History of the West in the Premodern World

  • 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

  • Japanese invasions of Korea

  • Thirty Years War begins

  • Eviction of Westerners from Japan

  • Peace of Westphalia ends Thirty Years War

  • 1700's are the height of the slave trade

  • 1603-1868 Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan

  • Collapse of Safavid Iran

  • 1756-1763: Seven Years War