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Prince Henry the Navigator. Born March 4, 1394; died November 13, 1460; he was the fourth son of John I, King of Portugal, by Queen Philippa, a daughter of John of Gaunt. In 1415 he commanded the expedition which captured Ceuta, Portugal's first oversea conquest
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Yonglo was the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty in China, reigning from 1402 to 1424.
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Between 1405 and 1433, the Ming government sponsored seven naval expeditions. The Yongle Emperor disregarding the Hongwu Emperor's expressed wishes designed them to establish a Chinese presence and impose imperial control over the Indian Ocean trade impress foreign peoples in the Indian Ocean basin
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Not known exactly when the movable type printing press was invented it appears around 1439 or 1440 it was very impotant and made it more simple to copy and make books, It also helped poor people have a few books instead of just rich people.
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The siege lasted from Frideay April 6 1453 till Tuesday May 29 1453 Marked the end of Bryzantine empire an empire that lasted over 1,100 years. Some mark the end of Middle ages by the fall of city and empire.
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Ended on October 19th 1453 when Bordeaux surrendered Calais as the last English posession in France it was not a single war that lasted for one hundred years but a sporatic succession of wars on the same theme.
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He was the first European to reacch india by sea, linking Europe and Asia for the first time by ocean route as well as the Atlantic and Indian oceans
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In 1488, Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias (c. 1450-1500) became the first European mariner to round the southern tip of Africa, opening the way for a sea route from Europe to Asia.
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December 31, 1491, in Saint-Malo, Brittany, France, and was sent by King Francis I to the New World in search of riches and a new route to Asia in 1534. His exploration of the St. Lawrence River allowed France to lay claim to lands that would become Canada.
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The Granada War was a series of military campaigns between 1482 and 1492, during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs Isabella and Ferdinandagainst the Nasrid dynasty's Emirate of Granada. It ended with the defeat of Granada and its annexation by Castile, ending all Islamic rule on the Iberian peninsula
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Columbus proposal to reach the East Indies by sailing west eventually received the support of the Spanish Crown, which saw in it a chance to enter the spice trade with Asia through a new westward route. During his first voyage in 1492 instead of reaching Japan as he had intended Columbus landed in a New World,
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Agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at settling conflicts over lands newly discovered or explored by Christopher Columbus and other late 15th-century voyagers
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A letter published in 1504 purports to be an account by Vespucci, written to Soderini, of a lengthy visit to the New World, leaving Spain in May 1497 and returning in October 1498. However, modern scholars have doubted that this voyage took place, and consider this letter a forgery.
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After studing planetary movements for more than 25 years, Copernicus reasoned that indeed the stars, the earth , and the other planets revolved around the sun.
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When Spain expelled the Jews and moors around 1500 it lost many valuable artisans and businesspeople In addition spaind nobles did not have to pay taxes
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David is amasterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created between 1501 and 1504 by Italian Sculptor,painter is a 14.2ft, 17.0ft with the base marble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the Biblicaal her David. A favored subject in art of Florence.
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Believed to have been painted between 1503 and 1506 although he may hace continued working on it as late as 1517. This painting is thought to be a porterate of Lisa Gherardini. This painting is the best known, the most visited, the most writtin about and sung about.The most parodied world of art in the world.
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was painted between 1508 and 1512 it is a cornerstone work of High Renaissance art. Central to the ceiling decoration are nine scenes from the Book of Genesis of which The Creation Of Adam is the best known, having an iconic standing equalled to the Mona Lisa.
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It was painted between 1509 and 1511 as a part of Raphael's commission to decorate with frescoes the rooms now known as stanze di Raffaello. The school of Athens, representing Philosophy, was probably the second painting to be finished there.
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It is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat. From correspondence a version appears to have been distribute in 1513 using a latin title. However the printed version was not published until 1532 five years after his death.
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According to university custom on october 31 1517, Luther posted the ninety five thesis which he has composed in Latin on the door of the church in Wittenburg. They centered it on the pratius within the catholic chrch regarding batism and absolution. The theses reject the validity of indulgences. They also view with ggreat cynicisly the practice of indulgences being sold. All saints in Wittenberg, saxony in the rising Empire, where the Nintey Five theses famously appeared.
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In 1518 Velázquez put him in command of an expedition to explore and secure the interior of Mexico for colonization. At the last minute Velázquez and Cortés, he changed his mind and revoked his charter. Cortés ignored the orders and went ahead anyway, in February 1519, in an act of open mutiny.
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The earliest known slave revolt in the New World took place here in 1522, but a much greater uprising was yet to come. The modern nation of Haiti, which now shares this island with the Dominican Republic, owes its existence to the most successful African slave rebellion in history.
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During the Spanish conquest the Spaniard Francisco Pizarro captured Atahualpa and used him to control the Inca Empire. the Spanish executed Atahualpa, effectively ending the empire. Although a succession of several emperors, who led the Inca resistance against the invading Spaniards, claimed the title of Sapa Inca the empire began to disintegrate after Atahualpa's death.
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Ivan IV called Ivan the terrible came to throne in 1533 when he was only threee years old
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Was queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of king Henery VII and Marquess of Pembroke in her own wife. Henery's marriage to Anne, and her subsequence execution made her key figure in the political and religious uphequal that was the start of the English Reformation. She was accused of adultery, incest and withchcraft therefore she was beheaded.
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Was born on october 12 1537 was king of England and Ireland from january 28 1547 until his death. HE was crowned on Febuary 20 at the age of nkine. He was the on of HeneryVII and Hane Seymour. Edward was the third monarch of the Tudor dynasty and Englands first monarch raised as a prtestant. During his real was governed bu Regency council he never reached majurity.
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Was spanish knight from the local Basque noble family heruit, preist since 1537 and the theologian who founded the society of Jesus and on April 19 1541, because first superior general Ignatium emerged as a religious leader during the counter-Reformation. Loyola's devotion to the Catholic Church was characterized by absolute coedence to the pope.
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Was queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death. Her executuion of Protestants caused her opponsnts to give her the sobriquwt "bloody mary" . She was only child of Henery VII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon who survived to adulthood. Her younger half brother Edward VI son of Henery and Jane once Hery died in 1553. Mary got the crown after assembled a force in East Aglia and deposed Jane who was going to get the crown.
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Was queen of Englasn and Ireland from November 17 1558 until her death. Sometimes called the Virgin Queen , Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, the childless Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarchy of the Tudor dynesty. Elizabeth was daughter of Henery VII by second wife Anne Boleyn
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between 1562 and 1598 huguenots and catholics fought eight religious wars
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In 1580 the king of Portugal died without an heir because Philip was the kings nephew he seized the Portuguese kingdom
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It was an English joint-stock company formed to trade with the East Indies but ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent Qing Dynasty China, North-West Frontier Province and Balochistan.
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It was a chartered company established in 1602 when the States it was granted a 21-year monopoly to carry out trade activities in Asia. It is often considered to have been the first multinational corporation in the world
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The peace was short-lived soon to be replaced by long war after the peace of Augsburg the catholic and lutheran pronces of Germany watched each other suspotcuously each religion triedj to gain followers
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Hudson wanted to press on to the west, but most of his crew mutinied. The mutineers cast Hudson, his son and 7 others adrift; the Hudsons, and those cast off at their side, were never seen again.
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April 23, 1616 statford upon Avon United Kingdom nobody knows why or how he died he is known for his writings and poetry one that is popular to his writing Romeo and Juliet. He died at the age of 52 and his death will forever be a mystery.
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Louis was a weak king but in 1624 he appointed a strong minister who made up for all of Louis's weaknesses
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In 1632 he published Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World System this book presented the ideas of noth Cpernicus and Ptolemy, but it clearly showed that Falilleo supported the Cpernican theory
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The dutch has the largest fleet of ships in the world perhaps 4,800 ships in 1636 gradually the Dutch replaced the Italians as the bankers of Europe
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Charles offended Puritains by upholding church ritual and a formal prayer book in assition in 1637 charles tried to force the presbyterian scots to accept a verson of the anglican prayer book
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Nieuw Amsterdam was New York from 1664 to 1673, but in that year it became Dutch once more, this time under the name Nieuw Oranje, `New Orange.' That was in honor of the Dutch Prince of Orange
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Thomas Hobbes expressed his views in a work called leviathan. The horrors of the English Civil War convinced him that all humand were natually selfish and wicked.
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When prince charles entered London in d1660 crowds shouted joyfully and bells rang. on this note of celebration the reiggn of Charles II began
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April 9, 1682 La Salle claimed the Mississippi River valley for the French king, Louis XIV, naming the territory Louisiana in his honor.
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In 1687 Newton published his ideas in work called Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy-- one of the most important scientific books ever written the univer he described was like a giant clock.
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After 1688 no British monarch could rule without consent of Parliment At the same time Parliament could not rule without the consent of the monarch. If the two disagreed government came to a standstill
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Like AUstria Prussia rose to power in the late 1600s like the hapsburg of Austria Prussia ruling family the Hohenzollerns also had ambitions
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He published his ideas in 1690 two years after the Gloroious Revolution his book two Treatied on Government served to ustify the overthrow of James ii Lockes theory had a deep influence on modern political thinking.
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however in 1696 Peter became the sole ruler of Russia. He is known to history as Peter The Great because he was one of Russia's greatest reformers.
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In 170he began building a new city on swedish lands occupied by Russian troops
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In 1714 the Dutch person Gabriel Fahrenheit made the fistr thermometer to use mercury in glass showed water freezing at 32 but someone else wanted some of the spot light so in 1742 celius created a different scale that showed celcius and the water freezes at 0 what a silly guy
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Louis last years were more sad than glorious. Realizing that his wars has ruined france he regretted the suffering he has brought to his people he died in bed in 1715
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In 1734 fearing another unpleaseant jail term voltaire fled to paris he was exvied to england for two years there coltaire came to admire the enflish government much more than his own.
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Fred II the king of Prussia from 1740-1786 once wrote to voltaire I must enghten my people cultivate their manners and morals and make themas happy as hyman beings can be or as happy as the means at my disposal permit
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His idea however became a part of his famous bbok on spirit of laws 1748 in his book he proposed that sparation of powers would keepany individual group from gaining total power
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The Seven Years War, a global conflict known in America as the French and Indian War, officially begins when England declares war on France. However, fighting and skirmishes between England and France had been going on in North America for years.
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Soon everyy great European power was involved with the war fought in Europe India and Noth America the war lasted until 1763
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MOzart was a giftedchild who started composingmusic at the age of fice andgave concepts throughout europe as a youth at 12 he wrot his fist opera and composed it the name of it was Don Giovanni
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hER THINKING ABOUT ENLIGNTENED IDEAS CHANGED AFTER A MASSIVE UPRISING IN SERS IN 17673
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THis was a boycott to protest an import tax on tea Adams facored independencefrom britain he organixed a raid against three British ships in Boston harbor
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British soliders and American militiamen exchange gunfire on the village freen in LExington Masssachusetts the fighting spread to nearby concord
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The Declaration of Independence wasn't signed on July 4, 1776. On July 1, 1776, the Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia, and on the following day 12 of the 13 colonies voted in favor of Richard Henry Lee's motion for independence.
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Jose ruled Austria from 1780 to 1790 he introduced legal refirms and freedom of the press he also supported freedom of worship even for protestand orthodaox chistians and jews jo abolished serdom and ordered thatt peasants be paid for their labor with cash
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The delegates signed the new Constitution on this day in order to become the law however the Constitution required approval by conventions in at least nine out of the thirteen states
