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Apr 24, 1271
Marco Polo travels to China
Marco Polo is famous for his travels through Asia. He was one of the first Europeans to travel into Mongolia and China. -
Jan 21, 1349
Black Death/Plague
Black Death killed 30-50% of the English population. -
Jan 19, 1492
Columbus Discovers America
Columbus was an explorer, colonizer, and navigator, born in the Republic of Genoa, in northwestern Italy. -
Jan 19, 1503
DaVincis Mona Lisa painted
wife of Francesco del Giocondo
Leonardo was and is renowned primarily as a painter -
1588 Spanish Armada destroyed in the English Channel
In the later part of the 16th century, Spain was the major international power and either ruled, colonized, or exercised influence over much of the known world. -
1642-1651 English Revoloution
"The English Civil War" was a series of armed conflicts and political conspiracies that took place between Parliamentarians and Royalists from 1642 until 1651, and includes the Second English Civil War (1648–1649) and the Third English Civil War (1649–1651) -
Peter the Great becomes Czar of Russia
Peter was a grandson of Czar Michael Romanov (who was crowned as Czar in 1613). In 1682 Peter was proclaimed Czar at the incredibly young age of 10. -
First daily newspaper
The Courant, begins publication in LondonThe paper consisted of a single page with two columns. Mallet advertised that he intended to publish only foreign news and would not add any comments of his own, supposing other people to have "sense enough to make reflections for themselves -
French Revoloution
The French Revoloution began with the storming of the Bastille. French society underwent an epic transformation as feudal, aristocratic and religious privileges evaporated under a sustained assault from radical left-wing political groups, masses on the streets, and peasants in the countryside. -
Nobel invents dynamite
In 1860, the inventor first started experimenting with nitroglycerine.
