Chapter 1-2 Timeline

By Chris.Echols
  • Jul 27, 1300

    Osman founds Ottoman state.

    The credit for founding the Great Turkish Empire has been bestowed upon Osman I. He led one of the Ghazi emirates and declared his small settlement of Turks independent from the reign of the Seljuk Turks in the year 1299. he declared Bursa as the capital of his small kingdom after extending the threshold of his small settlement closer to the edges of the Byzantine Empire. It is from Osman I that the Ottoman Empire derives its name.
  • Jan 1, 1350

    The Renaissance begins in Italy.

    The Renaissance was a rebirth in many different ways. It began in Northern Italy about 1350 right after the Black Death had ravaged the country, killing from a third to half the population. It was a rebirth of classical learning and a rediscovery of ancient Rome and Greece.
  • Jan 1, 1398

    Timur the Lame destroys Delhi

    On December 7th 1398, after overrunning and plundering most of northern India with a speed that was both astonishing and alarming, the right wing of Timur’s army reached the north of Delhi which then overlooked the Yamuna river. On 10th December the army moved across the river to take Loni, where every Hindu inhabitant was put to death. On December 12th a part of the sultan’s divided army came out of the city to meet Timur’s in battle.
  • Jan 1, 1452

    The Printing Press invented.

    The immediate effect of the printing press was to multiply the output and cut the costs of books. It thus made information available to a much larger segment of the population who were, of course, wanted information of any variety. Libraries could now store greater quantities of information at much lower cost.
  • May 29, 1453

    Ottomans capture Constantinople.

    The capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, Constantinople was conquered by the Ottoman Army, under the command Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II on 29th May 1453. With this conquest Ottomans became an Empire and one of the most powerful empires, After the Constantinople conquest, 21 years old Ottoman Sultan II. Mehmed also took the title “The Conqueror” added to his name.
  • Jan 1, 1501

    Safavids conquer Persia

    The Safavid dynasty was one of the best ruling dynasties of Persia, It is often considered the beginning of modern Persian history. They ruled one of the greatest Persian empires after the Muslim conquest of Persia.
  • Jan 1, 1509

    Henry VIII becomes King.

    Henry was just shy of 18 years old when he became king, and had been preparing for it from the time of his older brother Arthur's death. Which he married his brother wife after his death.
  • Jan 1, 1517

    Martin Luther begins Reformation.

    Martin Luther drafted a letter to the Archbishop of Mainz discussing his problem with the sale of the indulgences. The church first tried to ignore the problem. The theses had quickly found their way across Germany and then throughout all of Europe. Over the next few years, Luther continued to preach and bagan a reformation.
  • Jan 1, 1526

    Babur founds Mughal Empire

    Barbur built a small army after his old one was taken away. He then swept threw India. He led 12,000 againts an army of 100,000 and beat them. He then set out for the Mughal Empire.
  • Jan 1, 1529

    Henry summons the Reformation Parliament.

    Henry VIII's Reformation Parliament, which sat from 1529 to 1536, fundamentally changed the nature of Parliament and of English government. The King summoned it in order to settle what was called his 'great matter', his divorce from Catherine of Aragon, which the Papacy in Rome was blocking.
  • Jan 1, 1534

    Henry VIII starts the Church of England.

    Thomas Cromwell became Henry's chief minister and earned the confidence of the King by helping him to break with Rome and establish Henry VIII as head of the Church of England. This act also brought him much needed wealth through the dissolution of the well-funded monasteries. Over four years Cromwell ordered that 800 monasteries be disbanded and their lands and treasures taken for the crown.
  • Jan 28, 1547

    Henry VIII dies.

    Henry VIII was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. Henry died January 28 in 1547. He died in the Palace of Whitehall in the city of Westminister, United Kingdom.
  • Jan 1, 1553

    Mary I restores Catholicism

    Mary used the royal prerogative to suspend the second Act of Uniformity and reintroduce the mass. There was little public outcry and this heartened Mary. Eight hundred Protestants left the country for Protestant Europe.
  • Jan 1, 1559

    Elizabeth I begins ruling and restores the Protestant Church.

    Elizabeth's toleration of Catholics, and her refusal to make changes to the Church she established in 1559, has led some historians to doubt her commitment to her faith - even to assert that she was an atheist, but such statements are misleading. Elizabeth wanted a Church that would appeal to both Catholics and Protestants, and did not want to move the Church in a more Protestant direction, thus making it more difficult for Catholics to accept the Church than it was already.

  • Taj Mahal is Built.

    The Taj Mahal was built in 1631. It was ordered by Shah Jahan to be built after his wife's death (giving birth to her 14th child) and was ordered to be as beautiful as she was. After Shah Jahan's death, a mirror was found in his cell so he could see the Taj Mahal outside.