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 1588 England Defeats Spanish Armada 1589 4,000 English troops land in Normandy to aid Henry of Navarre 1590 End Of Desert Kingdoms In Africa 1601 Matteo Ricci Allowed to Trade with Beijing 1603 James I Becomes King Of England 1603 Tokugawa Shogunate begins 1603 Scottish James VI made English James I - first Stuart king 1603 Elizabeth I dies - end of Tudor rule in England 1605 Guy Fawkes' Gunpowder Plot against James' anti-Catholic laws 1606 Dutch explorers land on Australian mainland 1606 Dutch explorers land on Australian mainland 1607 First permanent British settlement founded in Virginia, North America 1608 Quebec Founded 1610 End of Anatolian Revolts 1616 Henry IV of France assassinated by Catholic fanatic 1618 Thirty Years' War in Germany to decide Bohemian succession 1619 Dutch Empire Founded 1621 Iraq Occupied By Persia 1624 Japan Expulsion of Spanish and Portuguese Traders 1630 Peace with France and Spain 1637 Russian pioneers reach Pacific coast 1638 Dutch take Mauritius 1638 Montreal Founded 1642 English Civil War 1642 Death of Galileo Galileo (astronomer) 1644 Qing Dynasty Begins 1645 Death of Grotius (founder of International Law) 1648 Netherlands finally achieves independence from Spain - Peace of Westphalia 1648 Cossack uprising begins Polish demise as a major power 1648 Netherlands finally achieves independence from Spain - Peace of Westphalia 1648 Second Civil War Scots now side with the king and are defeated 1650 Rise of Ashanti 1650 Taj Mahal built by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan 1652 Dutch establish first colony in South Africa 1659 French frontiers enlarged after treaty with Spain 1662 Church of England restored 1662 Beginning of Kangxi Rule in China 1664 New York taken from Dutch by British 1667 Louis XIV starts series of wars to expand French borders 1685 Edict Of Nantes Revoked 1685 James II succedes to English throne after Charles' death 1689 Treaty of Nerchinsk with Russia 1689 Beginning of Rule of Peter the Great 1690 Mugal Conquest 1691 Kangxi Brings Inner Mongolia Under Qing Control 1692 Witchcraft trials in Salem, Massachusetts 1694 Bank of England founded 1700 British East India Company controls key Indian ports 1700 British Industrial Revolution 1700 Charles XII of Sweden starts Great Northern War against Russia 1702 Trial of the Forty-Seven Ronin 1704 British capture Gibraltar from Spain 1710 Fall of the Whig Ministry Tories cometo power - Harley ministry 1712 St. Petersburg Becomes Russia's Capital 1713 Confederacy of six nation formed 1720 Construction of Louisbourg begins 1722 End of Kangxi Rule in China 1725 End of Rule of Peter the Great 1730 Janissary Revolt Begins Period of Ottoman Conservatism 1736 Beginning of Qianlong Rule in China 1739 Iranians Under Nahir Shah Sack Delhi 1740 Native guides lead the Verendrye Family across the prairies. 1740 Beginning of the War of the Austrian Succession 1754 Seven Years' War 1763 End of the Seven Years War Peace of Paris 1768 Cook Lands New Zealand 1775 War of Independence 1776 Declaration of Independence 1778 British colonization begins 1784 East India Act 1788 Senegal passes law against slavery 1789 French Revolution begins 1792 Coal and gas used for lighting 1794 Habeas Corups suspended 1796 End of Qianlong Rule in China 1798 Toussaint L' Ouverture frees the Africans in Haiti 1803 Purchase of Louisiana 1804 Napoleon crowns himself emperor 1807 Abolition of the slave trade