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Aug 26, 1096
Crusades are fought
Muslims and christians were fighting for the holy land.
European kings grew more powerful after the crusades.
After the crusades the crossbow was invented.
From 1096-1291 -
Nov 12, 1337
100 years of war begins
war between france and england.
Fought for land in france.
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Sep 28, 1347
Black Death begins in europe
Black death began in asia and swept threw europe in 1347.
Black death was started by fleas and rats.
a third of the population was dead after black death was done. -
Aug 28, 1351
Renaissance begins
People lost faith and rebuilt.
This period has a great development in art
People stop beliveing the old church stuff and created a little better story to there beliefs. -
May 30, 1405
Zeng he voyages
Had at least 300 ships
Had trade ships called junks
Sailed to create a dynasty
From 1405-1433 -
Dec 12, 1431
Joan of Arc burned at the stake
Joan got burned at 19.
she was beloved by france but the king was nervos.
She became cananized in 1931. -
Sep 26, 1445
Council of trent
was the council that convicted martin luther
Was roman catholic court
Had connection with the worms -
Sep 4, 1472
Da vinci paints the mona lisa
The mona lisa painting tries to capture the human spirit
Tries to get people to cheer up
The mona lisa was meant to make people smile in a time of grief -
Oct 1, 1473
Copernicus publishes heliocentric theory
Was a polish astrominer
Made model of the sun as the center of universe
Got arrested for his beileifs -
Oct 26, 1473
Michelangelo begins painting the sistine chapel
Michelangelo was forced to build the sistine chapel by pope leo X -
Sep 4, 1475
johannes gutenberg- print press
Casted the letters of the alphabet into metal plates
Got most of the credit.
Johannes was the first european to ever do this
This was rare at this time -
Sep 22, 1492
1st voyage of Columbus
Voyage was getting run by the king and queen of spain
Sailed to present day Cuba
created trade between the two places -
Sep 29, 1497
Da gama lands in india
began journey in 1497
Took him ten months to get there because he stopped at several african ports.
Was the first person to make it to india -
Oct 17, 1497
Jews,Jypsies and moors expelled from Spain
After a baptisim all jews were known as christians
Because of this they were going to the ottaman empire for freedom of belifs -
Sep 26, 1500
Naming of the new world
amerigo was were america got it's name
Discovered by amerigo that this was not the east indes
Was named in 1492 -
Dec 8, 1500
Safavid Empire
The founder of the group is a 14 year old boy named Esma'il
The group gained control of what is now iran
In 1588 the group reformed and became stronger -
Sep 10, 1517
Martin Luther post 95 theses
He critisized the power of the pope.
He also critiszied the amout of wealth the pope had at that time.
he created the the lutheren religon -
Sep 26, 1519
Magellan starts his around the world journey
was the first to go aroun the world
his sail took place in the year of 1519
found a passage through south america -
Oct 2, 1526
Mughal Empire begins
Was a muslim group that started with a prince and soldiers and grew into an empire.
One of the great places they captured was mongolia thats what started the run of making a epire.
After defeating the Delhi they became known as the monghal. -
Sep 16, 1534
Henery VIII founds anglican church
Told parliment that that england was breaking away from the roman church.
Changed church from catholic to protostent.
Henry was the new leader of the church. -
Sep 26, 1546
Peter I(the great) becomes czar
earneed the title of czar
Intended to rule without limits
Created chaos with his maddness -
Sep 24, 1553
Queen Elizabeth I becomes queen of England
Restored the church of england
Daughter of King Henery VIII
Last of her family to take the throne -
Sep 18, 1556
Phillip II rules of spain
Made his people catholic
Phillip punished people for revolting and not beileveing in his religon.
Was a leader of the counter reformation -
Slave trade across the atlantic
African americans were shiped through the atlantic in the shape of a triangle thats why they call the shiping of black slaves triangular trade.
The roughest passage of the -
Qing dynasty in china begins
The ming dynasty's people rebelled against them and took it over and called themselves qing.
When they were trying to take over the last emporer of the ming dynasty killed himself to avoid capture.
They took over the capital in Begiing -
Oliver cromwell rules England
was a puratin
tryed to exicute charles
divided england into 11 sections -
Catherine the great rules russia
became ruler after her mother
supported the army of russia
she came up with a group in 1744 to grant peoples wishes -
French revolution begins
There king needed money and was running out of it
a group was going to break off from france
on july 14 a mob attacked -
Reign of terror begins
Happened in france
The guillotine begame symbol
Was extension of civil war -
Napolean becomes Emperor
was known for having a great army
went to war with russia
in the 1800s he was losing alot of wars -
Tokugawa shogunate ends
Was a japenese army that had shotguns
The government was losing money quicker and quicker over time
They ended up losing everything in 1867
