AP World History Timeline

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  • Period: Jan 1, 1368 to

    Ming dynasty

  • Jul 11, 1405

    Zheng He begins voyages

  • Jan 1, 1420

    Forbidden City founded

  • Period: Jan 1, 1428 to Jan 1, 1521

    Aztec

  • Period: Jan 1, 1438 to Jan 1, 1572

    Inca

  • Jan 1, 1444

    Mehmed II reigns (Took down Constantinople the year before)

  • Jan 1, 1450

    Gutenberg's printing press in operation

  • Period: Jan 1, 1450 to

    Early Modern Era

  • Period: Jan 1, 1450 to

    Spain, Portugal, France, England, HRE, and Russia present throughout

  • Jan 1, 1453

    Fall of Constantinope

  • Nov 13, 1460

    Prince Henry the Navigator dies, initiator of the Age of Discovery

  • Jan 1, 1464

    Sunni Ali begins reign (expands Songhai)

  • Period: Jan 27, 1464 to

    Songhay

  • May 3, 1469

    Machiavelli born (founder of modern political science)

  • Jan 1, 1471

    Pizarro born (Conquistador that conquers Inca Empire)

  • Feb 19, 1473

    Copernicus born (triggered the Copernican Revolution)

  • Nov 10, 1483

    Martin Luther born (faith most important)

  • Jan 1, 1488

    Bartolomeu Dias sails from Atlantic into Indian Ocean

  • Oct 12, 1492

    Christopher Columbus reaches America

  • Jan 1, 1493

    Columbian Exchange Begins (shortly after Columbus's voyage)

  • Jul 2, 1494

    Treaty of Tordesillas made (divide New World)

  • Jan 1, 1498

    Vasco de Gama sails to India

  • Jan 1, 1501

    Shah Ismail takes regin (started Safavid dynasty)

  • Period: Jan 1, 1501 to

    Safavid dynasty

  • Jul 10, 1509

    Calvin born (started Calvinism)

  • Jan 1, 1513

    Vasco de Balboa crosses Isthmus of Panama

  • Aug 23, 1514

    Battle of Chaldiran occured

  • Jan 1, 1517

    Beginning of Protestant reformation

  • Jan 1, 1519

    Cortes arrives in Mexico

  • Jun 29, 1520

    Montezuma killed by Cortes

  • Sep 30, 1520

    Suleiman the Magnificent reigns

  • Sep 6, 1522

    Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigates the Earth

  • Jan 1, 1525

    Atahualpa begins Reign over Incas

  • Jan 1, 1526

    First triangle trade performed

  • Jan 1, 1526

    Mughal Empire begins

  • Jan 1, 1534

    Quebec discovered

  • Jan 1, 1539

    Loyola founded Jesuits

  • Jan 1, 1545

    Council of Trent begins (leads to Counter Reformation)

  • Feb 14, 1556

    Akbar the Great begins reign

  • Feb 15, 1564

    Galileo born (Father of science, physics, and more)

  • East India Company granted charter by Queen Elizabeth the 1st

  • Matteo Ricci enters the Forbidden City

  • Tokugawa became the first Shogun

  • Tokugawa Shogunate begins

  • First English settlement Jamestown established

  • John Locke born (Father of Liberalism)

  • Neo-Confucianism applied in Qing dynasty

  • Qing dynasty formed

  • Hobbes comes up with social contract theory

  • Kangxi Emperor begins 61 year reign

  • Voltaire born (advocated freedom of religion and speech)

  • Rouseau is born (influenced Enlightenment)

  • Ideas of the Enlightenment begin

  • Louis XIV dies after 72 years (longest reign of any monarch)

  • Peter the Great dies (expanded Tsardom)

  • Qianlong Emperor begins reign (helped reach Qing's most prosperous era)

  • Seven Years War begins

  • Catherine the Great reigns with ideas of Peter the Great

  • Seven Years War ends