History By Josh2811 Period: 1299 to 1922 Ottoman Empire 1433 China Leaves Indian Ocean Trade 1440 Printing Press Period: 1450 to 1650 Renaissance Europe 1469 Sikhism Begins 1492 End of Reconquista Period: 1492 to 1504 Columbus' Voyages 1498 Vasco Da Gama Sails India Period: 1501 to 1736 Safavid Empire Period: 1520 to 1566 Reign of Suleiman 1521 Cortez Conquered the Aztecs 1526 Slave Trade Established in the Americas Period: 1526 to 1858 Mughal Empire 1534 England Leaves Catholic Church 1536 John Calvin in Geneva 1543 Copernicus Publishes Heliocentric Universe Period: 1545 to 1563 Council of Trent Period: 1556 to 1605 Akbar's Reign Period: 1562 to 1598 French Religious Civil Wars 1571 Battle of Lepanto 1571 Spanish Colonization of Manila 1582 Mateo Ricci in China 1588 Spanish Armada 1598 Edict of Nantes 1602 Dutch East India Company 1607 Jamestown Colony Period: 1618 to 1648 Thirty Years War 1622 Taj Mahal Built 1642 English Civil War Period: 1643 to 1715 Reign of Louis XIV Period: 1644 to 1911 Qing Empire 1648 Treaty of Westphalia 1649 Execution of Charles I 1652 Cape-town Colony Period: 1682 to 1725 Reign of Peter the Great 1688 Glorious Revolution 1689 Treaty of Nerchinsk Period: 1701 to 1714 War of Spanish Succession 1744 Wahabbi Islam in Arabia