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Feb 16, 1299
Ottoman dynasty
The Ottoman dynasty, made up of the members of the House of Osman , ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1299 to 1922, beginning with Osman I , though the dynasty was not proclaimed until Orhan Bey declared himself sultan. Sultan was the sole and absolute leader, head of state and head of government of the empire. Muslims. Were a potent power in the middle East, stopped most super powers cold. -
Feb 16, 1375
Songhai Empire
The Songhai Empire, also known as the Songhay Empire, was a Songhai state located in western Africa. From the mid-15th to the late 16th century, Songhai was one of the largest Islamic empires in history. -
Feb 16, 1394
Prince Henry the Navigator
Henry was the third child of King John I of Portugal, founder of the Aviz dynasty, and of Philippa of Lancaster, John of Gaunt's daughter. Henry encouraged his father to conquer Ceuta, the Muslim port on the North African coast across the Straits of Gibraltar from the Iberian peninsula. -
Feb 16, 1432
Reign of Mehmed the Conqueror
Mehmed II or Mehmed the Conqueror was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire twice, first for a short time from 1444 to September 1446, and later from February 1451 to 1481. At the age of 21, he conquered Constantinopleand brought an end to the Byzantine Empire, transforming the Ottoman state into an empire. -
Feb 14, 1444
Portuguese slavery
Portugal started the European slave trade with Africa. Prince Henry the Navigator of Portugal sent a trading expedition to Africa, to explore the little known continent, in 1441. By 1444, a ‘cargo’ of 235 enslaved Africans had been brought to Lagos in Portugal. The Portuguese were using enslaved Africans on sugar plantations in Madeira, a Portuguese island off the west coast of Africa.Lisbon, in Portugal, was the major port involved in the Portuguese slave trade. -
Feb 16, 1464
Reign of Sunni Ali
Sonni Ali, also known as Sunni Ali Ber or "Sunni Ali", was born Ali Kolon. He reigned from about 1464 to 1492. Sunni Ali was the first king of the Songhai Empire, located in west Africa and the 15th ruler of the Sonni dynasty. Under Sunni Ali's infantry and cavalry many cities were captured and then fortified, such as Timbuktuand Djenné. Sonni conducted a repressive policy against the scholars of Timbuktu. -
Feb 15, 1483
Martin Luther
Martin Luther was born in 1483. Martin Luther was a German monk, former Catholic priest, professor of theology and seminal figure of a reform movement in 16th century Christianity, subsequently known as the Protestant Reformation. He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment for sin could be purchased with monetary values. He confronted indulgence sales. -
Feb 15, 1488
Bartolomeu Dias
Bartolomeu Dias was born in 1450 and was sent by Portuguese King John II to explore the coast of Africa and find a way to the Indian Ocean. Dias left circa August 1487, rounding the southernmost tip of Africa in January, 1488. The Portuguese (possibly Dias himself) named this point of land the Cape of Good Hope. Dias was lost at sea during another expedition around the Cape in 1500. -
Aug 3, 1492
Columbus' first voyage
Having convinced the King and Queen of Spain to finance his voyage, Christopher Columbus departed mainland Spain on August 3, 1492. He quickly made port in the Canary Islands for a final restocking and left there on September 6. He was in command of three ships: the Pinta, the Niña, and the Santa María. Although Columbus was in overall command, the Pinta was captained by Martín Alonso Pinzón and the Niña by Vicente Yañez Pinzón. -
Feb 16, 1494
Treaty of Tordesillas
Treaty created by the pope, and divided south america between Spain and Portugal. Spain got the west, and Portugal got the East. Spain got the more profitable half. -
Feb 16, 1501
Safavid dynasty
The Safavids ruled from 1501 to 1722 (experiencing a brief restoration from 1729 to 1736) and at their height, they controlled all of modern Iran, Azerbaijan and Armenia, most of Iraq, Georgia, Afghanistan, and the Caucasus, as well as parts of Syria, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Turkey. Safavid Iran was one of the Islamic "gunpowder empires", along with its neighbours, the Ottoman and Mughal empires. -
Feb 15, 1509
John Calvin
John Calvin was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism. Wikipedia. -
Feb 16, 1520
Reign of Suleiman the Magnificent
Suleiman became a prominent monarch of 16th-century Europe, presiding over the apex of the Ottoman Empire's military, political and economic power. Suleiman personally led Ottoman armies in conquering the Christian strongholds of Belgrade, Rhodes, as well as most of Hungary before his conquests were checked at the Siege of Vienna in 1529. -
Feb 16, 1521
Spanish Conquest of mexico
The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire was one of the most significant events in the Spanish colonization of the Americas. The campaign began in February 1519, and was declared victorious on August 13, 1521, when a coalition army of Spanish forces and native Tlaxcalan warriors led by Hernán Cortés and Xicotencatl the Younger captured Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire. Moctezuma was convinced that Cortés was a god. -
Feb 16, 1526
Mughal dynasty
The Mughal Empire, self-designated as Gurkani, was an empire extending over large parts of the Indian subcontinent and ruled by a dynasty of Chagatai-Turkic origin. Northern India. -
Feb 15, 1540
Foundation of Society of Jesus
The Society of Jesus is a Christian male religious congregation of the Catholic Church. The members are called Jesuits. The society is engaged in evangelization and apostolic ministry in 112 nations on six continents. Jesuits work in education intellectual research, and cultural pursuits. Jesuits also give retreats, minister in hospitals and parishes and promote social justice and ecumenical dialogu -
Dec 13, 1545
Council of Trent
The Council of Trent was a council of the Catholic Church. It is tone of he Church's most important councils. The council played a huge role in the Counter Reformation. -
Feb 16, 1556
Reign of Akbar
Akbar was an ambitious and noble commander who built the largest army ever in the history of the Mughal empire[.](http://islamicart.com/library/empires/india/akbar.html) By the end of the 16th century, a Mughal army in the field resembled a city on the move. Not all of Akbar's military expeditions were of an expansionist nature. Akbar also was compelled to quell formidable uprisings among his own subjects, especially the Uzbeks and the Afghans. The Afghans in India were the most turbulent and dangerous of the emperor's subjects. -
Feb 15, 1564
Galileo
Galileo Galilei, often known as Galileo, was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the scientific revolution. He attributed to the field of astronomy. -
Feb 16, 1572
Reign of Emperor Wanli
The Wanli Emperor was the thirteenth emperor of the Ming Dynasty in China. His era name means "Ten thousand calendars". Born Zhu Yijun, he was the Longqing Emperor's third son. His rule of forty-eight years was the longest in the Ming dynasty and it witnessed the steady decline of the dynasty. -
Spanish Armada
The Spanish Armada was a Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from A Coruña in August 1588 under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia with the purpose of escorting an army from Flanders to invade England. The strategic aim was to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I of England and the Tudor establishment of protestantism in England, with the expectation that this would put a stop to English interference in the Spanish Netherlands. -
Tokugawa shogunate
The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the Tokugawa bakufu (徳川幕府?) and the Edo bakufu (江戸幕府?), was the last feudal Japanese military government which existed between 1600 and 1868. The heads of government were the shoguns, and each was a member of the Tokugawa clan. The Tokugawa shogunate ruled from Edo Castle and the years of shogunate became known as the Edo period. This time is also called the Tokugawa period or pre-modern. -
Thirty Years' War
The Thirty Years' War was a series of wars principally fought in Central Europe, involving most of the countries of Europe. It was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history, and one of the longest continuous wars in modern history.eligion was a motivation for war as Protestant and Catholic states battled it out even though they all were inside the Holy Roman Empire. Was ended with PEace of Westphalia -
John Locke
John Locke was an English philosopher and physician regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and known as the "Father of Classical Liberalism", he is considered one of the first of the British empiricists, following the tradition of Francis Bacon, he is equally important to social contract theory. His work greatly affected the development of epistemology and political philosophy. -
Qing dynasty
The Qing Dynasty also Empire of the Great Qing, Great Qing or Manchu Dynasty, was the last imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 with a brief, abortive restoration in 1917. It was preceded by the Ming Dynasty and succeeded by the Republic of China. The Qing multi-cultural empire lasted almost three centuries and formed the territorial base for the modern Chinese nation. -
Peace of Westphalia
The Peace of Westphalia was a series of peace treaties signed betwen May and October 1648 in Osnabrück and Münster. These treaties ended the Thirty Years' Warin the Holy Roman Empire, and the Eighty Years' War between Spain and the Dutch Republic, with Spain formally recognizing the independence of the Dutch Republic. -
Seven Years' War
It involved most of the great powers of the time and affected Europe, North America, Central America, the West African coast, India, and the Philippines. In the historiography of some countries, the war is alternatively named after combatants in the respective theatres: the French and Indian War as it is known in the United States or the War of the Conquest -
Establishment of 1st colony in Australia
The first 736 convicts banished from England to Australia land in Botany Bay. Over the next 60 years, 50,000 criminals were transported from Great Britain to the "land down under," in one of the strangest episodes in criminal-justice history. They first arrived in Sydney and later explored the continent later. -
Hatian Revolution
The Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) was a slave revolt in the French colony of Saint-Domingue, which culminated in the elimination of slavery there and the founding of the Republic of Haiti. The Haitian Revolution was the only slave revolt which led to the founding of a state. Furthermore, it is generally considered the most successful slave rebellion ever to have occurred and as a defining moment in the histories of both Europe and the Americas. Thank you Wikipedia. -
End of the British slave trade
The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 was an 1833 Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom abolishing slavery throughout the British Empire. The Act was repealed in 1998 as part of a wider rationalisation of English statute law, but later anti-slavery legislation remains in force.
