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Period: 100 to
World History Megan Hoffman
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Mar 4, 1394
Prince Henry of Portugal is Born
Henry the Navigator, was an important figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and the Age of Discoveries in total. -
Feb 3, 1402
Yongle becomes Ming Emperor
The Yongle Emperor (2 May 1360 – 12 August 1424), formerly romanized as the Yung-lo or Yonglo Emperor, was the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty in China, reigning from 1402 to 1424. -
Feb 3, 1405
Zheng He captains his first voyage
Zheng He, formerly romanized as Cheng Ho, was 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 to 1433. -
Jan 10, 1408
Donatello creates his David statue
Donatello was commissioned to carve a statue of David. The commission came from the operai of the cathedral of Florence, who intended to decorate the buttresses of the tribunes of the cathedral with 12 statues of prophets. -
Jan 10, 1440
Johan Gutenberg invents the printing press
The Gutenberg press with its wooden and later metal movable type printing brought down the price of printed materials and made such materials available for the masses. -
Jan 10, 1453
The Hundred Years' War ends
The Hundred Years' War was a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of France for control of the French throne. -
Apr 6, 1453
Fall of Constantinople to the Turks
The capture of Constantinople marked the end of the Roman Empire, an imperial state which had lasted for nearly 1,500 years. -
Jan 3, 1488
B. Dias reaches Cape of Good Hope
ias departed circa August 1487, rounding the southernmost tip of Africa in January, 1488. The Portuguese (possibly Dias himself) named this point of land the Cape of Good Hope. -
Jun 7, 1497
Spain & Portugal agree to Treaty of Tordesillas
Treaty of Tordesillas agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at settling conflicts over lands newly discovered or explored by Christopher Columbus and other late 15th-century voyagers. -
Jul 3, 1497
Vasco da Gama lands in India
Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama becomes the first European to reach India via the Atlantic Ocean when he arrives at Calicut on the Malabar Coast. -
Jan 10, 1503
Leonardo Da Vinci starts the Mona Lisa
The Mona Lisa is a half-length portriat of Lisa Gheradini, so they say. It's the most popular portriat by anyone. -
Jul 10, 1508
Michelangelo paints the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
It took him a bit over four years, from July of 1508 to October of 1512. Pope Julius II asked him to paint the ceiling. -
Jan 10, 1509
Raphael creates School of Athens
It was part of Raphael's commission to decorate with frescoes the rooms now known as the Stanze di Raffaello, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. -
Oct 31, 1517
Martin Luther posts his 95 Thesis
The 33-year-old Martin Luther posted theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. -
Jan 10, 1532
Machiavelli writes The Prince
The descriptions within The Prince have the general theme of accepting that the aims of princes—such as glory and survival—can justify the use of immoral means to achieve those ends. -
May 19, 1536
Anne Boleyn is executed
Anne Boleyn was Queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of King Henry VIII and Marquess of Pembroke in her own right. -
Oct 12, 1537
Edward VI is born
Edward VI was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death. -
Apr 19, 1541
Ignatius of Loyola founds the Jesuit order
Ignatius of Loyola was a Spanish knight from a local Basque noble family, hermit, priest since 1537, and theologian, who founded the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). -
Jul 13, 1554
Mary I becomes Queen
As the fourth crowned monarch of the Tudor dynasty, Mary is remembered for her restoration of Roman Catholicism after the short-lived Protestant reign of her half-brother. -
Nov 17, 1558
Elizabeth I becomes Queen
Elizabeth I was crowned Queen by Owen Oglethorpe, bishop of Carlisle at Westminster Abbey, a little less than two months after the death of Mary I. -
English East India Company is founded
The East India Company originally chartered as the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies, and more properly called the Honourable East India Company, was an English and later British joint-stock company formed for pursuing trade with the East Indies but which ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent, North-West Frontier Province and Balochistan. -
Dutch East India Comanpy is founded
The Dutch East India Company was a chartered company when the States-General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out colonial activities in Asia -
William Shakspeare dies
The cause of Shakespeare's death is unknown, he died at 53 years old.
