World History Timeline

  • Period: Jan 1, 1450 to

    Age of Exploration

    A ltime that marks when discoveries were made because of the want to find riches and spices.
  • Oct 23, 1492

    Columbus discovers Americas

    Columbus sails over to the Americas. He landed in what is now present day bahamas.
  • Oct 23, 1496

    Columbus brings back Natives

    Columbus brought back Native froms the Americas back to Europe as slaves.
  • Oct 23, 1500

    Printing Press

    The Printing Press becomes invented, this leads to the spread of ideas
  • Period: Oct 23, 1500 to

    Columbian Exchange

    The exchange of goods, people, diseases, and plants
  • Period: Oct 23, 1500 to

    Early Modern Era

    post classical era
  • Oct 23, 1514

    Europeans in Asia

    The Portugeuse Reach Asia in formal embassy and pirates. The will laiter set up an empire in Asia
  • Oct 23, 1517

    Martine Luther, 95 Theses

    Martin Luther publishes his 95 Theses which marks the begining of the reformation
  • Period: Oct 23, 1517 to Oct 23, 1540

    Protestant Reformation

    A time when reformers questioned the challenged the Papal authority and questions how the church defined christian practice
  • Oct 23, 1519

    Magellan goes around the World

    Magellan is the first to sail around the world.
  • Oct 23, 1530

    Measles arive in the Americas

    Diseases arriving in the Americas caused a huge problem for the native because none of them were immune to the diseases.
  • Oct 23, 1534

    England becomes Angelican

    England breaks away from the Catholic Church and becomes Angelican under King Henry VIII.
  • Period: Oct 23, 1540 to Oct 23, 1565

    Catholic Reformation

    The Counter Reformation was in response to the Protestant Reformation beginning with the council of trent and ending with the thirty years war
  • Period: Oct 23, 1550 to

    Scientific Revolution

  • The Mali empire was defeated

    The Mali empire was deafeated my Sack of Niani.
  • Galileo proves solar-centred universe (1600s- 1700s)

    Galilieo discovers and proves that we live in a heliocentric universe.
  • Slaves in America

    Slaves from Africa were first brought to America in Virginia for taobacco plantations.
  • Qing Dynasty of China substituted the Ming Dynasty

    The Qing dynasty takesover the Ming dynasty by working for them and then overthrowing them.
  • Colony at the Cape of Good Hope

    Holland establishes a colony at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa
  • Period: to

    The Enlightenment

    thinkers question the authority of religion, many begin to believe that reason and scince is the way to solve problems
  • Moghul Empire in India

    Moghul Empire allows British East India Company to trade in India without paying duties
  • The Stem Engine

    James Watt invents the steam engine which marks the start of the Industrial Revolution.