World History II Timeline

  • Period: Jan 1, 1350 to Jan 1, 1550

    The Renaissance

    The Renaissance was a time of rebirth for Europe with many new ideas and inventions coming
  • Nov 9, 1419

    Prince Henry’s School founded

  • Apr 6, 1453

    The fall of Constantinople

    The fall of Constantinople
    This started the rising of the Ottoman Empire
  • Period: Jan 1, 1481 to Jan 1, 1566

    Peak of Ottoman empire

    At this point, The Ottoman empire controled a lot of land and were very wealthy
  • Aug 3, 1492

    Chrisopher Columbus finds the new world

    Chrisopher Columbus finds the new world
    Chrisopher Columbus found the new world which led to the columbian exchange
  • Oct 15, 1492

    Tobbaco leaves introduced

    Tobbaco became a big product in europe.
  • Jun 7, 1494

    Treaty of Tordesillas

    Treaty of Tordesillas
    Divided the land of the spaniards and Portugese in south america
  • Jan 1, 1509

    Praise of Folly Written

    Challanged Church ideas
  • Jan 1, 1517

    Mona Lisa Finished

    Mona Lisa Finished
    One of the most famous paintings by leonardo da vinci was finished.
  • Oct 31, 1517

    95 Thesis posted

    Told everything wrong with the church
  • Period: Sep 20, 1519 to Sep 1, 1522

    Magellan circumnavigates the globe

    Magellan sets out to sail around the world and dies in portugal while saling.
  • Nov 17, 1521

    Cortes conquers the Aztecs

    Cortes conquers the Aztecs
    Cortes ends the Aztec empire
  • Jan 1, 1526

    Mughal empire start

    Mughal empire start
    This was the start of a major indian empire in the 1500s
  • Period: Jan 1, 1532 to Jan 1, 1572

    Pizarro conqueres the Incans

    The Incan Empire is ended because of him.
  • Jan 1, 1543

    Copernicus’ Heliocentric theory published

    This idea said that the earth revolved around the sun and it challanged the church
  • Period: Jan 1, 1545 to Jan 1, 1563

    Council of Trent

    Cathlocs met up on how to stop the protestant reformation
  • Galileo’s first telescope

    With the telescope, we could see the stars
  • Period: to

    30 years war

    The 30 years war was a war between Protestans and cathlocs
  • Discourse on Method

    Challanged church and told people to think with proof
  • Taj mahal created

    Taj mahal created
    One of the greatest feats in architecture is created
  • William Harvey discovered circulation of blood

    This is the start to help us with anatomy
  • Newton’s Laws of gravity

    Laws of gravity created by newton and building blocks for physics