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Period: Sep 25, 1096 to Sep 25, 1291
#1 Crusades are Fought
The Crusades were a series of religious wars fought by Christian kingdoms against Muslim kingdoms beginning in 1096 and ending in 1291. -
Period: Sep 25, 1337 to Sep 25, 1453
#3 100 Years War begins
The Hundred Years' War was a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 pitting the House of Plantagenet, rulers of the Kingdom of England, against the House of Valois for control of the Kingdom of France. -
Period: Oct 15, 1346 to Oct 15, 1353
Black Death begins in Europe
The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people and peaking in Europe in the years 1346–53. -
Period: Sep 29, 1368 to
Ming Dynasty in China
The Ming dynasty, also Empire of the Great Ming, was the ruling dynasty of China for 276 years (1368–1644) following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Ming, described by some as "one of the greatest eras of orderly government and social stability in human history,"[5] was the last dynasty in China ruled by ethnic Han Chinese. A -
Period: Oct 15, 1400 to
Renaissance begins
The word Renaissance, whose literal translation from French into English is "Rebirth", appears in English writing from the 1830. -
Period: Oct 15, 1405 to Oct 15, 1433
Voyages of Zheng He
ver a period of almost three decades in the early fifteenth century, Ming China sent out a fleet the likes of which the world had never seen. These enormous treasure junks were commanded by the great admiral, Zheng He. Together, Zheng He and his armada made seven epic voyages from the port at Nanjing to India, Arabia, and even East Africa. -
Jan 1, 1431
#2 Joan of Arc burned at the stake
Joan of Arc, nicknamed "The Maid of Orleans," is considered a heorine of France and a Roman Catholic saint.
They thought she was a witch, so she was burned becoming cleansed. -
Oct 15, 1450
Johannes Gutenberg-printing press
A printing press is a device for evenly printing ink onto a print medium (substrate) such as paper or cloth. The device applies pressure to a print medium that rests on an inked surface made of movable type, thereby transferring the ink. -
Sep 29, 1453
Ottomans conquer Constantinople
The fall of Constantinople occured May 29, 1453 after a siege which began April 6th. Ottomans losses during the siege are not known, but it is believed that the defenders lost over 4,000 men. -
Jan 1, 1492
1st voyage of Columbus
Columbus led his three ships - the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria - out of the Spanish port of Palos on August 3, 1492. His objective was to sail west until he reached Asia (the Indies) where the riches of gold, pearls and spice awaited. -
Oct 15, 1492
Jews, gypsies & moors expelled from Spain
The Jews were forced to be Christains, 90,000 jews were converted. -
Sep 25, 1498
Da Gama lands in India
Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama becomes the first European to reach India via the Atlantic Ocean when he arrives at Calicut on the Malabar Coast.
Da Gama sailed from Lisbon, Portugal, in July 1497, rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and anchored at Malindi on the east coast of Africa. -
Period: Oct 15, 1500 to
Slave trade across Atlantic
The vast majority of those enslaved that were transported to the New World, many on the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage, were West Africans from the central and western parts of the continent sold by West Africans to Western European slave traders, or by direct European capture to the Americas. -
Period: Sep 29, 1501 to
Safavid Empire
The Safavid dynasty was one of the most significant ruling dynasties of Persia (modern Iran), and "is often considered the beginning of modern Persian history.' -
Sep 25, 1502
Naming the "new world"
The New World is one of the names used for the Western Hemisphere, specifically the Americas.
The term originated in the early 16th century after Europeans made landfall in what would later be called "the Americas.' -
Period: Sep 25, 1503 to Sep 25, 1507
#5 Da Vinci paints the "Mona Lisa"
The painting, thought to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, is in oil on a white Lombardy poplar panel, and is believed to have been painted between 1503 and 1506. -
Period: Oct 15, 1508 to Oct 15, 1512
Michelangelo begins painting Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo began to work on the frescoes for Pope Julius II in 1508, replacing a blue ceiling dotted with stars. Originally, the pope asked Michelangelo to paint the ceiling with a geometric ornament, and place the twelve apostles in spandrels around the decoration. -
Sep 25, 1517
#4 Martin Luther posts 95 Theses
On 31 October 1517, Luther posted the ninety-five theses, which he had composed in Latin, on the door of the Castle Church of Wittenberg, according to university custom.
Significantly, the Theses reject the validity of indulgences. -
Oct 15, 1519
Magellan starts his "around the world" trip
Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies that resulted in the first circumnavigation of the Earth, completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano. -
Oct 15, 1526
Mughal Empire begins
The Mughal Empire, founded in 1526, was the most powerful Islamic state to rule in India. It was at its most PROSPEROUS during the 17th century, when fine buildings such as the TAJ MAHAL were constructed. -
Oct 15, 1530
Herny VII founds Anglican Church
He created the Anglican church because the pope wouldn't let him and his wife get a divorce. He wanted a divorce because she couldn't have a baby boy. -
Oct 15, 1537
Pizzaro invades the Inca Empire
The Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire was one of the most important campaigns in the Spanish colonization of the Americas. After years of preliminary exploration and military skirmishes, 168 Spanish soldiers under Francisco Pizarro and their native allies captured the Sapa Inca Atahualpa in the 1532 Battle of Cajamarca. -
Oct 15, 1543
Copernicus publishes heliocentric theory
Copernican heliocentrism is the name given to the astronomical model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus and published in 1543. It positioned the Sun near the center of the Universe, motionless, with Earth and the other planets rotating around it in circular paths modified by epicycles and at uniform speeds. -
Period: Sep 29, 1545 to Sep 29, 1563
Concil of Trent
he Council of Trent, held between 1545 and 1563 in Trento (Trent) and Bologna, northern Italy, was one of the Roman Catholic Church's most important ecumenical councils. Prompted by the Protestant Reformation, it has been described as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation. -
Period: Sep 29, 1556 to Sep 29, 1581
Phillip II rules Spain
Phillip II was king of Spain from 1556-1581. During his reign, Spain reached the height of its influence and power. -
Oct 15, 1558
Elizabeth I becomes Oueen of England
Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry VIII by second wife, Anne Boleyn, who was executed two and a half years after Elizabeth's birth.
Anne's marriage to Henry VIII was annulled, and Elizabeth was declared illegitimate. Her half-brother, Edward VI, ruled until his death in 1553, bequeathing the crown to Lady Jane Grey and ignoring the claims of his two half-sisters, Elizabeth and the Roman Catholic Mary, in spite of statute law to the contrary. -
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Age of Enlightment
The Age of Enlightenment (or simply the Enlightenment or Age of Reason) was a cultural movement of intellectuals beginning in late 17th-century Western Europe emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. It spread across Europe and to the United States, continuing to the end of the 18th century. -
Jamestown, colony in Virgina, founded
The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. William Kelso says Jamestown "is where the British Empire began,... this was the first colony in the British Empire." -
Louis XIV becomes King of France
Louis XIV, known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of France and Navarre from 1643 until his death -
Qing Dynasty in China Begins
The Qing dynasty, also Empire of the Great Qing, Great Qing or Manchu dynasty, was the last imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1644. The dynasty was founded by the Jurchen Aisin Gioro clan in Northeastern China, also known as Manchuria. -
Thomas Hobbes write Leviathan
Its name derives from the biblical Leviathan. Hobbes wrote that civil war and the brute situation of a state of nature ("the war of all against all") could only be avoided by strong undivided government. -
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Oliver Cromwell rules England
Oliver Cromwell was an English military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. Born into the middle gentry, Cromwell was relatively obscure for the first 40 years of his life. -
Peter I (The Great) becomes Czar
Peter the Great ] ruled the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian Empire from 7 May 1682 until his death, jointly ruling before 1696 with his half-brother. Through a number of successful wars he expanded the Tsardom into a much larger empire that became a major European power. -
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Catherine the Great rules Russia
Yekaterina Alexeevna or Catherine II, also known as Catherine the Great, was the most renowned and the longest-ruling female leader of Russia, reigning from 9 July, 1762 until her death in 1796 at the age of 67. -
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French Revolution begins
The French Revolution as a period of radical social and political upheaval in France from 1789 to 1799 that profoundly affected French and modern history, marking the decline of powerful monarchies and churches and the rise of democracy and nationalism. -
U.S. Constitution is ratified
When a bill of rights was proposed in Congress in 1789, North Carolina ratified the Constitution. Finally, Rhode Island, which had rejected the Constitution in March 1788 by popular referendum, called a ratifying convention in 1790 as specified by the Constitutional Convention. -
Reign of Terror begins
The Reign of Terror, also known as The Terror, was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution". -
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Napoleon becomes Emperor
In 1804 he made himself emperor of the French people. He fought a series of wars —the Napoleonic Wars—that involved complex coalitions for and against him. -
Napoleon defeated @Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo, which took place in Belgium on June 18, 1815, marked the final defeat of French military leader and emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), who conquered much of continental Europe in the early 19th century. -
Tokugawa Shogunate ends
The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the Tokugawa bakufu and the Edo bakufu, as the last feudal Japanese military government which existed between 1603 and 1868.
