Modern world history By Torno ngungu 1440 Invention of the Printing Press 1492 America discovered 1492 Columbian Exchange 1517 The Reformation 1543 Scientific Revolution 1633 Galileo’s Trial Period: 1685 to 1815 The Age Of Enlightenment Period: 1775 to 1783 America Revolution 1789 French Revolution Period: 1791 to 1804 Haitian Revolution Period: 1856 to 1860 Opium War in China Period: 1861 to 1865 American Civil War Period: 1868 to 1889 The Meiji Restoration Period: 1884 to 1885 The Berlin Conference 1911 End of the Qing Dynasty Period: 1914 to 1918 WWl Period: 1939 to 1945 WWll Period: 1947 to 1991 Cold War 1991 End of Apartheid in South Africa 2001 Sept.11th terrorism