Estates began their meeting at Versailles on May 5, 1789 and quickly entered into a power struggle. Louis attempted to shut down the National Assembly, but on June 20 its members declared that they would not disband until they had written a new constitution for France. -
Reign of Terror begins
The Reign of Terror began after the death of Louis XVI in 1793. The first victim was Marie Antoinette she had been imprisoned with her children after she was separated from Louis. -
Napoleon becomes Emperor
He took power in a coup d'état in 1799 and put himself as First Consul. He fought a series of wars like the Napoleonic Wars that involved complex coalitions for and against him. -
Napoleon defeated @ Waterloo
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Tokugawa Shogunate ends
Tokugawa Ieyasu’s dynasty of shoguns presided over 250 years of peace in Japan. When the Tokugawa shogunate growing increasingly weak by the mid-19th century, 2 powerful clans joined forces in early 1868 to seize power as part of an “imperial restoration” for Emperor Meiji
