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Sep 3, 1096
Crusades are faught
Muslims and Christians faught brutally for Jerusalem.
Lead to advances in trade and invention in the crossbow. 1291 -
Sep 24, 1300
Renaissance begins
the starvation and loss of life decreased population enough to allow farmers to produce more food than they needed. food prices declined allwoing people to use money for other things. -
Sep 12, 1337
100 Years war
fought about land in france. england tried to expand their land while france tried to tame them. -
Sep 26, 1339
Johannes Gutenberg
he casted metal plates into a wooden press.With moveable type, text could be quickly printed on both sides of a sheet of paper -
Sep 3, 1347
Black Death Begins in Europe
Fleas on rats on boat/ships carried the Black Daeth to Europe. -
Sep 4, 1368
Ming Dynasty in China
Zhu Yuanzhang overthrew the last Mongol emperor and took the name Hongwu. Which means "vastly martial," and gounded the Ming Dynasty.Ming means brilliant and Ming China lasted nearly 300 years until 1644. -
Sep 30, 1405
Voyages of Zheng He
Voyages till 1433 -
Sep 12, 1431
Joan of arc
burned at stake in 1431. cantinized in 1920 -
Oct 2, 1453
Ottomans conquer Constantinople
Ottomans led a major land and sea assaultagainst Constanantinople. .Using massive cannons, they battered the city walls. Constantine fell after 2 monnths of battle. -
Sep 12, 1492
nameing of the new world
discovery of the New World by Italian explorer Christopher Columbus. he was a map maker who believed that Europeans could reach the Orient more efficiently by ocean travel than across land. -
Oct 2, 1500
Copernicus publishes heliocentric theory
Copernicus theororizes that Earth revolves around the sun. Developed mathematical explanation of how the proccess worked. He was the first scientist to create a complete model of the solar system that combined physics, astronomy, and mathematics. -
Sep 2, 1508
Michelangelo begins painting the Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo painted Sistine Chapel in 1508 and completed it around 1512. Painting is the most famous of all his paintings. -
Sep 12, 1517
Martin Luther
Luther defiantly nailed a copy of his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle church -
Sep 10, 1519
Magellan starts journet "around the world"
His journey was long and difficult and some of his men mutinied or rebelled.After months at sea he landed at the phillipines and were killed by the natives. -
Oct 14, 1526
Mughal Empire begins
Babur (the tiger) had tried and failed to create an empire in centeral asia, Babur turned to India. By 1526 he had defeated the rulers of delhi and founded the Mughal Empire. -
Oct 2, 1545
Council of Trent
The council met on and off until 1563. Its delegatesexamined the criticism made by the protistants about Catholic teaching on important points. Above all, the Council of Trent rejected the Protistants' emphasis on self discipline and individual faith. -
Sep 4, 1556
Philip II rules Spain
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Oct 8, 1558
Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England
Queen Elizabeth was a protistant at heart. One of her first acts as queen was to draft a new supremecy act in 1559. She was threatened by Catholics who plotted to place Mary(Queen of scots) on the throne -
Slaves trade across Atlantic
Slaves strarted crossing the Atlantic sometime in the 16th century. Slaves used to cross in boats with 400 africans in each boat. 10-20% died during the crossing. -
Jamestown, colony in Virgina, founded
hoped to find gold and silver and possibly a river route to the Pacific.
Instead they found marshley ground and impure water. Some 80% died in the first winter in America. -
Oliver cromwell rules England
He led an army into battle to come out with a victory(1644). He made his own court. -
Louis XIV becomes king of France
was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of France and Navarre from 1643 until his death. -
Louis XIV becomes King of France
Know as the Sun King, he built the palace at Versailles as a means to consolidate absolute power.A series of warsdrained England of all their wealth at the end of his long reign. -
Quing Dynasty
From 1644 to 1911, the Qing Dynasty ruled over china and was the last dynasty in 3,500 years of imperial rule in China. Qing flourished under two outstanding emporers Kangxi and Qianlong. -
Thomas Hobbes writes the Leviathan
This writing was on the view of the American Government.The violence and upheaval of the English civil war persuaded him that people were selfish and greedy. -
Peter the Great
Became czar when he was a child, so his sister insisted on ruling in his place. At age 17 he removed his sister and took the rule for himself. and also this guy had a SICK mustache! -
Safavid Empire
The founder of this empire was a 14 year old boy named Esma'il. His father was a soldier and when he died Esma'il took up the sword. His fathers supporters, now following Esma'il, now set on a conquest in Persia. -
Catherine the Great rules over Russia
Czarina of Russia from 1762 to 1796. Ruling with absolute power, she introduced a number of reforms that extended Peter the Greats policy of "westernization." -
French revolution begins
Manufacturers were to slash employees wages in half. King was on top. -
U.S. Constitution is ratified
when the Constitutional Convention met for the first time with a quorum at the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation, and ended in the same year. -
reign of Terror begins
The reign of terror was basically exicutions constructed by rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, which led to mass exicutions. We are talking about tens of thousands exicuted. A lot by the Guillotine. -
Leonardo Da Vinci paints the "Mona lisa"
When leonardo da vinci painted this half portrait it was the most visited most talked about most sung about painting of its time. And still of this time it is talked emensly about. -
Napoleon becomes Emporer
he took power when the leaders becoming weak and ineffective because the fear of opposition. he had a transfer of power called coup d'etat. -
Napolean defeated @ Waterloo
Napolean had to fight the Belgiam, Dutch and, German. He was defeated, for he was no match for two armies.
