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Aug 26, 1196
Crusades
At least 10,000 Europeans joined the military mission to take the Holy Land from the Muslims who controlled it. -
Sep 4, 1337
100 Year War Begins
It was conflicts waged from over a certain amount of years. The wars all lasted for over a time period of over 100 years. Fought over land in France. Fighting with England. -
Aug 28, 1347
Black Death
Began in Europe. An outspread of a diseases from trade with the East. It spread more and more from fleas on rats. It killed on-third of the population. -
Sep 18, 1350
Renaissance Begins
It represents a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuries. Early Renaissance, mostly in Italy, bridges the art period during the fifteenth century, between the Middle Ages and the High Renaissance in Italy. -
Oct 8, 1368
Ming Dynasty in China
They Ming Dynasty ruled China from 1368 to 1644. It was a period of native Chinese leadership that came in between Mongol and Manchu rule. It was founded by Zhu Yuanzhang, who proclaimed himself emperor in Yingtian. -
Aug 28, 1431
Joan Of Arc
Saw visions of two wars, and fought with them when she was 13. English troops suffered defeat. She was a peasant. She was burned for her religious crimes. -
Sep 18, 1453
Johannes Gutenberg - Printed press
Johannes Gutenberg's work on the printing press began in approximately 1436 when he partnered with Andreas Dritzehn a man who had previously instructed in gem-cutting and Andreas Heilmann, owner of a paper mill. However, it was not until a 1439 lawsuit against Gutenberg that an official record exists; witnesses' testimony discussed Gutenberg's types, an inventory of metals (including lead), and his type molds. -
Oct 6, 1492
1st voyage of Columbus
On August 3, 1492, Columbus set sail from Spain to find an all-water route to Asia. On October 12, more than two months later, Columbus landed on an island in the Bahamas that he called San Salvador, the natives called it Guanahani. -
Oct 8, 1497
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. -
Oct 8, 1502
Naming of the "new world"
The New World is one of the names used for the Western Hemisphere, specifically the Americas, certain Atlantic and Pacific oceanic islands to which the closest continental shelf is that of the Americas, and sometimes Oceania. -
Aug 28, 1508
Michelangelo
Michelangelo's painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel shows sweeping scenes Old Testament of the bible. He worked on it for many years with some assistance. -
Sep 18, 1517
Da Vinci paints the "Mona Lisa"
The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world. -
Oct 6, 1521
Magellan starts his "around the world" trip
Magellan did not complete his entire trip, he was killed during the Battle of Mactan in the Philippines. In 1521, traveling west from Europe, the expedition reached a region of Southeast Asia which Magellan had reached on previous voyages traveling east. -
Oct 8, 1532
Pizarro inveades the Inca Empire
When Atahualpa was captured at the massacre at Cajamarca, he was treated with respect and is rumored to have learned from the Spanish soldiers the game of chess. Pizarro held Atahualpa for a ransom of gold and silver which began to arrive from Cuzco on 20 December 1532 and flowed steadily from then on. -
Oct 14, 1534
Henry VIII founds Angilcan Church
As the name suggests, the churches of the Anglican Communion are linked by affection and common loyalty. They are in full communion with the See of Canterbury and the Archbishop of Canterbury, in his person, is a unique focus of Anglican unity. -
Oct 6, 1543
Copernicus publishes heliocentric theory
a cosmological model in which the Sun is assumed to lie at or near a central point while the Earth and other bodies revolve around it. -
Slave trade across Atlantic
The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade took place across the Atlantic Ocean from the 16th through to the 19th centuries. 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. -
Qing Dynasty in china begins
The Qing dynasty was the last imperial dynasty in China. It was founded by the non-Chinese people of the Manchus who originally lived in the northeast, a region later called Manchuria. The Manchus used the disintegration of the central government of the Ming empire to conquer China. -
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. -
Martin Luther posts 95 theses
Martin Luther postes 95 complaints on the door of the church to explain what he thought they were doing wrong. He thought they shouldn't have to have pieces of paper to tell them if they're going to heaven or hell.
