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May 23, 1279
Yuan Dynasty
The Song Dynasty fell to the Moghuls in 1279 beginning the Yuan Dynasty. -
May 22, 1368
Ming Dynasty
The Ming Dynasty booted out the last of the Mongul rulers in China. -
May 21, 1492
Columbus's Voyage
He originally intended to find a different route to India and ended up discovering the 'New World.' -
Jan 1, 1497
Vasco da Gama
He rounded the Cape of Good Hope, explored the east African kingdoms, and then went all the way to India, where he established trade relations. -
Jan 1, 1500
Amerigo Vespucci
He explored South America on several trips around 1500; realized that the continent was huge and not part of Asia; America was named for him. -
May 21, 1513
Ponce de Leon
He explored Florida for Spain in search of the fountain of youth. -
Jan 1, 1517
Martin Luther
German monk who wanted to reform the church and ended up creating his own denomination. -
May 21, 1519
Ferdinand Magellan
In 1519, he sailed around the tip of South America to the Pacific Ocean for Portugal. He made it as far as the Philippines, where he died; his crew continued, however, and became the first to circumnavigate the globe. -
May 22, 1534
Act of Supremacy
King Henry VIII nullified the pope's authority in England and placed himself as head of the Church of England. -
Jan 1, 1545
Council of Trent
A group of church officials who held a series of meetings known as the Council of Trent to direct the counter-reformation, starting in 1545 to 1563. -
May 22, 1555
Peace of Augsburg
It was intended to bring an end to the constant conflicts between Catholics and Protestants during the Reformation and Counter- Reformation. -
Tokugawa Shogunate
A strict and rigid government established by Tokugawa Ieyasu that ruled Japan until 1868. -
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World
Written by Galileo in Italian so that a wide audience could read it. -
Sir Isaac Newton
He invented Calculous and developed law of gravity in his book The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. -
Declaratoin of Independance
Congress wrote the Declaration of Indeprendance and sent it to Britain. -
Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin allowing massive amounts of cotten to be processed quickly. -
Steamship
Robert Fulton invented the first steamship in 1807 soon to be followed by George Stephenson's invention of the the steam-powered locamotive. -
Telegraph
Invented by Samuel Morse. It allowed people to communicate across long distances within seconds. -
Opium War
The first Opium War started in 1839 to 1842 over a British and Chinese dispute over the sale of opium. -
The Communist Manifesto
Carl Marx and Freidrich Engels wrote that the working class would eventually revolt and take control of the means of production. -
US in WW1
The US enters WW1 on the allies side in 1917. -
Great Depression
The US stock market crashed in October 1929, known as the Great Depression. -
Chancellor
In 1933, Hitler became chancellor, or leader of the Reichstag, which is the Weimer Republic's elected body. -
WW2
WW2 officially began in 1939 but had disputes leading to the war right after the end of WW1. -
T'ang Dynasty
The T'ang Dynasty began in 618 under Emperor Xuangzong. They exppanded their empire into parts of Manchuria, Mongolia, Tibet, and Korea.
