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Aug 25, 1095
crusades 1st crusade
a war between the christians and the muslims over the holy land. was fought from 1096-1291. the crusades were fought for almost 200 years naming it the 100 years war. -
Sep 3, 1337
100 years war
The 100 years war started in May 1337 when King Philip VI of France attempted to confiscate the English territories. the war is impotant because it was a difining point for england and france -
Aug 27, 1347
black death
the black death is a disease that spread in europe. it killed killed 1/3 of the world population at that time. it is imortant because it is the most well known plague in history. -
Sep 3, 1350
the renissanece begins
The rennicaunce was a cultural movement that spanned the period roughly from the 14th to the 17th century. It began right after the Black Death had ravaged the country, killing from a third to half the population.The Renaissanceis importnant because it produced an outstanding number of artists and painters, including the well known Leonardo da Vinci, the Italian painter, journalist, and engineer -
Oct 23, 1368
ming dynasty in china
The Ming dynasty, also Empire of the Great Ming, was the ruling dynasty of China for 276 years (1368–1644) following the collapse of the Mongols. peasents banded together and defeated the mongols with the first ever gun. although unacurate they had great strength in numbers and easily deafeated the mongols -
Sep 29, 1405
zheng he
1405-1493 Zheng He was the son of a ḥājjī, a Muslim who had made the pilgrimage to Mecca. His family claimed descent from an early Mongol governor of Yunnan province in southwestern China as well as from King Muḥammad of Bukhara. The family name Ma was derived from the Chinese rendition of Muḥammad. In 1381, when he was about 10 years old, Yunnan, the last Mongol hold in China -
May 30, 1431
joan of arc
she was a girl who faught in a war. she was captured by england while fighting against them. they put her to trial found her guity then set her on fire while she was stapped to a wood stake in the ground -
Sep 15, 1439
johaness gutenburg printing press
Gutenberg was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe. he created the printing press in the year 1439 and it was the first interchangable printing press ever seen. it introduced a who new way to read books like the bible or other popular books in the century -
Oct 1, 1453
ottomans conquer constantinople
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Oct 23, 1460
da gama reaches indoa
da gama was a Portuguese explorer. He was the first European to reach India by sea. This discovery was significant and alowed Portuguese to establish a long-lasting colonial empire in Asia. -
Sep 19, 1492
christopher columbus' first voyage
Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer, born in the Republic of Genoa. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic -
Oct 3, 1501
slave trade across the atlantic
The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade took place across the Atlantic Ocean from the 16th through to the 19th centuries. The vast majority of those enslaved that were transported to the New World, many on the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage, were West Africans from the central and western parts of the continent sold by West Africans to Western European slave traders, -
Sep 5, 1503
da vinci paints the mona lisa
when the rennisaunce happened people lived in a culture that is so saturated with images. it may be difficult to imagine a time when only the wealthiest people had their likeness captured. -
Oct 23, 1504
henery the 8th found angelican church
The early English Reformation created an Anglican Church.The leader of the Reformation inEngland was not a dissenting priest but rather the reigning monarch, HenryVIII . -
Sep 29, 1507
nameing of the new world
when columbus landed in america he thought he was in india. so at first he named it the west indies. but after a while of people saying wait this is not the west idies they named it after amerigo but at that time all boats and lands discovered had the name of a women so a guy named vespuchi changed the name to america -
Aug 29, 1512
michelangelo begins painting the sistein chapel
michelangelo began painting the sistein chapel in the year 1512 . he was talented and spent most of the time painting upsidedown. this is important because it was a big part of the renasince -
Sep 5, 1517
martin luther posts 95 theses
Luther d nailed a copy of his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle church. Pope Leo X issued a rebuttal to Luther's 95 Theses, a papal encyclical titled Exsurge Domine. This document.It is important because it helped start a little movement called the Protestant Reformation. -
Sep 29, 1519
migellan starts his "around the world" trip
Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese sailor. He wanted to try to reach south-east Asia. we was going there to find spices and treasure. He left Spain in 1519 with five ships and about 260 men. At first he did not tell his men where they were going because he thought they would be too frightened to obey him. -
Oct 23, 1532
pizzaro invades th incan empire
The Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire was one of the most important campaigns in the Spanish colonization of the Americas.fter years of preliminary exploration and military skirmishes, 168 Spanish soldiers under Francisco Pizarro took over the incan empire and leaving a diease that devistated the population -
Oct 23, 1534
elizabeth 1 is the queen of england
the childless Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry VIII by second wife, Anne Boleyn, who was executed two and a half years after Elizabeth's birth. anne bolyn was a cheater. Anne's marriage to Henry VIII was annulled, and Elizabeth was declared illegitimate. she was the final child to rule and was the best ruler of all of henery the 8th chileren -
Sep 25, 1543
copernicus publishes heliocentric theory
Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at its center. -
Oct 23, 1545
phillip II rules spain
Philip was born in the Spanish capital of Valladolid. he was the king of france. he was a prettyt cool king -
qing dynasty in china begins
the qing dynasty was the last imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912. It was preceded by the Ming dynasty and succeeded by the Republic of China. he Qing multi-cultural empire lasted almost three centuries and formed the territorial base for the modern Chinese state. -
peter the great
peter the great ruled the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian Empire from 1682 until his death. jointly ruling before 1696 with his half-brother. Through a number of successful wars he expanded the Tsardom into a much larger empire that became a major European power. -
age of enlightenment
The Age of Enlightenment, also called the “Age of Reason” by Thomas Paine, is generally thought to have started in the 17th century. It developed from a number of sources of “new” ideas. -
napolian defeated @ waterloo
At the Battle of Ligny, on June 16, Napoleon defeated the Prussians under the command of Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher (1742-1819). However, the French were unable to totally destroy the Prussian army. The Battle of Waterloo. -
catherine the great
catherine the great was the most renowned and the longest-ruling female leader of Russia, reigning from 1762 until her death in 1796 at the age of 67. Her reign was called Russia's golden age. -
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. It had been 175 years since the last meeting of this deliberative body that included representatives of three -
louis the XIV becomes kind of france
Louis XIV was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of France and Navarre from 1643 until his death.[1] His reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any monarch of a major country in European history. -
oliver cromwell
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. -
jamestown founded
Some 100 English colonists arrive along the west bank of the James River in Virginia to found Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America. Dispatched from England by the London Company, the colonists had sailed across the Atlantic aboard the Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery.
