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Aug 26, 1096
Crusades Are Fought
It was a bloody war between Muslams and christians fighting between holy land and religion. -
Oct 14, 1200
Safavid Empire
After the disastrous invasion of Mongols, in the 1200s, migrated Turks and Mongolian tribes adopted the Persian customs and even language. -
Sep 24, 1271
Ming Dynasty in China
In the late period of the Yuan Dynasty (1271 - 1368), a peasant's uprising - Hongjinjun (army with red scarf in the head) uprising broke out against the Mongols. -
Sep 2, 1300
Renaissance Begins
Toward the end of the Middle Ages, a great flowering of culture called theRenaissance began in Italy and spread throughout Europe. -
Sep 2, 1337
100 years war begins
The Hundred Years War was a long struggle between England and France over succession to the French throne. It lasted from 1337 to 1453, war over land -
Aug 26, 1347
Black Death Begins in Europe
Blakc death was a plauge that swept across and killed millions of people almost 2/3 of the population. It began in 1347 and ended in 1350 after killing millions. -
Oct 8, 1405
Voyages of Zheng He
The ships of Zheng's armada were as astonishing as its reach. Some accounts claim that the great baochuan, or treasure ships, had nine masts on 400-foot-long decks. The largest wooden ships ever built, -
May 30, 1431
Joan of Arc burned at the stake
Said that she could recive visions. King Charles sent her to a relife mission and failed. She was burned after she was guilty after being handed to the english, she was burned on a stake. -
Sep 4, 1440
Johannes Gutenburg- Printing press
in 1440 that Johannes Gutenberg created his printing press, a hand press, in which ink was rolled over the raised surfaces of moveable hand-set block letters held within a wooden form and the form was then pressed against a sheet of paper. -
Oct 14, 1453
Ottomans conquer Constaninople
The capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Army, under the command Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II on 29th May 1453. -
Aug 3, 1492
1st voyage of columbus
Having convinced the King and Queen of Spain to finance his voyage, Christopher Columbus departed mainland Spain on August 3, 1492. He quickly made port in the Canary Islands for a final restocking and left there on September 6. He was in command of three ships: the Pinta, the Niña, and the Santa María. -
May 20, 1498
Da Gama lands in India
Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama becomes the first European to reach India via the Atlantic Ocean when he arrives at Calicut on the Malabar Coast. -
Sep 8, 1503
Da Vinci paints the "Mona Lisa"
Painting on a poplar wood panel by the Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer Leonardo da Vinci, probably the world’s most-famous painting. -
Aug 28, 1508
Michelangelo begins painting Sistine Chapel
It was requested that Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Julios was determined that Rome should be rebuilt and should look at its former glory. -
Sep 24, 1509
Henry VII founds Anglican Church
The churches of the Anglican Communion have their historical roots in the English Reformation, when King Henry VIII wished to obtain a divorce that the pope would not grant -
Sep 16, 1513
Naming the "new world"
In the year 1513, a group of men led by Vasco Núñez de Balboa marched across the Isthmus of Panama and discovered the Pacific Ocean. They had been looking for it—they knew it existed—and, familiar as they were with oceans, they had no difficulty in recognizing it when they saw it. On their way, however, they saw a good many things they had not been looking for and were not familiar with. When they returned to Spain to tell what they had seen, it was not a simple matter to find words for everythi -
Sep 8, 1514
Copernicus publishes helicontric theory
Copernicus proposed that the Sun, not the Earth, was the center of the Solar System. -
Sep 4, 1517
Martin Luther posts 95 theses
Martin Luther nails a piece of paper to it containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation. -
Sep 10, 1519
Magellan starts his "around the world" trip
Magellan's idea was to sail west to get to the East. Now, Columbus had had this in mind, but he never did it. -
Oct 8, 1526
Mughal Empire beings
Muslim dynasty of Turkic-Mongol origin that ruled most of northern India from the early 16th to the mid-18th century, after which it continued to exist as a considerably reduced and increasingly powerless entity until the mid-19th century. -
Sep 12, 1532
Pizarro invades the Inca Empire
168 Spanish soldiers under Francisco Pizarro and their native allies captured the Sapa Inca Atahualpa in the 1532 Battle of Cajamarca. -
Oct 8, 1545
Council of Trent
held between 1545 and 1563 in Trento and Bologna, northern Italy, was one of the Roman Catholic Church's most important ecumenical councils. Prompted by the Protestant Reformation, it has been described as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation. -
Sep 26, 1556
Phillip II rules spain
Philip II, king of the Spaniards (1556–98) and king of the Portuguese (as Philip I, 1580–98), champion of the Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation. -
Sep 24, 1559
Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England
Two months after the death of her half-sister, Queen Mary I of England, Elizabeth Tudor, the 25-year-old daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, is crowned Queen Elizabeth I at Westminster Abbey in London. -
Thomas Hobbes writes Leviathan
The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is best known for his political thought, and deservedly so. His vision of the world is strikingly original and still relevant to contemporary politics. -
Oliver Cromwell rules England
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. In the 1630s Cromwell experienced a religious crisis and became convinced that he would be guided to carry out God's purpose. -
Jamestown, colony in Virginia, founded
America’s first permanent English colony, in Virginia in 1607 – 13 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth in Massachusetts – sparked a series of cultural encounters that helped shape the nation and the world. -
Qing Dynasty in China begins
The Qing, or Manchu, dynasty, was the last Imperial dynasty of China. Once a very powerful and influential family, the Qing dynasty ruled for about 300 years. However, they failed because of internal corruption and the denial of changing times. -
Louis XIV becomes King of France
The reign of France’s Louis XIV (1638-1718), known as the Sun King, lasted for 72 years, longer than that of any other known European sovereign. In that time, he transformed the monarchy, ushered in a golden age of art and literature, presided over a dazzling royal court at Versailles, annexed key territories and established his country as the dominant European power. -
Peter I becomes Czar
He expanded the Tsardom into a huge empire that became a major European power. He was very interested in ship-building and maritime power. -
Catherine the Great rules Russia
n 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. -
French revolution begins
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. It had been 175 years since the last meeting of this deliberative body that included representatives of three Estates: the First comprised of the clergy, the Second comprised of the nobility and the Third comprised of the middle and lower classes. -
U.S Constitution is ratified
When a bill of rights was proposed in Congress in 1789, North Carolina ratified the Constitution. Finally, Rhode Island, which had rejected the Constitution in March 1788 by popular referendum, called a ratifying convention in 1790 as specified by the Constitutional Convention. -
Age of Enlightment
The Age of Enlightenment was a cultural movement of intellectuals beginning in late 17th-century Europe emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. -
Reign of Terror begins
The Terror was designed to fight the enemies of the revolution, to prevent counter-revolution from gaining ground. Most of the people rounded up were not aristocrats, but ordinary peopl -
Slave trade aross Antlantic
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade began around the mid-fifteenth century when Portuguese interests in Africa moved away from the fabled deposits of gold to a much more readily available commodity -- slaves. -
Tokugawa Shogunate ends
Japan in the mid-19th century was characterized as being feudal. It was of course feudalistic but there were also some more primitive tribalistic elements to Japanese society. -
Napoleon becomes Emperor
He took power in a coup d'état in 1799 and installed himself as First Consul. In 1804 he made himself emperor of the French people. -
Napoleon defeated @ Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo, which took place in Belgium on June 18, 1815, marked the final defeat of French military leader and emperor Napoleon Bonaparte who conquered much of continental Europe in the early 19th century. -
Jews,gypsies and moors expelled form Spain
many other cities, including Valencia, Murcia, Jaén and Córdoba, had been captured and it seemed that the end of Muslim Spain was imminent.
