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Aug 28, 1096
Crusades are fought
At least 10,000 Europeans joined the military mission to take the Holy Land from the Muslims who controlled it. The first Crusade lasted from 1096 to 1099. -
Sep 5, 1337
100 Years War begins
The Hundred Years of War was a long struggle between England & France over succession to the French throne. It lasted from 1337 to 1453. -
Aug 28, 1347
Black Death begins in Europe
The plague that began in Asia, spread to different parts via trading ships. Rats on the ships carried the disease. -
Sep 24, 1368
Ming Dynasty in China
In the late period of the Yuan Dynasty, a peasant's uprising - Hongjinjun uprising broke out against the Mongols. From 1360 to 1367, his army managed to eliminate the remaining separatist military forces. -
Sep 5, 1400
Renaissance begins
This new age would be considered the "rebirth" of learning and literature, art and culture. This time created a new & modern way of thinking. -
Sep 12, 1431
Joan of Arc burned at the stake
She was 19 years old when she was burned. She started having visions at 13 years old. -
Oct 1, 1440
Slave trade across Atlantic
Expanding European empires in the New World lacked one major resource -- a work force. In most cases the indigenous peoples had proved unreliable (most of them were dying from diseases brought over from Europe), and Europeans were unsuited to the climate and suffered under tropical diseases. Africans, on the other hand, were excellent workers. -
Aug 3, 1492
First voyage of Columbus
He left from mainland Spain on August 3rd, after much convincing, the King and Queen of Spain funded his voyage. He was in charge of three ships; the Pinta, Nina and Santa Maria. -
May 20, 1498
Da Gama lands in India
First Europen to reach India via the Indian Ocean. He died in 1524 in combat. -
Sep 5, 1500
Johannes Gutenberg- printing press
The Gutenberg printing press developed from the technology of the screw-type wine presses of the Rhine Valley. He created his printing press, a hand press, which ink was rolled over the raised surfaces of moveable hand-set block letters held in a wooden form and the form was pressed against a sheet of paper. -
Oct 16, 1501
Safavid Empire
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Sep 12, 1502
Naming of the "New World"
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Sep 8, 1503
Da Vinci paints the "Mona Lisa"
Leonardo Da Vinci started painting it in 1503 & finished it in 1506. He kept changing it so some say the finish date was 1507. -
Jul 5, 1508
Michelangelo begins painting Sistine Chapel
It took him a bit over four years, He worked in buon fresco (a specific type of painting method). It took him so long because he suffered many setbacks such as; mold and miserable, damp weather that disallowed plaster curing. -
Oct 31, 1517
Martin Luther posts 95 Theses
The 95 Theses were basically a piece of paper that Martin Luther nailed to the Castle Church doors, condemming the excesses and corruption of the Roman Catholic Church. -
Aug 10, 1519
Magellan starts his "around the world" trip
Magellan was killed in April of 1521, in the Phillipines. They had already reached the eastern edge of the known world, but after his death, his men completed the voyage to Spain. -
Oct 17, 1526
Mughal Empire begins
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Sep 18, 1532
Pizarro invades the Inca Empire
168 Spanish soldier under Francisco Pizarro and their native allies captured the Sapa Inca Alahualpa in the 1532 Battle of Cajamarca. -
Oct 17, 1534
Henry VII founds Anglican Church
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Oct 17, 1537
Pizzarro invades the Inca Empire
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Sep 10, 1543
Copernicus publishes heliocentric theory
The heliocentric theory is an astronomical model that showed the sun at the center of the universe instead of the earth (which was the belief at the time). -
Oct 1, 1556
Philip II rules Spain
During his reign the Spanish empire attained its greatest power, extent, and influence, though he failed to suppress the revolt of the Netherlands (beginning in 1566) and lost the “Invincible Armada” in the attempted invasion of England (1588). -
Nov 17, 1558
Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England
Elizabeth I was Queen of England until her death in 1603. Childless Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty. -
Qing Dynasty in China begins
In 1644 when peasant's uprising leader Li Zicheng ended Ming and set up a new regime in Beijing, the Qing army seduced a general named Wu Sangui to rebel against Li Zicheng. With Wu's help, the Qing army successfully captured Beijing and rooted their regime there. -
Age of Enlightenment
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. -
Oliver Cromwell rules England
Oliver Cromwell was born on 25 April 1599 in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire into a family of minor gentry and studied at Cambridge University. He became member of parliament for Huntingdon in the parliament of 1628 - 1629. -
Peter I (The Great) becomes Czar
His rein lasted until the 8th of February, 1725. In November 1721, to celebrate the long-coveted conquest, Peter assumed the title of Emperor as Russia officially became the Russian Empire. The end of the Northern war left Peter free to resume a more active policy on the southeastern border. In 1722, he invaded Persian territory and a year later Persia ceded parts of the Caspian Sea to Russia. -
Catherine the Great rules Russia
ntelligent, ruthless, sexually insatiable: she was the most powerful woman in the world, dragging Russia 'out of her medieval stupor and into the modern world'. In 1744, she arrived in Russia, as the Grand Duchess Catherine Alekseyevna, and married Peter, grandson of Peter the Great and heir to the throne. Russia at the time was ruled by Peter's mother, the empress Elizabeth. When Empress Elizabeth died Catherine claimed the throne. -
French Revolution begins
King Louis XVI needed money. His financial crisis forced the French monarch to reluctantly convene the Estates General in order to levy a new land tax that would hopefully solve his monetary woes. The tension increased, exacerbated by massive crop failures that led to a shortage of food. In Paris, mobs filled the city's streets. The fear spread that the king would retaliate with force. On July 14 the mob stormed the Bastille to obtain arms. The attack launched the nation down a terrbile path. -
Napoleon becomes Emperor
In Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Napoleon I, the first Frenchman to hold the title of emperor in a thousand years. Pope Pius VII handed Napoleon the crown that the 35-year-old conqueror of Europe placed on his own head. The Corsican-born Napoleon, one of the greatest military strategists in history, rapidly rose in the ranks of the French Revolutionary Army during the late 1790s. By 1799, France was at war with most of Europe -
Napolean defeated @ Waterloo
Belgium, a coalition of British, Dutch, Belgian, and German forces defeated the French army led by Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon’s defeat at Waterloo led to his second and final fall from power, and ended more than two decades of wars across Europe that had begun with the French Revolution.
