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May 29, 1453
Ottomans conquer Constantinople
The Ottoman Empire, and Islamic empire, conquered Constantinople and took over trade operations in the Middle East. This empire would spread throughout the Middle East and North Africa until 1919. -
Nov 17, 1558
Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England
She was sometimes called the Virgin Queen, but Queen Elizabeth was Queen of England and Ireland from November 17, 1558 until her death. -
England defeats the Spanish Armada
This was a Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia with the purpose of escorting an army from Flanders to invade England. -
Tokugawa Shogunate
Tokugawa clan takes over imperial Japan and establishes itself as the Shogun. They establish the capital at Kyoto and rude until 1857. -
The Thirty Years War
The Thirty Years War was one of the most longest and destructive conflicts in European religious war. Not only was it the longest it was the deadliest. This war ended in 1648. -
The English Civil War
This War was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists over, principally, the manner of England's government. -
Manchus found the Qing Dynasty in China
The Qing multi-cultural empire lasted almost three centuries and then formed the territorial base for modern Chinese state. -
Peter the Great becomes Czar of Russia
Peter the Great ruled jointly with his brother Ivan V from 1682, when Ivan died in 1696, Peter was officially declared Sovereign of all Russia. -
The Industrial Revolution (Jethro Tull, Eli Whitney, James Hargreaves, James Watt, Richard Trevithick)
The Industrial Revolution is the name given the movement in which machines changed people's way of life as well as their methods of manufacture. -
Catherine the Great Becomes Czarina of Russia
She led her country into the political and culture life of Europe. Also finishing the work that was started by Peter the Great. -
The British colonies of North America declare their independence
Great Britain loses their number one colony. -
The French Revolution
The French Revolution is a period in the History of France, in which the monarchy was overthrown and radical restructing was forced upon the Roman Catholic Church. -
The Napoleonic Age
Almost took over Europe. -
Mexico declares its independence from Spain
Napoleons occupation of Spain led to the outbreaks of revolts all across Spanish America. -
The Great Reform Bill of 1832
This extended all voting rights to citizens. -
The Opium Wars
The Opium Wars were two wars in the mid-19th century involving Anglo-Chinese disputes over British trade in China and China's sovereignty. -
The Great Potato Famine
The Great Potato Famine was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852. -
The Unification of Italy
The Unification of Italy was the political and social movement that consolidated different states of the Italian peninsula into the single state of the Kingdom of Italy in the 19th century. -
Karl Marx and Frederic Engels publish The Communist Manifesto
Frederic was a German author who was most known for his work with Karl Marx. This was arguably the most influential in history–proclaimed that “the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles” -
The Taiping Rebellion
The Taiping Rebellion was a massive rebellion or civil war in China that lasted from 1850 to 1864 fought between the established Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the millenarian movement of the Heavenly Kingdom of Peace. -
The British Colonization of India
India was the jewel in the crown of the British Empire, as well as spices, jewels and textiles, India had a huge population. -
Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species
Charles Darwin published this book because he believed it to be a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. -
The Civil War begins in the United States
The Civil War was fought between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America. There were more than one cause of this war, like slavery, trade, and state rights. -
The Emancipation Proclamation
President Abraham Lincoln wrote The Emancipation Proclamation as the nation approached its third year of a bloody civil war. -
The Unification of Germany
The Unification of Germany the development and spread of German nationalism in the 19th century and the brilliant statecraft and diplomacy of Otto von Bismarck. -
The Meiji Restoration
The Meiji Restoration was a chain of events that restored practical imperial rule to Japan in 1868 under Emperor Meiji. -
The Suez Canal
The Suez Canal is the first canal that directly links the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea. It was mainly opened for navigation during 1869. Then Egypt had nationalized the calls on July 26th of 1956 and the canal was closed around five times. But later the canal had reopened for navigation on June 1975. -
The Mexican Revolution
The Mexican Restoration was a major armed struggle that radically transformed Mexican culture and government. -
The Berlin Conference
The Conference that sets the stage to divide up Africa. The countries Ethiopia and Liberia are not colonized. -
The Russo-Japanese War
Japan defeats Russia and it changes the worlds view on Russia. Russia declines after the war, -
World War I begins
World War I was the worlds first global conflict. The assassination of Franz Ferdinand triggered this war. -
The Chinese Revolution
The Chinese Communist Revolution was the culmination of the Chinese Communist Party's drive to power and the second part of the Chinese Civil War.
