John Overing Early Modern Period 1450 CE - 1750 CE

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  • Period: Mar 12, 1394 to Mar 12, 1460

    Life of Prince Henry the Navigator

  • Mar 12, 1415

    Portuguese capture Ceuta (now Morocco)

    begins European expansion
  • Mar 12, 1433

    China ends its great expeditions

  • Mar 12, 1434

    Portugal extends expeditions along west African coast

  • Mar 12, 1441

    First shipment of African slaves brought directly from Africa to Portugal

  • Period: Mar 12, 1450 to Mar 12, 1519

    Life of Leonardo da Vinci

  • Period: Mar 12, 1450 to

    Northern Renaissance

  • Mar 12, 1453

    Ottoman capture of Constantinople

  • Mar 12, 1455

    First European printing press; Mainz, Germany

  • Mar 12, 1462

    Russia (mostly) freed from Tatars by Ivan III

  • Period: Mar 12, 1469 to Mar 12, 1527

    Life of Machiavelli

  • Period: Mar 12, 1475 to Mar 12, 1514

    Life of Michelangelo

  • Mar 12, 1480

    Moscow region free; Russian expansion south

  • Mar 12, 1488

    Portuguese round Cape of Good Hope

  • Mar 12, 1492

    Columbus' first expedition

  • Mar 12, 1492

    Fall of Granada, expulsion of the Jews

    Granada falls (last Muslim kingdom in Spain). Jews are expelled. Columbus also makes it to the Caribbean.
  • Period: Mar 12, 1497 to Mar 12, 1498

    Vasco de Gama sails to India

  • Period: Mar 12, 1500 to

    Commercial Revolution

  • Mar 12, 1509

    First Spanish colonies on Latin American mainland

  • Mar 12, 1514

    Portuguese expedition to Indonesia

  • Period: Mar 12, 1515 to Mar 12, 1547

    Reign of Francis I (France)

  • Mar 12, 1517

    Luther's 95 theses; beginning of Protestant Reformation

  • Period: Mar 12, 1519 to Mar 12, 1521

    Magellan circumnavigates the globe

  • Period: Mar 12, 1519 to Mar 12, 1524

    Cortes leads conquest of Mexico

  • Period: Mar 12, 1533 to

    Life of Ivan IV

    AKA Ivan the Terrible. First to emphasize the title of tsar, boyar power reduced, regulations and laws introduced, etc.
  • Mar 12, 1534

    First French explorations in Canada

  • Mar 12, 1534

    Beginning of Church of England

  • Period: Mar 12, 1541 to Mar 12, 1564

    Calvin in Geneva

  • Mar 12, 1542

    Portuguese reach Japan

  • Mar 12, 1543

    Copernican revolution and Copernicus's work on astronomy

  • Period: Mar 12, 1550 to

    Religious wars in France, Germany, and Britain

  • Period: Mar 12, 1552 to Mar 12, 1556

    Russian expansion in central Asia and western Siberia

  • Period: Mar 12, 1555 to

    Reign of Elizabeth I (England)

  • Mar 12, 1562

    Britain begins its slave trade

  • Period: Mar 12, 1564 to

    Life of Galileo

  • Mar 12, 1571

    Ottoman fleet defeated in Battle of Lepanto

  • Period: Mar 12, 1580 to

    Spain and Portugal united under same rulers

  • British defeat Spanish Armada

  • Fall of Songhay Empire

    China

  • Japan begins isolation policy

    Out of fear of western ideals (and beliefs such as Christianity), Japan isolates itself so that its culture will remain intact.
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    Scientific Revolution

  • First permanent British colony in Virginia

  • First French colonies in Canada; England gains first trading concession in India

  • Independence of Netherlands

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    Thiry Years War

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    Dutch capture northeastern Brazil

  • Dutch begin conquests of Java (and Indonesia)

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    English Civil War

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    Life of Isaac Newton

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    Culmination of popular rebellions in western Europe

  • Dutch launch colony in southern Africa

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    Habsburgs drive Turks from Hungary

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    Glorious Revolution in Britain

    Parliamentary monarchy, some religious toleration, political writing of John Locke
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    Reign of Peter the Great (Russia)

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    Enlightenment

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    Life of Frederick the Great of Prussia

    enlightened despot

  • First Turkish language printing press

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    European population boom

  • Beginnings of Methodism

  • French-British wars in India

  • "Black Hole" of Calcutta

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    Seven Years War in Europe, India, and North America

  • British acquire New France

  • East India Company controls Bengal

  • Period: to

    American Revolution

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