History of the West in the Premodern World By historyclass12 May 2, 1025 Seljuk Turks enter Persia May 2, 1070 Seljuk Turks defeat Byzantines and conquer Holy Lnad May 2, 1085 Spanish Christians reconquer Iberia May 2, 1096 First Crusade May 2, 1149 Second Crusade May 2, 1192 Thrid Crusade May 2, 1194 Seljuk Empire falls apart May 2, 1204 Fourth Crusade May 2, 1206 1206-1260: Mongols conquer Asia May 2, 1221 Blah May 2, 1337 Hundred Years War begins May 2, 1400 Great Western Schism divides Western Church May 2, 1400 1368-1644 Ming dyansty in China May 2, 1440 West Africans begin selling slaves to Portuguese May 2, 1453 Constantinople falls to Mehmed the Conqueror; end of Byzantine Empire May 2, 1453 Fall of Constantinople, end of Hudred Years War May 2, 1494 Treaty dof Tordesillas May 2, 1517 Luther's Ninety-Five These initiate Reformation May 2, 1524 Council of the Indies May 2, 1526 Mughal Empire beings in India May 2, 1533 Church of England May 2, 1556 Rule of Akbar in Mughal India May 2, 1570 1562-1594: Wars of Religion in France May 2, 1570 Unification of Japan by Oda Nobunaga and Hideyoshi May 2, 1595 Japanese invasions of Korea May 2, 1618 Thirty Years War begins May 2, 1639 Eviction of Westerners from Japan May 2, 1648 Peace of Westphalia ends Thirty Years War May 2, 1700 1700's are the height of the slave trade May 2, 1700 1603-1868 Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan May 2, 1747 Collapse of Safavid Iran May 2, 1760 1756-1763: Seven Years War