World Events between 1500-1800 (Ari, Jacob, Andrew)

By ari25
  • 1500

    Spain Conquers The Americas

  • 1501

    Persian Safavid Dynasty Begins

  • 1502

    Fanatical Shi'ite Islam develops under Safavids of Persia

  • 1503

    Powerful Italian general Caesar Borgia defeated in Spain

  • 1509

    Portuguese trading empire established at Goa, South India

  • 1510

    Portuguese trading empire established at Goa, India

  • 1510

    Death of Sandro Botticelli (artist)

  • 1511

    Henry VIII succedes to English throne

  • 1512

    Spaniard Vasco Núñez de Balboa first to see Pacific Ocean (from Panama)

  • 1513

    Juan Ponce de Leon claims Florida for Spain

  • 1513

    James IV of Scotland killed by English forces at Flodden

  • 1516

    Sir Thomas More writes "Utopia"

  • 1517

    Protestant Revolution Begins

  • 1517

    Turks Conquer Egypt

  • 1517

    China Begins Trade With Europe

  • 1517

    Luther publishes 95 Theses - start of Reformation

  • 1522

    Portuguese Ferdinand Magellan's expedition for Spain first to circumnavigate globe

  • 1523

    England abandons attempted French invasion

  • 1526

    Hungarian and Bohemian crowns unite with Austrian Hapsburgs

  • 1526

    Babur Defeats Last Sultan of Delhi

  • 1529

    First Ottoman Siege of Vienna

  • 1531

    Incan Empire Invaded By Spain

  • 1531

    Death of Ulrich Zwingli (religious reformer and statesman)

  • 1533

    Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn without papal approval

  • 1534

    French Reach Canada

  • 1534

    Henry VIII Breaks With Rome

  • 1536

    British Settle In America

  • 1538

    Colombia conquered for Spain by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada

  • 1543

    First Portuguese Contacts with Japan

  • 1545

    Colombia conquered for Spain by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada

  • 1547

    Ivan IV Takes the Title of Tsar

  • 1550

    France returns Boulogne to England for a cash payment.

  • 1555

    Peace of Augsburg - allows choice of religious denomination

  • 1556

    Accession of Akbar

  • 1558

    Philip II inherits Spain and other lands from Hapsburgs

  • 1559

    England ends war with France

  • 1582

    Hideyoshi unites the country

  • 1582

    Russians Conquer Khanate of Sibur

  • England Defeats Spanish Armada

  • 4,000 English troops land in Normandy to aid Henry of Navarre

  • End Of Desert Kingdoms In Africa

  • Matteo Ricci Allowed to Trade with Beijing

  • James I Becomes King Of England

  • Tokugawa Shogunate begins

  • Scottish James VI made English James I - first Stuart king

  • Elizabeth I dies - end of Tudor rule in England

  • Guy Fawkes' Gunpowder Plot against James' anti-Catholic laws

  • Dutch explorers land on Australian mainland

  • Dutch explorers land on Australian mainland

  • First permanent British settlement founded in Virginia, North America

  • Quebec Founded

  • End of Anatolian Revolts

  • Henry IV of France assassinated by Catholic fanatic

  • Thirty Years' War in Germany to decide Bohemian succession

  • Dutch Empire Founded

  • Iraq Occupied By Persia

  • Japan Expulsion of Spanish and Portuguese Traders

  • Peace with France and Spain

  • Russian pioneers reach Pacific coast

  • Dutch take Mauritius

  • Montreal Founded

  • English Civil War

  • Death of Galileo Galileo (astronomer)

  • Qing Dynasty Begins

  • Death of Grotius (founder of International Law)

  • Netherlands finally achieves independence from Spain - Peace of Westphalia

  • Cossack uprising begins Polish demise as a major power

  • Netherlands finally achieves independence from Spain - Peace of Westphalia

  • Second Civil War Scots now side with the king and are defeated

  • Rise of Ashanti

  • Taj Mahal built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan

  • Dutch establish first colony in South Africa

  • French frontiers enlarged after treaty with Spain

  • Church of England restored

  • Beginning of Kangxi Rule in China

  • New York taken from Dutch by British

  • Louis XIV starts series of wars to expand French borders

  • Edict Of Nantes Revoked

  • James II succedes to English throne after Charles' death

  • Treaty of Nerchinsk with Russia

  • Beginning of Rule of Peter the Great

  • Mugal Conquest

  • Kangxi Brings Inner Mongolia Under Qing Control

  • Witchcraft trials in Salem, Massachusetts

  • Bank of England founded

  • British East India Company controls key Indian ports

  • British Industrial Revolution

  • Charles XII of Sweden starts Great Northern War against Russia

  • Trial of the Forty-Seven Ronin

  • British capture Gibraltar from Spain

  • Fall of the Whig Ministry Tories cometo power - Harley ministry

  • St. Petersburg Becomes Russia's Capital

  • Confederacy of six nation formed

  • Construction of Louisbourg begins

  • End of Kangxi Rule in China

  • End of Rule of Peter the Great

  • Janissary Revolt Begins Period of Ottoman Conservatism

  • Beginning of Qianlong Rule in China

  • Iranians Under Nahir Shah Sack Delhi

  • Native guides lead the Verendrye Family across the prairies.

  • Beginning of the War of the Austrian Succession

  • Seven Years' War

  • End of the Seven Years War Peace of Paris

  • Cook Lands New Zealand

  • War of Independence

  • Declaration of Independence

  • British colonization begins

  • East India Act

  • Senegal passes law against slavery

  • French Revolution begins

  • Coal and gas used for lighting

  • Habeas Corups suspended

  • End of Qianlong Rule in China

  • Toussaint L' Ouverture frees the Africans in Haiti

  • Purchase of Louisiana

  • Napoleon crowns himself emperor

  • Abolition of the slave trade