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May 29, 1453
Ottomans Conquer Constantinople
The Capital of the Eastern Roman Empire. With this conquest Ottomans became an Empire and one of the most powerful empires. -
Nov 7, 1558
Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England
Queen of England and Ireland until her death. She was sometimes called the virgin queen. Elizabeth was the last monarch of the Tudor dynasty. -
England defeats the Spanish Armada
Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from A Coruña under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia. -
Tokugawa Shogunate
Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the Tokugawa bakufu and Edo bakufu was the last feudal Japanese military government. -
The Thirty Years War
Was a series of wars in Central Europe. It was one of the longest and most destructive conflict in Europe history. -
Manchus found the Qing Dynasty in China
Was the last imperial dynasty in China. The Manchus who originally lived in the north east, A region later called Manchuria. -
The English Civil War
The English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalist over, principally, the manner of England's government. -
Peter the Great becomes Czar of Russia
Peter the Great was the 14th child of CzarAlex by his second wife. When Ivan died Peter was officially declared Sovereign of all Russia -
The British Colonization of India
Colonial India was one of the main types of trade in the world economy and was the main catalyst for the period of European exploration. -
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. -
Catherine the Great becomes Czarina of Russia
Catherine II, often called Catherine the Great became the Russian empress in 1762. -
The French Revolution
The French Revolution was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France that lasted from 1789 until 1799, and was partially carried forward by Napoleon. -
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 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. -
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 Reform Bills were a series of proposals to reform voting in the British parliament. These include the Reform Acts of 1832. -
The Opium War
The Opium Wars were two wars in the mid-19th century involving Anglo-Chinese disputes over British trade in China and China's sovereignty. -
The Great Potato Famine
The Great Famine or the Great Hunger was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland. -
Karl Marx and Frederic Engels publish The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto is an 1848 political pamphlet by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. -
The Taiping Rebellion
The Taiping Rebellion also known as The Taiping Civil War was a massive rebellion or civil war in China between the established Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the millenarian 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 and did you know the Suez Canal was once owned by England through the Isthmus of Suez. -
Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species
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The Civil War begins in the United States
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The Emancipation Proclamation
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The Meiji Restoration
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The Unification of Germany
The unification of Germany into a politically and administratively integrated nation state. -
The Berlin Conference
The Berlin Conference also known as the Congo Conference regulated European colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period, and coincided with Germany's sudden emergence as an imperial power. -
The Russo-Japanese
The Russo-Japanese War was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and Korea. -
The Mexican Revolution
The Mexican Revolution was a major armed struggle that radically transformed Mexican culture and government. -
World War I begins
World War I, also known as the First World War, was a global war originating in Europe. -
The Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917. -
The Chinese Revolution
The Chinese Revolution was the culmination of the Chinese Communist Party's drive to power and the second part of the Chinese Civil War.
