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Period: 1096 to 1291
Crusades are Fought
A series of religious wars between Christians and Muslims. Christians where trying to reclaim there holy land called Palistine. Unsuccessful crusade but it did expand trade routes. -
1300
Renaissance Begins
The word Renaissance means re-birth. One major thing they discovered was humanism. The birthplace of the Renaissance was in Italy "Italian Renaissance". -
1337
100 year war begins
A series of conflicts by the house of Plantagenet, the ruler of the Kingdom of England were against the French house of Valois. They fought over the right to rule over the Kingdom of France. Is the most notable conflicts of the middle ages. -
1347
Black Death Begins in Europe
The black death was a devastating global even, it killed nearly 1/3 of the population. IT came from 12 different ships that came back from the black sea. The rats were on these ships who carried the disease which had fleas and got everyone else sick. -
1357
Joan of Arc Burned at the Stake
Joan was captured at Compiegne by the Burgundain faction, a group of French nobles allied with the English. She was later handed over to the English and put on trial by the pro-English bishop Pierre Cauchon. She was declared guilty and was burned at stake on the 30th of May in 1431, dying at out about nineteen years of age. -
Period: 1405 to 1433
Zheng He's Voyages
Zeng He was a Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat, fleet admiral, and court eunuch during China's early Ming Dynasty. He was originally born as Ma He in a Muslim family. He later adopted the conferred surname Zheng from Emperor Yongle -
1439
Johannes Gutenberg printing press
He invented the movable printing press and also known for printing the bible where everyone could read it. It played a key role in the development of the Renaissance, Reformation, the Age of Enlightenment, and the scientific revolution and laid the material basis for the material basis for the modern knowledge-based economy. -
May 29, 1453
Fall of Constantinople
The Fall of Constantinople was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by an invading Ottoman army on the 29th of May in 1453. The capture of the city marked the end of the Byzantine empire, a continuation of the Roman Empire, an imperial state. The conquest of Constantinople also dealt a massive blow to Christendom, as the Muslims Ottoman armies thereafter were left unchecked to advance into Europe without an adversary to their rear. -
Nov 1, 1478
Start of the Spanish Inquisition
It was the intended to maintain Catholic orthodoxy in their kingdoms and to replace the Medieval Inquisition, which was under Papal control. It became the most substantive of the three different manifestations of the wider Catholic Inquisition along with the Roman Inquisition and Portuguese Inquisition. The " Spanish Inquisition" may be defined broadly, operating in Spain and in all Spanish colonies and territories, 150,000 were prosecuted 3,000 - 5,000 were executed. -
Period: 1492 to 1492
Columbian Exchange
The Columbian exchange, also known as the known as the Columbian interchange. The Columbian was wide spread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries. This was related to European colonization and trade following Christopher Columbus's 1492. -
Period: 1502 to 1580
Slave Trade
The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas.The slave trade used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage. They existed from the 16th to the 19th century. -
1503
Christopher Columbus Lands in the New World
Columbus completed four round-trip voyages between Spain and the Americas. Each voyage being sponsored by the Crown of Castle. On first voyage, he independently discovered the Americas and magnetic declination. -
1506
Mona Lisa Completed 1506
The Mona Lisa is half-length portrait painting by the artist Leonardo Da Vinci. The painting has been described as " the best known, the most visited,and the most written about". The painting is best known for as "the most parodied work of art in the word". -
1508
Michelangelo begins painting the Sistine Chapel
The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, is a cornerstone work of High Renaissance art. The ceiling is that of the Sistine Chapel and the large papal chapel built within the Vatican between 1477 and 1480. The Pope Sixtus IV is whom the chapel is named by. -
Period: 1509 to Jan 28, 1547
King Henry VIII reign
Henry was the King of England from 1509 until his death, he had 7 wives, and three children. He wanted to have his first wives marriage abolished so, he started his own church and abolished it himself. He greatly expanded the royal power during his reign. -
1513
"The Prince"
The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli.From correspondence a version appears to have been distrubuted in 1513. The language he used was Latin the book was originally called De Pincipatibus. -
Aug 23, 1514
Battle of Chaldiran
The Battle of Chaldiran took place on the 23rd of August in 1514. It ended with victory for the Ottoman Empire over the Safavid Empire. As a result, the Ottomans annexed Anatolia and northern Iraq from Safavid Iran. -
Aug 31, 1517
Martin Luther post 95 Theses
Acting on this belief, he wrote the "Disputation of the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences," and another thing he is know for is "The 95 Theses." The 95 Theses is a list of questions and propositions for debate about the catholic church. Something notable that Martin did was nail a copy of the 95 theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle church. -
Period: 1520 to 1566
Sultan Suleyman Reign
Under his administration, the Ottoman state ruled over 15 to 25 million people. While Sultan Suleyman was known as "the Magnificent" in the west, he was always Kanuni Suleyman or "The Lawgiver" to his own Ottoman subjects. Suleyman the Magnigicent was one of the most famous of the sultans, he ruled from 1520 to 1566. -
Aug 23, 1521
Cortez Defeats Aztecs
The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, or the Spanish-Aztec War, was the conquest of the Aztec empire. It was within the context of the Spanish colonization of the Americas. Was one of the most significant and complex events in the worlds history. -
1532
Pizarro defeats the Incas
In 1530, Pizarro returned to Panama. In 1531, he sailed down to Peru, landing art Tumbes. He led his army up the Andes Mountains and on November 15, 1532, reached the Inca town of Cajamarca, where Atahuallpa was enjoying the hot springs in preparation for his march on Cusco, which was his brother's kingdom. -
Period: 1545 to 1563
Counter Reformation
The Counter-Reformation, also called the Catholic Reformation or the Catholic Revival, was the period of the Catholic resurgence initiated in response to the Protestant Reformation. It began with the Council of Trent and ending at the close of the Thirty Years' war. Initiated to preserve the power, influence and material wealth enjoyed by the catholic church and to present a theological and material challenge to Reformation. -
Period: Sep 7, 1553 to
Queen Elizabeth's Reign
She was a Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1588 until her death on 24 March 1603. She is sometimes called the virgin queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess. Elizabeth was the last of the five monarchs of the house of Tudor. -
1555
Peace of Augsburg
It was a temporary settlement within the Holy Roman Empire of the religious conflict arising from the Reformation. Each prince was to determine whether Lutheranism or Roman Catholicism was to prevail in his lands. Dissenters were allowed to emigrate, and the free cities were obligated to allow both Catholics and Lutherans to practice their religions. -
Spanish Armada 1588
The Spanish Armada was a Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from a Coruna in late May of 1588. It was under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia, with the purpose of escorting an army from Flanders to invade England. The strategic aim was to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I and her expectation that this would put a stop to England interference in the Spanish Netherlands. -
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Era of the Samurai
The Samurai were the warriors of pre - modern japan. They later made up 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, but their main weapon and symbol was the sword. -
William Shakespeare's Death
The cause of Shakespeare's death is a mystery, but an entry in the diary of John Ward, the vicar of Holy Trinity Church in Stratford. Just like with his birthday, Shakespeare's exact date of death is a mystery.What was written on his grave was " good friend Jesus sake forbeare, to dig the dust enclosed here. Blessed be the man that spares these stones, and cursed be he that moves my bones." -
Taj Mahal Completed
This wonderful building was built by Mughal Eporer Shah Jahan in memory of his wife Mumtaz Mahah with constriction starting in 1632 ADZ and completeed in 1648 AD. Mosque, the guess house and the main gateway on the south and the outer courtyard. It cloisters were added subsequently and completed in 1653 AD. -
Edict of Nantes
Nantes, Edict of (1598) French royal decree establishing toleration for Huguenots (protestants). It granted freedom of worship and legal equality for Huguenots within limits, and ended the wars of Religion. The Edict was Edict by Luis XIV in 1685, causing many Huguenots to emigrate. -
Lord George McCartney Expelled
George MaCarthney, 1st Earl MaCartney, KB was a British statesman, colonial administrator and diplomat. He is often remembered for his observation following Britain's success in the Seven Year Wars. Another thing he is remembered for is subsequent territorial expansion at the Treaty of Paris that Britain now controlled" a vast Empire, on which the sun never sets. -
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Opium War
The Opium Wars were two wars in the mid-19th century involving China and the British. The war was over trade of opium and China's sovereignty. The clashes included the First Opium War and the Second Opium war.
