Conquest of the New World By rahi9507 Mar 13, 1440 Gutenberg Press Period: Mar 14, 1450 to Mar 14, 1700 Ottoman Empire Period: Mar 14, 1450 to Mar 14, 1644 Ming Dynasty Period: Mar 14, 1450 to Mar 14, 1750 Columbian Exchange Mar 13, 1453 Ottomans conquer Constantinople Period: Mar 14, 1481 to Mar 14, 1700 Spanish Inquisition Mar 13, 1490 First Globe Made Mar 13, 1492 Christopher Columbus arrives in the Americas Mar 13, 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas divides New World between Spain and Portugal Mar 13, 1497 Vasco de Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope Period: Mar 14, 1500 to Mar 14, 1600 "Little Ice Age" Mar 13, 1501 First Slaves arrive in Hispaniola Mar 13, 1501 Cortes takes Aztec city of Tenochtitlan Period: Mar 14, 1501 to Mar 14, 1542 Encomienda System Period: Mar 14, 1501 to Mar 14, 1736 Safavid Empire Mar 13, 1517 Martin Luther writes 95 Theses Mar 13, 1533 Capture of the Incan Emperor Atahuallpa Mar 13, 1533 Pizzaro conquers Inca Period: Mar 14, 1545 to Mar 14, 1563 Catholic Counter-Reformation Mar 13, 1564 Invention of Lead Pencil Mar 13, 1571 Battle of Lepanto (naval defeat of the Ottomans) Mar 13, 1588 British defeat Spanish Armada Mar 13, 1599 Triangle Trade Peak Period: Mar 14, 1600 to Mar 14, 1700 Scientific Revolution Period: Mar 14, 1600 to Mar 14, 1700 Tokugawa Shogunate Mar 13, 1607 Founding of Jamestown Period: Mar 14, 1612 to Mar 14, 1700 British East India Co. Period: Mar 14, 1618 to Mar 14, 1648 Thirty Years' War Mar 13, 1620 Founding of Plymouth Bay Mar 13, 1644 Invention of Barometer Period: Mar 14, 1644 to Mar 14, 1700 Qing Empire Mar 13, 1664 Dutch lose New York to English Period: Mar 14, 1682 to Mar 14, 1700 Peter the Great's Westernization of Russia Mar 13, 1690 Brazilian Gold Rush Mar 13, 1700 Advent of Mercantilism Mar 13, 1711 Invention of Piano Mar 13, 1714 Invention of Thermometer
