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Sep 3, 1096
crusades were fought
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Sep 15, 1300
The Renaissance begins
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Sep 11, 1337
100 years war
france and england war main fought in france. many stopping peirods. -
Sep 11, 1347
black death begins in Europe
The plague, which began in asia, spread to different ports via trading ships. Rats on ships carried the disease. -
Oct 3, 1363
Ming dynasty in China
The Ming, described by some as "one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history," -
Sep 29, 1405
voyages of zheng he
he rose to the top of the imperial hierarchy and served as commander of the southern capital Nanjing (the capital was later moved to Beijing by Yongle). These voyages were long neglected in official Chinese histories but have become well known in China and abroad since the publication of Liang Qichao's Biography of Our Homeland's Great Navigator, Zheng He in 1904. 1405-1433 -
Sep 11, 1431
joan of arc burned at the stake
she was 13 when shechad vesions about a war . she was 19 when she was burned. -
Sep 19, 1455
Johannes Gutenburgh created the printing press
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Oct 22, 1476
Pizzarro invades the inca empire
As in Mexico, psychology played a part in the Andes. Montezuma originally mistook Cortés as a returning god; Atahualpa, who had assumed power as the Inca emperor, believed Pizarro and his men were demigods. It was through this initial trust that Pizarro was able to gain Atahualpa's confidence. He soon captured the ruler and held him for ransom. -
Oct 3, 1492
1st voyage of Columbus
Christopher Columbus was an Genoese explorer, navigator, and colonizer, born in the Republic of Genoa. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean. -
Oct 9, 1492
jews,gypsies and moors expelled from Spain
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Oct 1, 1498
Da Gama lands on India
On the way da gamg stooped at several african ports, where he learned that musliim merchants were already actively invovled in trade. -
Oct 9, 1500
Copernicus published heliocentric theroy
he found out the Earth revolves around the sun, he reconized that the geocentric theory did not explsin the movements of the sun, moon, and plants accuratlely. -
Oct 9, 1500
Slave trade across Atlantic
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Sep 29, 1501
Safavid Emipire
East of the Otomans, Persian Muslims called the safavids began an empire around 1500. the Safaivds soon came into conflicts with the ottomans and other muslims.1501-1722 -
Oct 9, 1502
Nameing of the New world
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Sep 15, 1508
Michelangelo starts painting the Sistine Chapel
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Sep 19, 1517
Martin Luther posts 95 theses
Luther flatly denied that indulgenecs had any power to remit sin. He also the power of the pope and the wealth of the church. -
Oct 3, 1517
Da vinci paints the mona lisa
The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait of a woman. -
Sep 25, 1519
Magellan Starts his "around the world" trip
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Oct 7, 1526
Mughal Empire begins
Names come from the persian word mogul for" Mongol", region as India's First Muslim Empire and were one of the great civilzations of histoery. -
Oct 3, 1527
Phillip II rules spain
Wanted to spread the roman Catholic Faith and conquer england. -
Oct 3, 1534
Henry VII founds Anglican church
Henry breaks from Cathlic Church. He founds the church of england and serves as its head. -
Oct 1, 1545
Council of Trent
Its delegates examined the criticisms made by protestants about catholic practices.I doing so, they clarified catholic teaching on important points. -
Sep 25, 1558
Elizabeth 1 becomes queen of england
restores the church england and support for protestantism. -
Oct 4, 1568
Tokugawa Shogunate ends
For more than 100 years before the Tokugawa Shogunate took power in Japan in 1603, the country wallowed in lawlessness and chaos -
Jamestown, Colony in Vrginia, found
the first english colony was established at Jamestown. They hoped to find gold and silverand possibly a river route to the pacific. Instaed thay found marshy ground and impure water. -
Oliver Comwell rules England
Oliver Cromwell was an English military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. -
Thomas Hobbes writtes Leviathan
Hobbes argues for the necessity and natural evolution of the social contract, a social construct in which individuals mutually unite into political societies, agreeing to abide by common rules and accept resultant duties to protect themselves and one another from whatever might come otherwise. -
Louis XIV becomes king of france
in 1651 (aged thirteen) he was declared of age officially, but he did not take control of government until the death of Cardinal Mazarin in 1661.Louis XIV had not received much of an academic education, although he later picked up some Latin and modern languages. He was a handsome and athletic youth who had mastered fencing, dancing and riding. Mazarin had coached the king in ruling, and commented that Louis questioned him critically. -
Peter I( the great) becomes Czar
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Catherine the Great rules Russia
Catherine and many Russian nobles grew angry at his weak and incompetent rule.with the help of her allies -
French Revolution begins
The French Revolution was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France from 1789 to 1799 that profoundly affected French and modern history, marking the decline of powerful monarchies and churches and the rise of democracy and nationalism. -
u.s. constitution is ratified
North Carolina ratified the Constitution. Finally, Rhode Island, which had rejected the Constitution by popular referendum, called a ratifying convention in 1790 as specified by the Constitutional Convention -
Reign of terror begins
the mountain began a series jof accusations, trails and executions. creating a wave of fear throughtout the country. -
Age of Enlightenment
The Age of Enlightenment was a cultural movement of intellectuals beginning in late 17th-century Europe emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. -
Napolean becomes Emperor
he made himself emperor of the French people. He fought a series of wars—the Napoleonic Wars—that involved complex coalitions for and against him. After a streak of victories, France secured a dominant position in continental Europe, -
napolean deafeated @ waterlon
Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands. A French army under the command of Napoleon was defeated by the armies of the Seventh Coalition, comprising an Anglo-allied army under the command of the Duke of Wellington combined with a Prussian army under the command of Gebhard von Blücher.
