-
-
Charlemagne was selected to become the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. I think he was elected but if he wasn't the first elected emperor was probably within this general time range.
-
The mexica people settled down in Tenochitlan and began their conquest of territory and people to sacrifece to their gods.
-
Ming Taizu took over China and began one of the longest dynasties in Chinese history where China expanded trade with the rest of the world and made cool looking vases.
-
The Portuguese start construction of their empire by capturing Cueta and other strongholds in Africa... don't know much else about this.
-
Zheng He went around the world telling everyone about how rich China was and saying how much bigger his boat was compared to the other people's boats. Then he had to stop because the other emperor died and his successor probably thought that the treasure fleet was a waste of money.
-
Pachacuti launches Inca conquests as the 9th leader out of Cuzco he conquered much of the west side of south america making roads from Cuzco to Chile.
-
The Ottoman empire with their cannons are able to take down the walls of Constantinople renaming the city Istanbul and destrying the last city of the Byzantine empire.
-
The long lasting conflict between England and France finally came to an end leaving both countries with a greater sense of national pride, giving France more money, and kinda starting the decline of feudalism.
-
Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain finally pushed all the muslims out of the iberian peninsula by capturing the city of Granada, the last muslim stronghold.
-
Akbar became emperor of the Mughal empire and began his rule where he took over most of the indian subcontinent and generally was pretty powerful.
-
The Romanov dynasty starts the last outwardly imperial dynasty of Russia with Mikhail Romanov taking power after the death of Ivan the terrible.