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Jan 1, 1453
Ottomans capture Constantiniple
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Jan 1, 1488
Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope
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Jan 1, 1492
Columbus sailed to Hispaniola/Reconquista of Spain
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Jan 1, 1502
First slaves to Caribbean
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Jan 1, 1517
Martin Luther/ 95 Theses
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Jan 1, 1521
Cortez conquered the Aztecs
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Jan 1, 1533
Pizarro toppled the Inca
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Jan 1, 1545
Discovery of silver at Potosi
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Jan 1, 1571
Battle of Lepanto- naval defeat of Ottomans
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Defeat of the Spanish Armada
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Battle of Sekigahara- beginning of Tokugawa shogunate
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Founding of Jamestown (First slaves there in 1619)
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30 Years War (1648)
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Unsuccessful Otto Siege of Vienna
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Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights
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7 Years war/French and Indian War
The war went from 1756-1763 -
American Revolution/Smith writes Wealth of Nations
A battlews broke out in the U.S. -
French Revolution
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Haitian Independence
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Metternich hosts Congress of Vienna
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1st Opium War
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European Revolution/Marx & Engels write Communist Manifesto
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Commodore Perru opens Japan
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Sepoy Mutiny
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End of Russian serfdom /Italian unification
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Emancipation Proclamation issued in U.S.
The president of the united states passed an amendment stating that all colored people are free people. -
German Unification
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Berlin Conference
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Spanish-America War
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Boer War
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Russo-Japanese war
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Mexican Revolution/1911- Chinese Revolution
The war went from 1910 through 1920.
