World History

By loobenz
  • 1299

    Ottoman Empire founded

  • 1405

    Zheng He's seven treasure missions begin

  • 1415

    Prince Henry the Navigator's discoveries begin

    Canary Islands, Cape Verde, alternate route to India
  • 1420

    Forbidden City

  • 1433

    Zheng He's missions end

  • 1453

    Constantinople taken

  • 1460

    Prince Henry's missions end

  • 1494

    Treaty of Tordesillas

  • 1497

    Cabot disappeared

  • 1512

    Portuguese treaties with Moluccas

  • 1522

    Ibrahim Pasha dies

  • Newfoundland annexed

  • van Linschoten rounds the cape

  • British India Company chartered

  • Amboina massacre

  • Portuguese driven out of Malacca

  • Anglo-Dutch War

  • Portuguese driven out of Sri Lanka

  • Charles II and Catherine wed

  • Anglo-Dutch War

  • Anglo-Dutch War

  • Industrialism begins

  • Seven Years War begins

  • Seven Years War ends

  • Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote "Emile"

  • Anglo-Dutch War

  • French Revolution begins

    French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

  • Vincent Oge returns to San Domingo; is executed

  • Haitian Revolution begins

  • Mary Wollstonecraft wrote "A Vindication of the Rights of Women"

  • slave trade abolished

  • Mount Tambora erupts

  • "Year without a Summer"

  • Auspicious Incident

  • Period: to

    Doctrine of Lapse

  • Opium Wars begin

  • Mines Act in Great Britain

  • East India Company domination ends

  • Petition from British inhabitants of Calcutta to Parliament

  • Sepoy Rebellion

  • Queen Victoria puts India under Britain's rule

  • Mohammad Ali Khan arrested

    was undercover and scouting for the Indian army

  • Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of the Species"

  • Meiji Restoration begins in Japan

  • opening of the Suez Canal

  • French League of Women's Rights

  • Franco-Prussian War

  • France defeated by Prussia

  • English Married Women's Property Act

  • the term "eugenics" was coined by Francis Galton

  • United States obtains Pearl Harbor

  • Battle of Omdurman

  • Freud publishes "The Interpretation of Dreams"

  • King Kwet aPe arrested

  • revolt against Belgians

  • Period: to

    United States builds Panama Canal

  • Kwet aPe's life spared; surrender

  • Korea becomes a colony

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