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Aug 25, 1096
The crusades/First crusade
It was a war between Muslims and Christians. It lasted until 1291.
The Chhristians won. -
Aug 29, 1300
Renaissance begins
A new direction in art was one of the ways society began changing. Specialization increased meaning regions had to trade for the products they did not produce. City-States began to specialise. -
Sep 5, 1337
100 year war begins
It was between France and England. Robert the third convinced the current king Edward to start a war to reclaim france. Joan of Arc was an important part of France attacking England. -
Aug 25, 1347
Black death begins in europe
It was a bubonic plague that began in Asia. It wiped out a thrid of europeans. A lot of people lost faith. -
Sep 25, 1368
Ming Dynasty in China
Ruling dynasty in china for 276 years. The hongwu emperer was the ruler. They had a government type dynasty. -
Aug 27, 1400
Michealangelo begins painting Sistine Chapel
He is most famous for his artwork on the ceiling of the Sistine chapel. The ceiling has scenes from the Old Testament and the Bible. Many art historians consider it one of the greatest acheivments in the history of painting. -
Oct 10, 1405
Voyages of Zheng He
served as commander of the southern capital Nanjing. These voyages were long neglected in official Chinese histories but have become well known in China and abroad since the publication of Liang Qichao's Biography of Our Homeland's Great Navigator. -
Sep 3, 1431
Joan of Arc burned at the stake
She claimed the voice of god was telling her to take control of an army. She was burned at the stake. She tried to escaped but was imprisoned. -
Oct 10, 1453
Ottomans conquer constantinople
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 11, 1455
Johannes Gutenburg- printing press
He was the first to use movable type printing. He used oil based ink. Introduced the production of mass comunictation. -
Sep 15, 1492
First Voyage of Columbus
He was given the nickname Admiral of the ocean sea. He wanted to lead his own expidition. His discovery led to the widespread knowledge of a new continent. -
Oct 10, 1492
Jews, gypsies & moors expelled from spain
expulsion was proposed by Philip II’s Council of State as the only solution to the conflict between the communities, despite some concern about the harmful economic repercussions – the loss of Moorish craftsmanship and the shortage of agricultural manpower and expertise. -
Sep 25, 1494
Slave trade across atlantic
It was to discover new places for trade.They use africans as their slaves. They enslaved more than a million people. -
Oct 10, 1502
Safavid Empire
Considered the beginning of modern persian history. Despite their demise in 1736, the legacy that they left behind was the revival of Persia as an economic stronghold between East and West, the establishment of an efficient state and bureaucracy based upon "checks and balances -
Sep 9, 1503
Da vinci paints the mona lisa
He painted it to try and capture the complexity of the human spirit. He made her have a misterious smile. He was a very talented painter. -
Sep 19, 1503
Naming of the new world
Amerigo Vespucci is the one who is credited with coming up with the name. They named the Americas that. Columbus found it after the spanish explorers. -
Sep 9, 1519
Martin Luther posts 95 thesis
He thought selling indulgences was sinful. He contraadicted Catholic beliefs. The pope expelled him from the church. -
Oct 10, 1526
Mughal Empire begins
In the early 16th century, northern India, being then under mainly Muslim rulers, fell to the superior mobility and firepower of th The resulting Mughal Empire did not stamp out the local societies it came to rule, but rather balanced and pacified them through new administrative practices and diverse and inclusive ruling elites leading to more systematic, centralized, and uniform rule. -
Sep 23, 1532
Pizarro invades the inca empire
The spanish conquest was the cause of the collapse of the Inca empire. They were thought to be gods but were only there for the gold. The war was between Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro. -
Sep 30, 1536
Henry VIII founds Anglican Church
The name Anglican means of England. The Anglican chruch is seperate from the Roman church. It was created during the time of Elizabeth I. -
Sep 15, 1543
Copernicus publishes heliocentric theory
He was a catholic preist dedicated to astronomy. He was one of the first people to think the sun was at the center of the universe. He published his theory but many people didn't believe him. -
Oct 10, 1545
Council of Trent
The Council of Trent (Latin: Concilium Tridentinum), held between 1545 and 1563 in Trento and Bologna, northern Italy, was one of the Roman Catholic Church's most important ecumenical councils. -
Oct 3, 1558
Elizabeth I becomes queen of england
She opposed the french's presence. She was queen of england and ireland. She never had any children. -
Oct 3, 1581
Philip II rules spain
He was king of Naples and sicily. He was known as Philip the prudent. He reigned from 1581 to 1598. -
Jamestown, colony in Virginia, founded
Jamestown is where the british empire began. Established by Virginia company of London. William Allen owned the Jamestown island during the civil war. -
Magellan starts his "around the world" trip
He had five ships and 250 men. They reached the Philippines, where Magellan was killled in a fight against native people. 18 Survivors of the original fleet arrived in Spain. -
Thomas Hobbes writes Levithian
an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy. His 1651 book Leviathan established social contract theory, the foundation of most later Western political philosophy. -
Oliver Cromwell rules England
Oliver Cromwell remains one of our most famous characters in history. Parliment ruled England, but cromwell said the nation was suffering and as a result Cromwell, backed by the army, sent home MP's and he became the effective leader of England from 1663 to 1658. This is important because he helped organize armed forces, command campains in Ireland and Scotland -
Peter I (the great) becomes Czar
Czar was a latin word for emperer so he basically became emperor of Russia. Peter was late known as "Peter the Great" for his efforts to transform Russia into a modern state. He became czar at a young age. -
Louis XIV becomes king of France
He was known as Louis the Great he was a monarch of the House of Bourbon. He ruled as King of France and Navarre from 1643 until his death. His reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any monarch of a major country in European history. -
Catherine the great rules russia
Her rule is often called the golden age. The manifesto of freedom and liberty wss issued under her rule. She made the first state financed higher education institution for woman. -
French Revolution begins
Crops failed which led to a shortage of food. Mobs stormed the bastille and the attack brought the nation down a path that would eventually lead to the destruction of monarchy and the execution of Louis XVI -
U.S consitution 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. -
Reign of Terror begins
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 -
Napoleon 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 war the Napoleonic War that involved complex coalitions for and against him. -
Napolean defeated at Waterloo
Defeated by Duke Wellington. Took place in Belgium. He was Frenchh. -
Age of Enlightenment
a 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. -
Tokugawa Shogunate ends
last feudal Japanese military government which existed between 1603 and 1868. The heads of government were the shoguns,and each was a member of the Tokugawa clan -
Qing Dynasty in China begins
Last imperial dynasty in the world. Ruled from 1644 to 1912. Lasted almost three years and formed a territorial base for the modern chinese state.
