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Aug 25, 1096
The Crusades fought for holy land
the crusades captured Jerusalum . A war between christians and muslums for holy land. -
Sep 9, 1300
Renaissance Begins
the renaissance arose in iItaly. it increased trade with asia, growth of large wealthy city-states, renewed interest in the learning of greek and rome, the rise of rich and powerful merchants, increased desire for scientific and technical knowledge, and desire to beautify cities. -
Aug 29, 1337
100 Years War Begins
a war from 1337 to 1453 between france and spain. france won in the end. -
Aug 25, 1347
Black Death Begins in Europe
the black death killed about 1/3 of the population. the most devestating disease in history. -
Sep 23, 1368
Ming Dynasty in China
Ming Dynasty ruled for over 200 years. it was known as one of the greatest orderly government and social stability in human history. 1368-1644 -
Sep 29, 1405
Voyages of Zheng He
Zheng He was a a Hui court eunuch, mariner, explorer, diplomat, and fleet admiral during China's early Ming Dynasty. Zheng commanded expeditionary voyages to Southeast Asia, South Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa from 1405-1433 -
Aug 27, 1431
Joan Of Arc Burned at the stake
she lead the french to war. she was very sucessful. she becomes a saint after shes burned -
Oct 9, 1453
Ottomans conquer Constantinople
The Fall of Constantinople was the capture of the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire by an invading army of the Ottoman Empire on Tuesday, 29 May 1453. The Ottomans were commanded by 21-year-old Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, who defeated an army commanded by Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos. -
Sep 9, 1455
Johannes Guterberg and the Printing Press
Johannes Gutenberg cast letters of the alphabet onto metal plates and locked those plates into a wooden press. -
Sep 23, 1460
Da Gama lands in India
Vasco Da Gama is the 1st Count of Vidigueira, was a Portuguese explorer. -
Sep 19, 1492
1st voyage of Columbus
he departed spain on Auguest 3rd, and Rodrigo de Triana first saw land on October 12th. -
Oct 9, 1492
Jews, Gypsies & Moors expelled from spain
Moorish Kingdom of Granada surrendered to Ferdinand V and Isabella, and the final Muslim expulsion did not take place until over a century later, between 1609 and 1614. This means that there was a large Moorish population in Spain half a millennium after the high point of Andalusian culture in the eleventh century. -
Oct 9, 1502
Safavid Empire
The Safavid dynasty was one of the most significant ruling dynasties of Persia and is often considered the beginning of modern Persian history. They ruled one of the greatest Persian empires after the Muslim conquest of Persia and established the Twelver school of Shi'a Islam as the official religion of their empire, marking one of the most important turning points in Muslim history. -
Sep 3, 1503
Leonardo Da Vinci Paints Mona Lisa
he was a highly talanted person with the skills of a painter, writer, inventor, architech, engineer, mathematicion, musician, and philospher . -
Sep 11, 1508
Michaelango begins painting Sistine Chapel
the painting of the sistine chapel was painted between 1508 and 1512. it's a work of High Renaissance art. -
Sep 25, 1509
Henry VIII found the Angelican Church
Henry created the Angelican Church. They didn't grant the divorce he wanted. -
Sep 5, 1517
Martin Luthar posts 95 theses
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Sep 19, 1519
Magellan Starts his "around the world" trip
Him and his Spanish crew are the 1st crew to go around the world. -
Oct 15, 1526
Mughal Empire Begins
A Muslim militarist empire that over-ran the Indian sub-continent for about 300 years from 1526 to 1857. Most of the great architectural legacy in India was created by the Moguls. The Taj Mahal is one of the most famous, dating from about 1640. -
Sep 23, 1533
Pizarro Invades the Inca Empire
Atahuallpa, the 13th and last emperors of the Incas dies by the hand of Francisco Pizarro. -
Sep 17, 1543
Nicolaus Copernicus
He studied about the earth, an in whats around the earth, where is the universe, the distance between the Earth and Sun, Etc. -
Oct 13, 1545
Council of Trent
The Council of Trent held between 1545 and 1563 in Trento and Bologna, northern Italy, was one of the Roman Catholic Church's most important ecumenical councils. Prompted by the Protestant Reformation, it has been described as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation. -
Sep 29, 1556
Philip II rules Spain
Philip II ruled spain in 1556. He was married with Queen Mary I, and he was also Prince Consort of England and Ireleand. -
Sep 29, 1558
Elizabeth I became Queen of England
Elizabeth I becaome queen of england from 1558 to her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, and Good Queen Bess. -
naming of the "new world"
in the early 1600s, the new world was one of the names for western hemisphere -
Slave trade across Atlantic
a lot of african americans we're slaves and sold across the atlantic in the 1600s. it took place from the 16th century to the 18th century -
Jamestown, Colony in Virginia, Founded
The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. William Kelso says Jamestown "is where the British Empire began,... this was the first colony in the British Empire." -
Qing Dynasty in China begins
it was the last impiral dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912. -
Thomas Hobbes writes Leviathan
Leviathan was written during the English Civil War; much of the book is occupied with demonstrating the necessity of a strong central authority to avoid the evil of discord and civil war. His work concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory. -
Oliver Cromwell rules England
Oliver Cromwell remains one of our most famous characters in history. From 1649 to 1653, Parliament ran England but from Cromwell's point of view, it was not a system that worked effectively and England, as a nation was suffering. -
Peter I (The Great) Becomes Czar.
Peter became the King of Russia in 1682. Everyone looked up to him as a leader of Russia. He later died in 1725. -
Age of Enlightment
The Age of Enlightment was a cultural movement of intellectuals beginning in late 17th-century Europe emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. -
Catherine the Great rules Russia
She is the most renowned and the longest-ruling female leader of Russia, reigning from 9 July 1762 until her death in 1796 at the age of 67. She was born in Stettin, Pomerania, Prussia. -
Louis XVI becomes King of France
King of France and Navarre from 1774 until 1791, after which he was subsequently King of the French from 1791 to 1792, when he was executed during the French Revolution. -
U.S Constitution is ratified
When a bill of rights was proposed in Congress in 1789, North Carolina ratified the Constitution. Finally, Rhode Island, which had rejected the Constitution in March 1788 by popular referendum, called a ratifying convention in 1790 as specified by the Constitutional Convention. -
French Revolution Begins
The French Revolution was a period of radical social and political crisis in France from 1789 to 1799 that profoundly affected French and modern history, marking the decline of powerful monarchies and churches and the rise of democracy and nationalism. The war lasted for about 10 Years. -
Region of Terror begins
The Reign of Terror also known as The Terror was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution". The death toll ranged in the tens of thousands, with 16,594 executed by guillotine (2,639 in Paris) and another 25,000 in summary executions across France. -
Napolean becomes Emperor
He took power in a coup d'état in 1799 and installed himself as First Consul. In 1804 he made himself emperor of the French people. He fought a series of wars —the Napoleonic Wars—that involved complex coalitions for and against him. -
Napolean Defeated
Napolean has been defeated by the french in 1815 -
Tokugawa Shogunate Ends
In January 1868, they attempted a coup d'etat to overthrow the newly throned Shogun Tokugawa Keiki. After a short period of fighting, Emperor Meiji took supreme control of the country. During his reign from 1867 to 1912, Japan was completely transformed and it became a world power.
