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1096
crusades are fought
1096 - 1291 , A religious war between christians and muslims.
christians tried to reclame there holy land . did not go as planed , but extended trade routs. -
1334
Renaissance Begins
Learns about the arts , and starts to look at there own accomplishments . The renaissance Begins was inspired by the renaissance man . Its a movement thats began inFlorence in the late 13th century. -
1337
100 Years War
was a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453. The house of Plantagenet . rulers of the Kingdom of England, against the French House of Valois, over the right to rule the Kingdom of France. Each side drew many allies into the war. It was one of the most notable conflicts of the Middle Ages. -
1347
Black Death Begins In Europe
The Black Death was a devastating global epidemic of bubonic plague that struck Europe and Asia in the mid-1300s. The plague arrived in Europe in October 1347, when 12 ships from the Black Sea docked at the Sicilian port of Messina. People gathered on the docks were met with a horrifying surprise: Most sailors aboard the ships were dead, and those still alive were gravely ill and covered in black boils. -
1400
Johannes Gutenberg Printing press
Was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe with the printing press. His introduction of mechanical movable type printing to Europe started the Printing Revolution and is regarded as a milestone of the second millennium. It played a key role in the development of the Renaissance. -
Period: 1405 to 1433
Zenhn g heh voyages
Zenhng he was a Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat, fleet admiral, and court eunuch during China's early Ming dynasty.Zheng commanded expeditionary voyages to Southeast Asia, South Asia, Western Asia, and East Africa from 1405 to 1433. He was originally born as Ma He in a Muslim family. -
1421
Joan of Arc Bunred at the Stake
Joan of Arc Bunred at the Stake is nicknamed "The Maid of Orléans" is considered a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years' War. Also was canonized as a Roman Catholic saint. She was born to Jacques d'Arc and Isabelle Romée a peasant family. -
1453
Fall of the Constantsinople
Fall of the Constantsinople was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by an invading Ottoman army. They invaded the Ottoman army on may 1453.The capture of the city marked the end of the Byzantine Empire. -
1478
Start of the Spanish Inquisition
the Spanish Inquisition started on november 1st 1478 . It was disbanded in july 15 1834. It was intended to maintain Catholic orthodoxy in their kingdoms and to replace the Medieval Inquisition. -
1485
Cortez Defeats Aztecs
Hernan Cortés invaded Mexico in 1519 and conquered the Aztec Empire. Hernan Cortez was a spanish conquistador. He also helped colonize Cuba and became a governor of New Spain -
1492
Christopher Columbus Lands In the New World
Columbus left Spain in August 1492 with three ships.and after a stopover in the Canary Islands made landfall in the Americas on 12 October , witch we call columbus day .His landing place was an island in the Bahamas, known by its native inhabitants as Guanahani -
Period: 1492 to
Columbian Exchange
The Columbia Exchange is also known as the Columbian interchange.The exchange was the widespread of plants and animals ,culture, human populations and technology.Communicable diseases, were a byproduct of the Exchange. -
1503
Mona Lisa Completed 1506
Leonardo da Vinci is thought by some to have begun painting the Mona Lisa in Florence Italy. The Mona Lisa painting was made in 1503. The reason the painting is so famous is because he used a forgoten painting technique. -
1508
Michelangelo begins Painting the Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo painted the Sistine and he painted it on the ceiling.The Sistine is a cornerstone work of high Renaissance art. He started painting it between 1508-1512. -
Period: 1509 to 1547
King Henry Viii Reign
King Henry was King of England. He was the king from 1509 until his death. Henry was the second Tudor monarch, succeeding his father Henry VII. -
1514
Battle of Chaldiran
The Battle of Chaldiran took place on 23 August 1514.And it ended in 1588. It also ended with a decisive victory for the Ottoman Empire over the Safavid Empire. -
1517
Martin luther post 95 theses
Martin Luther wrote the Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences, its also known as the 95 theses. The 95 theses is a list of questions and for debate propositions . On October 31, 1517 Luther nailed a copy of his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle church. -
Period: 1520 to 1566
Sultan Suleyman Reign
Sultan Suleyman Reign is also commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in the West and Kanunî Sultan.Also in his realm, was the tenth and longest-reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1520 until his death in 1566. . The Ottoman state ruled over 15 to 25 million people. -
1531
Pizzaro Defeats Incas
In 1530, Pizarro returned to Panama. In 1531, he sailed back down to Peru, landing at Tumbes. He led his army up the Andes Mountains and on November 15, 1532, reached the Inca town of Cajamarca -
1531
The Prince
The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus. However, the printed version was not published until 1532 -
Period: 1533 to
Queen Elizabeth's Reign
Elizabeth I was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. she died on march 24 1603. Also sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor. -
Period: 1543 to 1563
Counter Reformation
The Counter Reformation is also called the Catholic Reformation.
The Counter Reformation was the period of Catholic resurgence initiated in response to the Protestant Reformation.the Counter-Reformation was a comprehensive effort composed of five major elements. -
1555
Peace of Augsburg
the Peace of Augsburg is a temporary settlement within the Holy Roman Empire of the religious conflict arising from the Reformation. It established the right of each Prince to decide on the nature of religions practice in his lands, cuius regio, cuius religio.Free cities and imperial cities were open to both Catholics and Lutherans. -
Spanish Armada 1588
A giant Spanish invasion fleet was completed by 1587. But Sir Francis Drake's daring raid on the Armada's supplies in the port of Cadiz delayed the Armada's departure until May 1588. Delayed by storms that temporarily forced it back to Spain. -
Period: to
Era of the Samurai
were the warriors of premodern Japan. They later made up the ruling military class that eventually became the highest ranking social caste of the Edo Period.Samurai employed a range of weapons such as bows and arrows, spears and guns. -
William Shakespears death
William Shakespear was a play writer . William Shakespear died april 23 1616 , He supposely died of drinking to hard , the next day he had a headache . He was later buried on april 25 -
Period: to
Slave Trade
The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people. Most of the african slaves went to America . The slave trade regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage, and existed from the 16th to the 19th centuries. -
Taj Mahel Completed
The Taj Mahel was built in the memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahal.The Taj Mahal was commissioned by Shah Jahan in 1631.Construction of the Taj Mahal began in 1632. -
Lord George McCartney Expelled
Lord George McCartney Expelled was a British statesman, colonial administrator and diplomat.He is often remembered for his observation following Britain's success in the Seven Years War and subsequent territorial expansion at the Treaty of Paris that Britain now controlled a vast Empire, on which the sun never sets. Macartney's delegation met with the Qianlong Emperor, who rejected all of the British requests. -
Period: to
Opium war
The Opium Wars were two wars in the mid-19th century involving China and the British Empire over the British trade of opium and China's sovereignty. The clashes included the First Opium War and also the second opium war .The wars forced china to trade with the other part of the world.
