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Period: Jan 1, 1096 to Jan 1, 1291
Crusades are fought
When the Crusades ended the muslims had regained control of the holy land. The crusades also brought the use of crossbows into warfare -
Jan 1, 1300
Renaissance begins
The economy and social structure changed' new ideas and art forms began as well a new form and large booms of literiture. French for re-birth -
Jan 1, 1347
Black Death begins in Europe
The shortage of laybor gave the peasants more bargining power. The population of Europe didn't completly rebound untill 1500's -
Period: Jan 1, 1368 to
Ming Dynasty in China
Ming Dynasty was on of the greatest eras of orderly government.The dynasty lasted 276 years. -
Period: Jan 1, 1405 to Jan 1, 1433
Voyages of Zheng He
Traveled to Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa from 1405 to 1433.During the 14th century he gradually expanded chinese knowledge. -
May 30, 1431
Joan of Arc burned at the stake
An English soldier also constructed a small cross which she put in the front of her dress. After she died, the English raked back the coals to expose her. They then burned the body again to reduce the ashes (fun stuff right there) -
Jan 1, 1453
Ottomans conquer Constantinople
The battle took 7 weeks. The capturing for some historians marks the end of the Middle Ages -
Jan 1, 1455
Johannes Gutenberg--printing press
He invented the first printing press. This printing press also printed the first print of the bible -
Jan 1, 1492
1st Voyage of Columbus
He was in command of three ships: the Pinta, the Niña, and the Santa María. The Pinta was captained by Martín Alonso Pinzón and the Niña by Vicente Yañez Pinzón. -
Jan 1, 1492
Jews, Gypsies, and moors expelled from Spain
Most of them practiced their religion in secret but openly practiced christianity. For example, after a child was baptised, he might be taken home and washed with hot water to annul the sacrament of baptism. -
May 20, 1498
Da Gama lands in India
He rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and anchored at Malindi on the east coast of Africa. With the aid of an Indian merchant he met there, he then set off across the Indian Ocean. -
Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
Slave trade across Atlantic
transatlantic slave trade took place across the Atlantic Ocean from the 16th through to the 19th centuries. They were practically stacked ontop of each other like cups. (don't question my anaolgy) -
Period: Jan 1, 1501 to
Safavid Empire
migrated Turks and Mongolian tribes adopted the Persian customs and even language. the Persians had submerged themselves deeper in Islamic devotion and Sufism. -
Jan 1, 1502
Naming the New World
The new world was named after a person. was first coined by the Florentine explorer Amerigo Vespucci -
Jan 1, 1503
Da Vinci paints the 'Mona Lisa"
The medium was oil painting. The painting was done on poplar. -
Jan 1, 1508
Michelangelo begins painting Sistine Chapel
The ceiling is about 40 meters by 43 meters wide. All told there are more than 300 painted figures on the ceiling. -
Oct 31, 1517
Martin Luther posts 95 theses
He was annoyed with the church ways. Was written in latin so the general public couldnt read it -
Jan 1, 1519
Magellan starts his "sround the world" trip
He started off on that voyage, but he didn't live to see the end of it. He made a name for himself as an able sailor and especially on one voyage in which he saved the lives of many of his fellow sailors. -
Jan 1, 1526
Mughal Empire begins
The dynasty was founded by a Chagatai Turkic prince named Bābur. Turkic-Mongol origin that ruled most of northern India -
Jan 1, 1534
Henry VIII founds Angelican Church
The Anglican church was spread worldwide first by English colonization and then by English-speaking missionaries. The Anglican Church evolved as part of the Roman church -
Jan 1, 1537
Pizarro invades the Inca Empire
dies by strangulation at the hands of Francisco Pizarro's Spanish conquistadors. Atahuallpa was consolidating his rule when Pizarro and his 180 soldiers appeared. -
Jan 1, 1543
Copernicus publishes heliocentric theory
It contained seven basic assumptions. He continued gathering data for a more detailed work. -
Period: Jan 1, 1545 to Jan 1, 1563
Council of Trent
Prompted by the Protestant Reformation, it has been described as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation. -
Period: Jan 1, 1556 to
Philip II rules Spain
Philip was described by the Venetian ambassador Paolo Fagolo in 1563 as "slight of stature and round-faced, with pale blue eyes, somewhat prominent lip, and pink skin, but his overall appearance is very attractive." -
Jan 1, 1558
Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England
childless Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty. Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry VIII by second wife. -
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Age of Enlightenment
cultural movement of intellectuals beginning in late 17th-century Western Europe emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. It spread across Europe and to the United States, continuing to the end of the 18th century. -
Jamestown, colony in Virginia, founded
America’s first permanent English colony, in Virginia. 13 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth in Massachusett. -
Louis XIV becomes King if France
Louis began his personal rule of France in 1661 after the death of his chief minister.he became one of the most powerful French monarchs and consolidated a system of absolute monarchical rule. -
Qing Dynasty in China begins
It was preceded by the Ming dynasty and succeeded by the Republic of China. The Qing multi-cultural empire lasted almost three centuries and formed the territorial base for the modern Chinese state. -
Oliver Cromwell rules England
Parliament ran England but from Cromwell's point of view, it was not a system that worked effectively and England. He was the man who really pushed for the execution of Charles as he believed that Charles would never change his ways and that he would continue to be a source of trouble until he died -
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Peter I (The Great) becomes Czar
Peter was a six feet seven giant. Was proclaimed Tsar at the tender age of 10 -
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Catherine the Great rules Russia
most renowned and the longest-ruling female leader of Russia. Russia was amazing under her reign, growing larger and stronger than ever, and becoming recognized as one of the great powers of Europe. -
U.S Constitution is ratified
Rhode Island, which had rejected the Constitution in March 1788 by popular referendum. Those who favored ratification, the Federalists, fought back, convinced that rejection of the Constitution would result in anarchy and civil strife -
French Revolution begins
King Louis XVI needed money. His financial crisis forced the French monarch to reluctantly convene the Estates General in order to levy a new land tax that would hopefully solve his monetary woes -
Reign of Terror begins
The guillotine (called the "National Razor") became the symbol of the revolutionary cause, strengthened by a string of executions (my favorite form of execution) Terror's leaders exercised broad powers and used them to eliminate the internal and external enemies of the republic -
Napoleon becomes Emperor
Pope Pius VII handed Napoleon the crown that the 35-year-old conqueror of Europe placed on his own head. first Frenchman to hold the title of emperor in a thousand years -
Napoleon defeated at Waterloo
Took place in Belgium. 1815, marked the final defeat of French military leader and emperor Napoleon Bonaparte -
Tokugawa Shogunate ends
The turning points of the Bakumatsu were the Boshin War and the Battle of Toba-Fushimi, when pro-shogunate forces were defeated. Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy called sakoku and modernized from a feudal shogunate to the Meiji government. -
Thomas Hobbes writes Leviathan
The Leviathan is mentioned six times in the Tanakh. In Psalm 74 God is said to "break the heads of Leviathan in pieces" before giving his flesh to the people of the wilderness.
