Tys world history timeline

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  • Ottomans Conquer Constantinople
    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.
  • Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England
    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

    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

    Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the Tokugawa bakufu and Edo bakufu was the last feudal Japanese military government.
  • The Thirty Years War

    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

    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

    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 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

    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

    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 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

    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 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

    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

    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 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 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 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

    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

    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

    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

    Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species

  • The Civil War begins in the United States

    The Civil War begins in the United States

  • The Emancipation Proclamation

    The Emancipation Proclamation

  • The Meiji Restoration

    The Meiji Restoration

  • The Unification of Germany

    The Unification of Germany

    The unification of Germany into a politically and administratively integrated nation state.
  • The Berlin Conference

    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

    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

    The Mexican Revolution was a major armed struggle that radically transformed Mexican culture and government.
  • World War I begins

    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

    The Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917.
  • The Chinese Revolution

    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.