block 2 world history 2017

  • Period: 1095 to 1291

    crusades

    It is a holy war. It was a war between Christians and muslims.
    It took place in medieval time. They where sanctioned by the latin church. Reclaiming Christian territory and remove islamic rule from the holy lands.
  • 1300

    renaissance

    renaissance
    It meant rebirth. the artworks made where the Mona Lisa,David and The Last Supper. was in the 14 to 17 century. was after the black death. It was in the late medieval period.
  • Period: Nov 7, 1337 to 1453

    Hundred years war

    A war between England and France. The war was a long series of battles with long periods of peace in between.The battle went on for years. It was used by historians since the nineteenth century. Started in 1337 and ended in 1453.
  • 1347

    Black Death begins in Eroupe

    Black Death begins in Eroupe
    The black death came from fleas that were on rats. It killed most of the population.
  • May 30, 1431

    Joan of Arc Burned at the stake.

  • 1440

    Johannes Gutenberg printing press

    Johannes  Gutenberg printing press
    He used movable metal letters. He printed the bible first. Bible was cheap. inspired exploration. inspired reformation.
  • 1478

    Start of the Spanish Inquisition

    Start of the Spanish Inquisition
    The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition. Commonly known as the Spanish Inquisition. Was established in 1478 by Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile. Spanish Inquisition, (1478–1834), judicial institution ostensibly established to combat heresy in Spain. In practice, the Spanish Inquisition served to consolidate power in the monarchy of the newly unified Spanish kingdom, but it achieved that end through infamously brutal methods.
  • Aug 1, 1498

    Christopher columbus lands in the new world.

    Christopher columbus lands in the new world.
    Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sets foot on the American mainland for the first time, at the Paria Peninsula in present-day Venezuela.Thinking it an island, he christened it Isla Santa and claimed it for Spain.Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1451. Little is known of his early life, but he worked as a seaman and then a sailing entrepreneur.He became obsessed with the possibility of pioneering a western sea route to Cathay China, India, and the fabled gold and spice islands of Asia.
  • Jan 1, 1503

    Mona Lisa completed

    Mona Lisa completed
  • Jan 1, 1508

    michelangelo begins painting the sistine chapel

    michelangelo begins painting the sistine chapel
    The sistine chapel celling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, is a cornerstone work of high renaissance art.
  • Oct 31, 1517

    martin luther post 95 theses

  • Aug 13, 1521

    Cortez conquers the Aztecs

    Cortez conquers the Aztecs
    Hernan Cortes invaded Mexico and conquered the Aztec Empire.The Spanish campaign declared victorious when a coalition army of Spanish forces and native warriors led by Hernán Cortés and the Younger captured the emperor and Tenochtitlan the capital of the Aztec Empire. Tenochtitlá was founded in 1325 A.D. By a wandering tribe of hunters and gatherers on islands in Lake Texcoco, near the present site of Mexico City. This civilization grew into the Aztec empire.
  • Period: 1530 to

    ivan the terrible's reign

    During his reign, Russia conquered the Khanates of Kazan, Astrakhan and Sibir, becoming a multiethnic and multicontinental state spanning approximately 4,050,000 km2 (1,560,000 sq mi). He exercised autocratic control over Russia's hereditary nobility and developed a bureaucracy to administer the new territories. He transformed Russia from a medieval state into an empire, though at immense cost to its people, and its broader, long-term economy.
  • Period: Sep 7, 1533 to

    Queen Elizabeth's reign

    Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, his second wife, 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. Elizabeth and the Roman Catholic Mary, in spite of statute law to the contrary. Edward's will was set aside and Mary became queen deposing Lady Jane Grey. One of her first actions as queen was the establishment of an English Protestant church.
  • Sep 25, 1555

    Peace of Augsburg

    Peace of Augsburg
    The Peace of Augsburg, also called the Augsburg Settlement, was a treaty between Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (the predecessor of Ferdinand I) and the Schmalkaldic League, signed on September 1555 at the imperial city of Augsburg.
  • Spanish Armada

    Spanish Armada
    Off the coast of Gravelines, France, Spain’s so-called “Invincible Armada” is defeated by an English naval force under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake. After eight hours of furious fighting, a change in wind direction prompted the Spanish to break off from the battle and retreat toward the North Sea. Its hopes of invasion crushed, the remnants of the Spanish Armada began a long and difficult journey back to Spain.
  • Edict of Nantes

    Edict of Nantes
    The Edict of Nantes French: édit de Nantes signed in April 1598 by King Henry IV of France, granted the Calvinist Protestants of France also known as Huguenots substantial rights in the nation which was still considered essentially Catholic at the time. In the edict Henry aimed primarily to promote civil unity. The edict separated civil from religious unity, treated some Protestants for the first time as more than mere schismatics and heretics and opened a path for success.
  • Period: to

    Slave trade

    In the 15th century,new European developments in seafaring technologies resulted in ships being better equipped to deal with the tidal currents. and could begin traversing the Atlantic Ocean. approximately 300,000 sailors engaged in the slave trade visited West Africa.The slave trade used mainly the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage, and existed from the 16th to the 19th centuries.The Portuguese were the first to engage in the Atlantic slave trade in the 16th century.
  • King Charles the first executed

    King Charles the first executed
    Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.
  • Period: to

    Era of the Samurai

    The samurai or bushi were the warriors of premodern Japan. They later made up the ruling military class that eventually became the highest ranking social caste of the Edo Period 1603-1867. Samurai employed a range of weapons such as bows and arrows, spears and guns. Their main weapon and symbol was the sword. Samurai were supposed to lead their lives according to the ethic code of bushido "the way of the warrior".
  • Willam Shakespeare's death

    Willam Shakespeare's death
    The cause of Shakespeare's death is unknown he died April 23rd 1616 at the age of 52 William Shakespeare's birth date has been estimated as 26th April 1564.The exact date of death is not known but it seems fitting that he died on April 23rd April, the same date given for his birth. Just four weeks prior to his death, on 25th March 1616. William made his last will and testament. Shakespeare's burial is recorded in the Stratford Parish Register as occurring on 25 April.
  • Petition of rights

    Petition of rights
    The Petition of Right is a major English constitutional document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing.