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May 29, 1453
Ottomans Conquer Constantinople
The capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, known as Constantinople, was conquered by Ottoman army. After this Ottomans became an Empire and one of the most powerful empires. -
Nov 17, 1558
Elizabeth I Becomes Queen of England
Elizabeth I was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, and she was the last monarch of the Tudor dynasty. -
Tokugawa Shogunate
Was the last feudal Japanese military government. -
The Thirty Years War
The Thirty Years' War was a series of wars in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648. It was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history, as well as the deadliest European religious war, resulting in eight million casualties -
The English Civil War
The English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists over, principally, the manner of England's government. -
Manchus founded the Qing Dynasty in China
The Qing dynasty was the last imperial dynasty of China. It was preceded by the Ming dynasty and succeeded by the Republic of China. -
Peter the Great becomes Czar of Russia
Peter the Great was born Pyotr Alekseyevich on June 9, 1672 in Moscow, Russia. Having ruled jointly with his brother Ivan V from 1682, when Ivan died in 1696, Peter was officially declared Sovereign of all Russia. -
Catherine the Great becomes Czarina of Russia
fter the death of the Empress Elizabeth on 5 January 1762, Peter succeeded to the throne as Emperor Peter III, and Catherine became empress consort. The imperial couple moved into the new Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg. -
The French Revolution
A watershed event in modern European history, the French Revolution began in 1789 and ended in the late 1790s with the ascent of Napoleon Bonaparte. -
The Napoleonic Age
The Napoleonic era is a period in the history of France and Europe. It is generally classified as including the fourth and final stage of the French Revolution. -
The Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution is the name given the movement in which machines changed people's way of life as well as their methods of manufacture. About the time of the American Revolution, the people of England began to use machines to make cloth and steam engines to run the machines. -
Mexico Declares its independence from Spain
The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire is the document by which the Mexican Empire declared independence from the Spanish Empire. -
Mexico Declares its independence from Spain
The Declaration of Independence of the Mexican Empire is the document by which the Mexican Empire declared independence from the Spanish Empire. -
The Great Reform Bill of 1832
The 1832 Reform Act was the result of a long struggle both in the streets and in Parliament, but although it enfranchised some. -
The Great Potato Famine
The Great Famine or the Great Hunger was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852. -
Karl Marx and Frederic Engels publish "The Communist Manifesto"
On February 21, 1848, The Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx with the assistance of Friedrich Engels, is published in London by a group of German-born revolutionary socialists known as the Communist League. -
The Unification of Italy
Italian unification, was the political and social movement that consolidated different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of the Kingdom of Italy in the 19th century. -
The Taiping Rebellion
The Taiping Rebellion is one of the forerunners of China's awakening. It is one of the early tremors of a Communist earthquake, and the ultimate rise of a dynasty of the people, rather than the conquerors. -
The British Colonization of India
After 1858, India became officially a British colony as British crown took control of India from East India Company. -
The British Colonization of India
After 1858, India became officially a British colony as British crown took control of India from East India Company. -
The Civil War begins in the United States
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States fought from 1861 to 1865. The Union faced secessionists in eleven Southern states grouped together as the Confederate States of America. War broke out in April 1861 when Confederates attacked the U.S. fortress Fort Sumter. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. -
The Suez Canal
The Suez Canal is actually the first canal that directly links the Mediterranean Sea. -
The Unification Of Germany
The unification of Germany into a politically and administratively integrated nation state officially occurred on 18 January 1871 in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles in France. -
The Berlin Conference
Called the scramble. It was a group of people who come together to divide up parts of Africa by cutting out sections on maps.
