-
Period: Jan 1, 1096 to Jan 1, 1291
Crusades are fought
The Crusades were holy wars fought between Christians in Europe and Muslims in the Middle East between 1095 and 1291. the main goal of the Crusades was to take control of Jerusalem away from the Muslims, there were many reasons why European knights and others were willing to travel and fight a war in a foreign land. -
Jan 1, 1300
Renaissance begins
a time when art and many other things escalated and people began to take part in it more often. art was one of the biggest parts of the renaissance -
Jan 1, 1347
Black Death begins in Europe
-
Jan 1, 1347
100 year war begins
The Hundred Years' War was a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 pitting the House of Plantagenet, rulers of the Kingdom of England, against the House of Valois for control of the Kingdom of France. It started with an english families dynastic agreement -
Period: Jan 1, 1368 to
ming dynasty in china
-
Period: Jan 1, 1405 to Jan 1, 1433
Voyages of zheng he
-
Jan 1, 1431
Joan of Arc burned at the stake
-
Jan 1, 1453
Ottomans coquer Constantinople
-
Jan 1, 1455
Johannes Gutnberg invents printing press
-
Jan 1, 1492
1st Voyage of Columbus
-
Jan 1, 1492
Jews , gypsies, and moors expelled from spain
-
Jan 1, 1498
Da gama lands in india
-
Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
slave trade across atlantic
-
Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Safavid Empire
-
Jan 1, 1502
naming of the "New World"
-
Period: Jan 1, 1503 to Jan 1, 1506
Da Vinci paints the "Mona lisa"
-
Jan 1, 1508
michelangelo begins painting sistine chapel
-
Jan 1, 1517
martin lluther post 95 theses
-
Jan 1, 1519
magellan starts around the world trip
-
Jan 1, 1526
mughal empire begins
-
Jan 1, 1534
henry VIII founds angelican church
-
Jan 1, 1537
pizarro invades inca empire
-
Jan 1, 1543
copernicus publishes heliocentric theory
-
Period: Jan 1, 1545 to Jan 1, 1563
council of trent
-
Period: Jan 1, 1556 to
phillip II rules spain
-
Jan 1, 1558
elizabeth I becomes queen of england
-
Period: to
age of eenlightenment
-
jamestown colony in virginia founded
-
louis XIV becomes king of france
-
qing dynasty begins in china
-
thomas hobbes writes Leviathon
-
oliver cornwell rules england
-
Peter the great becomes Czar
-
Period: to
catherine the great rules russia
-
French revolution begins
-
US constitutuion ratified
-
Reign of terror begins
-
napoleon become emperor
-
Napoleon defeated at Waterloo
-
Tokugawa Shogunate ends
