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May 29, 1453
Ottomans Conquer Constantinople
The Ottoman Empire, who were Islamic, conquered Constantinople and took over trade in the Middle East. This empire would spread throughout the Middle East and North America until 1919. -
Nov 17, 1558
Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England
Elizabeth I was Queen from 17 November, 1558, until she died on March 26, 1603. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, the childless queen ruled over England and Ireland. Elizabeth was the last monarch of the Tudor dynasty. -
England Defeats the Spanish Armada
The Spanish Armada was a Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed in August 1588, under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia, wanting to escort an army from Flanders to invade England. -
Tokugawa Shogunate
Tokugawa clan takes over imperial Japan and establishes itself as the Shogun. They establish the capital at Kyoto and rule until 1857. -
The Thirty Years War
The Thirty Years War was a series of wars between 1618 and 1648 in Central Europe. This war was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history. It is also considered the deadliest European religious war, resulting in eight million casualties. -
The English Civil War
The English Civil War was multiple armed conflicts and political design between Parliamentarians and Royalists over the manner of England's government. This all happened between August 1642 to September 1651. -
Manchus found the Qing Dynasty of China
Was the last imperial dynasty of china. It was preceded by the Ming dynasty. It was lead by Manchus. It was succeeded by the Republic of China. -
Peter the Great Becomes Czar of Russia
Peter was the fourteenth child of Czar Alexis and his second wife, Natalya Kirillovna Naryshkina. Peter had joint ruling with brother Ivan V since 1682, until Ivan died in 1696. -
The British Colonization of India
Colonial India was one of the main trade types in the world and was the main stimulation for the period of European exploration. The search for the wealth and prosperity of India led to the accidental "discovery" of the Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492. Only a few years later, Portuguese sailor Vasco da Gama became the first European to re-establish direct trade links with India. -
The Industrial Revolutiuon
The Industrial Revolution was the transformation to new manufacturing processes from about 1760 to around 1820-40. The Industrial Revolution included people like Eli Whitney, James Hargraves, Jethro Tull, James Watt, Richard Trevithick, and many more. -
Catherine the Great becomes Czarina of Russia
Tsar Peter III reigned for only six months until he died in July of 1762. After the death of the Empress Elizabeth in January of 1762, Peter succeeded to the throne as Czar of Russia, and Catherine became Czarina. -
The British Colonies of North America Declare Their Independence
The British colonies of North America write "The Declaration of Independence" on July 4th, 1776. This is now an American holiday celebrated all across the country, to celebrate our independence. -
The French Revolution
The French Revolution was a period of social and political disruption in France that lasted from 1789 until 1799. It was partially carried forward by Napoleon during the later expansion of the French Empire. This ends up with a beheading of the king and queen. -
The Napoleonic Age
The Napoleonic era is a period of France and Europe history. It is generally categorized as including the final stage of the French Revolution, the National Assembly, the Legislative Assembly, and the Directory. -
Mexico Declares its Independence from Spain
In the early 19th century, Napoleon's occupation of Spain led to the outbreak of riots all across Spanish America. On September 16, 1810, a Catholic priest launched the Mexican War of Independence with the issuing of his Grito de Dolores, the battle cry of the Mexican War of Independence. -
The Unification of Italy
Italian unification was the political and social motion that united different states of the Italian peninsula into the one state of the Kingdom of Italy in the 19th century. The operation began in 1815 with the Congress of Vienna, and was finished in 1871 when Rome became the capital of the Italian Kingdom. -
The Great Reform Bill of 1832
The Great Reform Act was an Act of Parliament that launched wide-ranging adjustments to the electoral system of England and Wales. According to its prologue, the Act was designed to "take effectual Measures for correcting divers Abuses that have long prevailed in the Choice of Members to serve in the Commons House of Parliament". -
The Opium Wars
The Opium Wars were two wars in the mid 19th century including Anglo-Chinese arguments over British trade in China and China's power. These arguments included the First and the Second Opium Wars. -
The Great Potato Famine
The Great Potato Famine was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852. It is sometimes called the Irish Potato Famine because about two-fifths of the population relied solely on this crop. -
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto
On February 21, 1848, The Communist Manifesto, a philosophical pamphlet, was written by Karl Marx with the assistance of Friedrich Engels. The pamphlet was published in London by a group of German-born revolutionary socialists known as the Communist League. They are saying that you only need as much as you need to live. -
The Taiping Rebellion
The Taiping Rebellion, or Taiping Civil War, was a massive civil war in China that lasted from 1850 to 1864. The war was fought between the Qing dynasty and the optimist movement of the Heavenly Kingdom of Peace. -
The Suez Canal
The Suez Canal is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea through the Isthmus of Suez. It was constructed by the Suez Canal Company between 1859 and 1869. Wikipedia -
Charles Darwin Publishes The Origin of Species
The Origin of Species, published in 1859, is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin that is said to be the base of evolutionary biology. -
The Civil War Begins in the United States
The American Civil War was a war in the United States that was fought from 1861 to 1865. The Union faced separations in eleven Southern states that were associated together as the Confederate States of America. The Union (North) won the war, which stands as the bloodiest war in U.S. history. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. It claimed to change the legal status of more than three million enslaved people in the South, but did not immediately work. -
The Meiji Restoration
The Meiji Restoration was a chain of events that reestablished imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji. Even though there were Emperors before the restoration, the events restored practical capabilities of the political system under the rule of the Emperor of Japan. -
The Unification of Germany
In July 1870, France declared war on Prussia. Within a matter of weeks of fighting in Alsace-Lorraine, France lost this Franco-Prussian War. Alsace-Lorraine was transferred to Germany in the peace settlement, allowing Prussia to declare the German Empire, or Second Reich, on January 21, 1871. -
The Berlin Conference
Carved up Africa into European colonies. This was the first step of imperialism. The Berlin Conference regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period, and coexisted with Germany's sudden appearance as an imperial power. They carved up Africa into European colonies and were the first step to imperialism. -
The Russo-Japanese War
The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial intentions in Manchuria and Korea. The major theatres of operations were the Liaodong Peninsula and Mukden in Southern Manchuria, and the seas around Korea, Japan, and the Yellow Sea. -
The Mexican Revolution
The Mexican Revolution was a major armed fight that extremely transformed Mexican culture and government. Even though recent research had focused on local and regional features of the Revolution, it was an authentic national revolution. -
The Chinese Revolution
Also known as the the Xinhai Revolution, the Chinese Revolution was a revolution that overthrew China's last imperial dynasty and created the Republic of China. The revolution was named Xinhai because it occurred in 1911, which was also the year of the Xinhai stem-branch in the sexagenary cycle of the Chinese calendar. -
World War I Begins
Gavrilo Princip assassinates Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, then on July 28, 1914, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia.The Ottoman Empire and Germany sign a secret treaty of alliance and on August 3, 1914 Germany declares war on France. -
The Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was a group of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which took apart the Tsarist dictatorship and led to the rise of the Soviet Union. The Russians realized that they had lost to people who used swords thirty years ago, and decided they needed a new government. They then got rid of czars and etc.
