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May 18, 1450
Jack Cade's Rebellion-Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI.
jack was the leader of a popular revolt against the government of England in 1450. At the time of the revolt King Henry VI was on the throne. -
Period: Jan 1, 1464 to
Kingdom of Songhai in Africa
Songhai empire, also spelled Songhay, great trading state of West Africa (fl. 15th–16th century), centred on the middle reaches of the Niger River in what is now central Mali and eventually extending west to the Atlantic coast and east into Niger and Nigeria -
Jan 1, 1477
Charles the Bald Killed
the death of the emperor in 840 led to the outbreak of war between his sons. Charles allied himself with his brother Louis the German to resist the pretensions of the new emperor Lothair I -
Jan 1, 1492
Columbus Discovers America
Columbus led his three ships , the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria - out of the Spanish port of Palos on August 3, 1492.Columbus was not even the first to discover america but he claimed to be -
Jan 1, 1498
Vasco De Gama lands in India
Vasco de gama was a portuguese explorer who becomes the first European to reach India via the Atlantic Ocean when he arrives at Calicut on the Malabar Coast -
Period: Jan 1, 1500 to Dec 31, 1519
Spanish conquest of West Indies, including Puerto Rico and Cuba
the Spanish West Indies was the former name of the Spanish colonies in the Caribbean. It became a territory of the Viceroyalty of New Spain when the viceroyalty was created in 1535. It consisted of the present day nations of Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, -
Jan 1, 1501
Introduction of African slaves in Latin America
out of 11 million Africans only 450,000 arrived in the United States, while the rest arrived in Latin America and the Caribbean. These slaves were brought as early as the 16th and 17th centuries. -
Jan 1, 1509
Henry accedes to the throne on the death of his father Henry VII.
Henry VII was King of England until his death, the first monarch of the House of Tudor. Henry won the throne when his forces defeated King Richard III at the Battle His father, Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, died three months before -
Jan 1, 1517
Martin Luther’s 95 Theses; beginning of the Protestant Revolution
a document written by Martin Luther in 1517 that beginning of the Protestant Revolution -
Period: Jan 1, 1519 to Dec 31, 1521
Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition around the world
Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan set out from Spain in 1519 with a fleet of five ships to discover a western sea route to the Spice Islands. he discovered what is now known as the Strait of Magellan and became the first European to cross the Pacific Ocean -
Period: Jan 1, 1520 to Dec 31, 1566
Sűleyman (Suleiman) the Magnificent
Suleiman I, commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in the West and "Kanuni" in his realm, was the tenth and longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1520 to his death in 1566 -
Period: Jan 1, 1520 to Dec 31, 1580
Height of encomienda system in Spanish America
The encomienda system was created by the Spanish to control and regulate American Indian labor and behavior during the colonization of the Americas. -
Period: Jan 1, 1526 to
Mughal Empire in India (officially 1857)
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a rebellion in India against the rule of the British East India The official Blue Books, East India laid before the House of Commons during the In spite of the significant loss of power that the Mughal dynasty had suffered in the preceding centuries -
Jan 1, 1531
Francisco Pizarro’s conquest of the Inca Empire
The Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire was one of the most important campaigns -
Jan 1, 1533
Henry's marriage to Catherine is annulled.
One reason obehind the annulment was Henry's need for an heir to the throne. -
Jan 1, 1533
Henry marries Anne Boleyn; Princess Elizabeth is born.
King Henry VIII broke from the Church to marry Anne. She gave birth to a daughter, but could not conceive a son. -
Jan 1, 1542
Portuguese traders to Japan
The first three Europeans to arrive in Japan in 1543, were Portuguese traders António Mota, António Peixoto and Francisco Zeimoto. -
Jan 1, 1549
First Portuguese government in Brazil
The Portuguese Cortes demanded that Brazil return to its former condition of colony and that the heir return to Portugal. Prince Pedro, influenced by the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Senate refused to return to Portugal in the famous Dia do Fico -
Jan 1, 1559
Macau taken by Portugal
Panoramic photograph of Macau, taken by Jules Itier in the 19th Century. The city of Macau on its peninsula with both the outer and inner harbours -
Jan 1, 1562
Beginning of British slave trade in Africa
Britain was the most dominant between 1640 and 1807 when the British slave trade was abolished. It is estimated that Britain transported 3.1 million Africans -
Period: Jan 1, 1574 to
Mita forced mine-labor system in Andean Spanish America
Mit'a was mandatory public service in the society of the Inca Empire. Historians use the hispanicized term mita to differentiate the system as it was During viceregal times, -
Defeat of Spanish Armada by English
by an English naval force under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake. -
Fall of Songhai Empire
al-Mansur took advantage of the recent civil strife in the empire and sent an army under the command of Judar Pasha to conquer the Songhai and to gain control of the Trans-Saharan trade routes -
Rise of serfdom in Eastern Europe; beg. of rapid pop. growth, especially in Asia
the rise of powerful monarchs, towns, and an improving economy weakened the Serfdom reached Eastern Europe centuries later than Western Europe -
Massachusetts Bay Colony
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was an English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century in and around the broad opening of Massachusetts Bay -
English Civil War
The English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists over, principally, the manner of England's government. -
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Louis XIV in France; absolute monarchy
King Louis XIV of France, also known as the Sun King, became an absolute monarch in 1661 when he decided to rule France directly, instead of through a prime minister. He was 23 years old at the time and 18 years into his reign, -
Dutch colony on Cape of Good Hope
The Portuguese navigator Bartolomeu Dias reached the southern tip of Africa in 1488 and named it the Cape of Good Hope -
Great Plague in London kills 75,000.
n 1665, the Great Plague of London killed more than 75,000 people in the space of a year, almost a quarter of the city's population back then. It caused 8,000 deaths per week during its peak in September 1665. -
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Height of sugar plantation system and slavery in northeastern Brazil
Pictured here is a Brazilian Sugar plantation. Sugar ... The quilombo generally did not try to overthrow the slave system nor tried to cause war. -
Pennsylvania founded by William Penn.
Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn primarily because of his devotion to religion freedom. -
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's calculus published.
the German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz occupies a grand place in the history of philosophy. He was, along with René Descartes and Baruch Spinoza, one of the three great 17th Century rationalists, -
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Glorious Revolution in Britain; parliamentary regime; some religious toleration; political writing of John Locke
The Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England (James VII of Scotland) -
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Peter the Great
Peter the Great, Peter I or Peter Alexeyevich ruled the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian Empire from 7 May 1682 until his death, jointly ruling before 1696 with his elder half-brother -
British and French forts on east coast of India; scientific revolution in Europe
the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, the key developments a scientific revolution reshaped Western culture. In the Dutch East Indies and British India, peasants were forced into labor systems. of climate, disease, geographical barriers, and African strength, to coastal trading forts. -
War of the Spanish Succession
The War of the Spanish Succession (1701-14) was the first world war of modern times with theatres of war in Spain, Italy, Germany, Holland, and at sea. Charles II, king of Spain, died in 1700 without an heir. In his will he gave the crown to the French prince Philip of Anjou -
United Kingdom of Great Britain formed
Scotland and England were joined together in 1707, along with the previously joined Wales, to officially form the Kingdom of Great Britain. Ireland decided to join up in 1801, at which point the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was formed. -
New Orleans founded by the French in North America
The beginning of the Settlement of the Louisiana French Colony and the New Orleans Becomes an American City On February 17,1805 for eighty-three years as the capital of a vast European colony in North America. -
Persia partitioned between the Ottoman Empire and Russia
The Treaty of Constantinople Russo-Ottoman Treaty or Treaty of the Partition of Persia was a treaty concluded on 24 June 1724 between the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire -
Chinese-Russian frontier treaty
he Treaty of Kyakhta The caravan trade from Kyakhta opened up (Russian furs for Chinese tea). Agreement with Russia helped -
Cotton mills were first opened in England
In 1764, Thorp Mill, the first water-powered cotton mill in the world was constructed at Royton, Lancashire, England. It was used for carding cotton. The multiple spindle spinning jenny was invented in 1764. James Hargreaves is credited as the inventor.