Conquest of the New World

  • Mar 13, 1440

    Gutenberg Press

    Gutenberg Press
  • Period: Mar 14, 1450 to

    Ottoman Empire

  • Period: Mar 14, 1450 to

    Ming Dynasty

  • Period: Mar 14, 1450 to

    Columbian Exchange

  • Mar 13, 1453

    Ottomans conquer Constantinople

    Ottomans conquer Constantinople
  • Period: Mar 14, 1481 to

    Spanish Inquisition

  • Mar 13, 1490

    First Globe Made

  • Mar 13, 1492

    Christopher Columbus arrives in the Americas

  • Mar 13, 1494

    Treaty of Tordesillas divides New World between Spain and Portugal

  • Mar 13, 1497

    Vasco de Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope

  • Period: Mar 14, 1500 to

    "Little Ice Age"

  • Mar 13, 1501

    First Slaves arrive in Hispaniola

  • Mar 13, 1501

    Cortes takes Aztec city of Tenochtitlan

    Cortes takes Aztec city of Tenochtitlan
  • Period: Mar 14, 1501 to Mar 14, 1542

    Encomienda System

  • Period: Mar 14, 1501 to

    Safavid Empire

  • Mar 13, 1517

    Martin Luther writes 95 Theses

    Martin Luther writes 95 Theses
  • Mar 13, 1533

    Capture of the Incan Emperor Atahuallpa

  • Mar 13, 1533

    Pizzaro conquers Inca

    Pizzaro conquers Inca
  • Period: Mar 14, 1545 to Mar 14, 1563

    Catholic Counter-Reformation

  • Mar 13, 1564

    Invention of Lead Pencil

  • Mar 13, 1571

    Battle of Lepanto (naval defeat of the Ottomans)

  • British defeat Spanish Armada

    British defeat Spanish Armada
  • Triangle Trade Peak

  • Period: to

    Scientific Revolution

  • Period: to

    Tokugawa Shogunate

  • Founding of Jamestown

  • Period: to

    British East India Co.

  • Period: to

    Thirty Years' War

  • Founding of Plymouth Bay

  • Invention of Barometer

  • Period: to

    Qing Empire

  • Dutch lose New York to English

  • Period: to

    Peter the Great's Westernization of Russia

  • Brazilian Gold Rush

    Brazilian Gold Rush
  • Advent of Mercantilism

  • Invention of Piano

  • Invention of Thermometer