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At least 10,000 Europeans joined the military mission to take the Holy Land from the Muslims who controlled it. The first Crusade lasted from 1096 to 1099.
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The Hundred Years of War was a long struggle between England & France over succession to the French throne. It lasted from 1337 to 1453.
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The plague that began in Asia, spread to different parts via trading ships. Rats on the ships carried the disease.
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In the late period of the Yuan Dynasty, a peasant's uprising - Hongjinjun uprising broke out against the Mongols. From 1360 to 1367, his army managed to eliminate the remaining separatist military forces.
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This new age would be considered the "rebirth" of learning and literature, art and culture. This time created a new & modern way of thinking.
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She was 19 years old when she was burned. She started having visions at 13 years old.
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Expanding European empires in the New World lacked one major resource -- a work force. In most cases the indigenous peoples had proved unreliable (most of them were dying from diseases brought over from Europe), and Europeans were unsuited to the climate and suffered under tropical diseases. Africans, on the other hand, were excellent workers.
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He left from mainland Spain on August 3rd, after much convincing, the King and Queen of Spain funded his voyage. He was in charge of three ships; the Pinta, Nina and Santa Maria.
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First Europen to reach India via the Indian Ocean. He died in 1524 in combat.
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The Gutenberg printing press developed from the technology of the screw-type wine presses of the Rhine Valley. He created his printing press, a hand press, which ink was rolled over the raised surfaces of moveable hand-set block letters held in a wooden form and the form was pressed against a sheet of paper.
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Leonardo Da Vinci started painting it in 1503 & finished it in 1506. He kept changing it so some say the finish date was 1507.
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It took him a bit over four years, He worked in buon fresco (a specific type of painting method). It took him so long because he suffered many setbacks such as; mold and miserable, damp weather that disallowed plaster curing.
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The 95 Theses were basically a piece of paper that Martin Luther nailed to the Castle Church doors, condemming the excesses and corruption of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Magellan was killed in April of 1521, in the Phillipines. They had already reached the eastern edge of the known world, but after his death, his men completed the voyage to Spain.
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168 Spanish soldier under Francisco Pizarro and their native allies captured the Sapa Inca Alahualpa in the 1532 Battle of Cajamarca.
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The heliocentric theory is an astronomical model that showed the sun at the center of the universe instead of the earth (which was the belief at the time).
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During his reign the Spanish empire attained its greatest power, extent, and influence, though he failed to suppress the revolt of the Netherlands (beginning in 1566) and lost the “Invincible Armada” in the attempted invasion of England (1588).
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Elizabeth I was Queen of England until her death in 1603. Childless Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty.
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In 1644 when peasant's uprising leader Li Zicheng ended Ming and set up a new regime in Beijing, the Qing army seduced a general named Wu Sangui to rebel against Li Zicheng. With Wu's help, the Qing army successfully captured Beijing and rooted their regime there.
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The Age of Enlightenment (or simply the Enlightenment or Age of Reason) was a cultural movement of intellectuals beginning in late 17th-century Western Europe emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. It spread across Europe and to the United States, continuing to the end of the 18th century.
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Oliver Cromwell was born on 25 April 1599 in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire into a family of minor gentry and studied at Cambridge University. He became member of parliament for Huntingdon in the parliament of 1628 - 1629.
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His rein lasted until the 8th of February, 1725. In November 1721, to celebrate the long-coveted conquest, Peter assumed the title of Emperor as Russia officially became the Russian Empire. The end of the Northern war left Peter free to resume a more active policy on the southeastern border. In 1722, he invaded Persian territory and a year later Persia ceded parts of the Caspian Sea to Russia.
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ntelligent, ruthless, sexually insatiable: she was the most powerful woman in the world, dragging Russia 'out of her medieval stupor and into the modern world'. In 1744, she arrived in Russia, as the Grand Duchess Catherine Alekseyevna, and married Peter, grandson of Peter the Great and heir to the throne. Russia at the time was ruled by Peter's mother, the empress Elizabeth. When Empress Elizabeth died Catherine claimed the throne.
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King Louis XVI needed money. His financial crisis forced the French monarch to reluctantly convene the Estates General in order to levy a new land tax that would hopefully solve his monetary woes. The tension increased, exacerbated by massive crop failures that led to a shortage of food. In Paris, mobs filled the city's streets. The fear spread that the king would retaliate with force. On July 14 the mob stormed the Bastille to obtain arms. The attack launched the nation down a terrbile path.
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In Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Napoleon I, the first Frenchman to hold the title of emperor in a thousand years. Pope Pius VII handed Napoleon the crown that the 35-year-old conqueror of Europe placed on his own head. The Corsican-born Napoleon, one of the greatest military strategists in history, rapidly rose in the ranks of the French Revolutionary Army during the late 1790s. By 1799, France was at war with most of Europe
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Belgium, a coalition of British, Dutch, Belgian, and German forces defeated the French army led by Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo led to his second and final fall from power, and ended more than two decades of wars across Europe that had begun with the French Revolution.
