Period 4 By nab.ok Period: 1289 to 1923 Ottoman Dynasty Period: 1368 to 1644 Ming Dynasty Period: 1394 to 1460 Life of Prince Henry the Navigator 1441 Beginning of Portuguese slave trade Period: 1451 to 1481 Reign of Mehmed the Conqueror 1453 Ottoman Conquest of Constantinople Period: 1464 to 1591 Songhay Empire Period: 1473 to 1543 Life of Copernicus Period: 1483 to 1546 Life of Martin Luther 1488 Dias's Voyage around the Cape of Good Hope 1492 Columbus's first voyage to the western hemisphere 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas Period: 1497 to 1498 da Gama's first voyage to India 1500 Portuguese establish trading post in Calicut, India Period: 1501 to 1722 Safavid Dynasty Period: 1506 to 1542 Reign of King Alfonso I of Kongo Period: 1509 to 1547 Reign of Henry VIII Period: 1509 to 1564 Life of John Calvin 1514 Battle of Chaldiran 1517 Publication of 95 Theses 1518 Smallpox in the Carribean Period: 1519 to 1522 Magellan's(crew) circumnavigation of the world Period: 1519 to 1521 Spanish conquest of Mexico Period: 1520 to 1566 Reign of Suleyman the Magnificent Period: 1526 to 1858 Mughal Dynasty 1540 Society of the Jesus(Jesuits) 1545 Spanish discovery of silver at Potosi Period: 1545 to 1563 Council of Trent Period: 1552 to 1610 Life of Matteo Ricci Period: 1556 to 1665 Reign of Akbar Period: 1564 to 1642 Life of Galileo Period: 1565 to 1575 Spanish conquest of the Philippines 1588 Spanish Armada Period: 1588 to 1629 Reign of Shah Abbas Period: 1600 to 1867 Tokugawa shogunate of Japan 1607 Foundation of Jamestown Period: 1618 to 1648 Thirty Year's War 1619 Dutch establishment of Batavia in Java Period: 1623 to 1663 Reign of Queen Nzinga of Ndongo Period: 1642 to 1727 Life of Newton Period: 1644 to 1911 Qing Dynsty 1648 Peace of Westphalia Period: 1659 to 1707 Reign of Aurangzeb 1688 Smallpox in Guam Period: 1756 to 1763 Seven Year's War Period: 1768 to 1780 Cook's voyage to the Pacific Ocean