AP World History Timeline By Clue0902 Period: Jan 1, 1368 to Jan 1, 1644 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 Jan 1, 1750 Early Modern Era Period: Jan 1, 1450 to Jan 1, 1750 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 Jan 27, 1591 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 Jan 1, 1722 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) Dec 31, 1600 East India Company granted charter by Queen Elizabeth the 1st Jan 1, 1601 Matteo Ricci enters the Forbidden City Jan 1, 1603 Tokugawa became the first Shogun Jan 1, 1603 Tokugawa Shogunate begins May 4, 1607 First English settlement Jamestown established Aug 29, 1632 John Locke born (Father of Liberalism) Jan 1, 1644 Neo-Confucianism applied in Qing dynasty Jan 1, 1644 Qing dynasty formed Jan 1, 1651 Hobbes comes up with social contract theory Feb 5, 1661 Kangxi Emperor begins 61 year reign Nov 21, 1694 Voltaire born (advocated freedom of religion and speech) Jun 28, 1712 Rouseau is born (influenced Enlightenment) Jan 1, 1715 Ideas of the Enlightenment begin Sep 1, 1715 Louis XIV dies after 72 years (longest reign of any monarch) Feb 8, 1725 Peter the Great dies (expanded Tsardom) Oct 8, 1735 Qianlong Emperor begins reign (helped reach Qing's most prosperous era) Jan 1, 1754 Seven Years War begins Jan 1, 1762 Catherine the Great reigns with ideas of Peter the Great Jan 1, 1763 Seven Years War ends