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Apr 3, 1299
Ottoman Dynasty
1299-1922
Empire that controled most of the middle east, north africa, and much of eastern Europe -
Apr 3, 1394
Prince Henry the Navigator
1394-1460
Portuguese prince who encouraged naval exploration and innovations -
Mar 31, 1400
Beginning of Portuguese Slave Trade
Portuguese slave trade began in the 1400's when Henry the navigator sailed to Africa and brought back African slaves with him -
Apr 3, 1451
reign of mehmed the conqueror
1451-1481
Ottoman sultan who brought an end to the byzantine emperor -
Apr 3, 1464
reign of sunni ali
1464-1492
first Emperor of the west African, Songhai Empire -
Apr 3, 1464
songhai empire
1464–1591
Songhai was one of the largest Islamic empires in history, located in western africa -
Apr 3, 1483
Martin Luther
1483-1546
Martin Luther started the protestant reformation with the 95 theses that e posted on the door of the wittenburg castle church door and founded the lutheran church -
Apr 3, 1488
Dias' voyage into Indian Ocean
Bartolemeu Dias sailed to the tip of africa and back to portugal.
named the tip of Africa the Cape of Storms -
Mar 28, 1492
Columbus's first voyage
Columbus asked for ships and funding for a voyage across the pacific to India from Isabella and landed on the island of hispaniola. -
Apr 3, 1494
Treaty of Tordesillas
Treaty that split the world between portugal and spain for colonizaion and exploration -
Apr 3, 1501
Saffavid Dynasty
1501-1736
the safavid was one of the most significant ruling dynasties of Persia who controlled all of the middle east except arabia -
Apr 3, 1509
John Calvin
1509-1564
John Calvin was an influential man during the protestant revolution. He founded the Calvinist church -
Apr 3, 1519
spanish conquest of mexico
1519-1521
Cortés defeated the Aztec empire with relative ease because the aztecs were dying of new diseases and feared the guns that the spanish had -
Apr 3, 1520
reign of suleiman the magnificent
1520-1566
10th and longest reigning sultan of the ottoman empire -
Apr 3, 1526
Mughal Dynasty
1526-1857
an empire that ruled over most of India and some of the middle east -
Apr 3, 1540
foundation of the society of jesus
Ignatius Loyola founded the society of jesus with permission from the papacy. They were devoted to converting people to catholicism -
Mar 31, 1545
Council of trent
1545-1563
The Catholic church moved to Trent to get away from the protestant heretics -
Apr 3, 1556
reign of Akbar
1556-1605
third ruler of the mughal dynasty -
Apr 3, 1564
Galileo Galilei
1564-1642
Galileo was an italian physicist, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher that had a large impact during the scientific revolution. -
Apr 3, 1572
reign of emperor wanli
1572-1620
He was the 13th ruler of the ming dynasty and had the longest reign of all the ming emperors. he slowly witnessed the decline of the ming dynasty -
Spanish armada
The spanish naval fleet that made them the strongest nation of their time -
Tokugawa Shogunate
1600-1868
the last feudal japanese military government, so basically the last empire of samurai -
30 years war
1618-1648
war fought in europe over religioun that pitted the protestant nations against the roman catholic ones -
John Locke
1632-1704
John Locke was an enlightenment thinker who thought that the people have a right to decide when the government is unjust -
Qing Dynasty
1644-1912 empire controling China, modern mongolia, and tibet -
peace of westphalia
a series of peace treaties ending the thirty years war -
seven years war
1754-1763
Great Britain competed with both France and Spain over trade and colonies -
British colonization of Australia
the Australian colony was built using the labor of British prisoners instead of slave labor. After the colony was built the prisoners stayed there -
The Haitian Revolution
1791-1804
a slave revolt in the French colony of Saint-Domingue
