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Period: Feb 3, 1299 to
Ottoman Empire
The Ottomon Empire was founded by Turkish tribes under Osman Bey in 1299 after the fall of the Byzantine Empire. Their military concentrated their wars on the Christians and also facilitated some of the trade that was going on. -
Period: Feb 3, 1340 to
Songhai Empire
The Songhai Empire was relatively big, and pushed its domination into the Sahara from the south. They had brought in their wealth from the trans-saharan traded and was ruled by an indigenous Muslim dynasty. The empire also took and end when it suffered invasions from the Moroccan armies. -
Feb 3, 1445
Prince Henry the Navigator
Although he was given title of a navigator, Henry, a Portuguese prince, didn’t sail or travel to other destinations other than discovering lands among the Madeira Islands and along the western coast of Africa. He advanced map making and opened up a school for navigating and constructing better ships. -
Feb 4, 1445
Beginning of Portuguese slave trade
Henry the navigator created a slave market in Africa in 1445. Slaves were then brought back to Portugal from Africa. -
Feb 3, 1450
Beginning of Portuguese Slave Trade
Prince Henry established a slave market & fort in 1445. By 1455 800 slaves were transported to Portugal. By 1470 Libson, Portugal's captital city becam the main slave port. Slavery migrated all around Portugal creating a large market in Libson. -
Feb 3, 1453
Reign of Mehmed the Conqueror
Sultan to the Ottoman Empire was known for doing and attack on Constantinople. In consequence, Constantinople fell afer an 1100 year rule and ending the Byzantine Empire. making the Ottomans seem powerful.He also fouded several colleges and universities around the area. -
Feb 4, 1464
Reign of Sunni Ali
The Reign of sunni Ali was from 1464 to 1492. Sunni Ali was the first king of the Songhai empire in WestAfrica. Durin his rule sonhai became more powerful than the Mali empire and he was the first ruler to allow both muslim and non muslims to co exist. During this time period co existence of the different beliefs were challenged greatly. -
Feb 3, 1487
Dias' Voyage into the Indian Ocean
Dias was the first Portuguese explorer to round the southern tip of Africa all the way to the Indian Ocean and had also later on influenced voyages such as those like Vasco da Gama. -
Feb 3, 1492
Columbus' First Voyage
The purpose of his voyage was to find a faster trade route to India that'll advoid Muslims after the Spanish inquistion, but instead had landed on the Carribean Islands, Columbus thought is was India everytime he sailed there; although, he opened up a new place to start trade with. -
Feb 4, 1493
Treaty of Tordesillas
In 1493, after reports of Columbus’s discoveries had reached them, the Spanish rulers Ferdinand and Isabella enlisted papal support for their claims to the New World in order to inhibit the Portuguese and other possible rival claimants. To accommodate them, the Spanish-born pope Alexander VI issued bulls setting up a line of demarcation from pole to pole 100 leagues (about 320 miles) west of the Cape Verde Islands. Spain was given exclusive rights to all newly discovered and undiscovered lands i -
Period: Feb 3, 1502 to
Safavid Dynasty
They were like the Ottoman Empire, even though they were rivals themselves. Their religious practice was Shi'ite Muslim, and neglected the belief of sunni muslim. They used land grants to support its cavalry. Its population spoke several languages, and they focused on land instead of sea. -
Feb 3, 1517
Martin Luther
He was a German monk and a religious professor of theology and major role in the Protestant Reformation. Because of his preaching about this later on, it caused a split in the church. Luther inspired the Protestant Reformation whicht lead to large amounts of changes of how people viewed the church in Europe. -
Feb 3, 1519
Spanish Conquest of Mexico
The Spanish were after gold. Thus, they conquered those cities to gain wealth. They made the natives search for their gold, but could never find any, and they believed that the Spanish were gods. Later on, the Spanish drained their reasouces, used them for labor, and helped start a world wide trade. -
Feb 3, 1521
Reign of Suleiman the Magnificent
He was son of Selim the 1st, and also was known of commanding the assault on Christian Europe. He complety reconstructed the Ottoman legal system and led Ottoman armies to conquer tBelgrade, Rhodes, and most of Hungary. -
Period: Feb 3, 1527 to
Mughal Empire
The Mughal Dynasty was an empire within the Indian subcontinent, whose rulers were Muslims, and descendants of Genghis Khan. In 1556, the “classic period” of the Mughal Dynasty began, with the ruler being Akbar the Great at the time. During this time, India was prosperous in terms of culture, economy, and religion. Also, it was during the reign of Shah Jahan when the golden age of Mughal architecture occurred. -
Period: Feb 4, 1534 to
Foundation of Society of Jesus
The Society of Jesus is a religious order founded by Saint Ignatius Loyola. Designated by him "The Company of Jesus" to indicate its true leader and its soldier spirit, the title was Latinized into "Societas Jesu" in the Bull of Paul III approving its formation and the first formula of its Institute ("Regimini militantis ecclesia", 27 Sept., 1540). The term "Jesuit" (of fifteenth-century origin, meaning one who used too frequently or appropriated the name of Jesus), was first applied to the soci -
Feb 3, 1545
Council of Trent
One of the most important councils in the Roman Catholic Church. Here, they examine and sentence the teachings of Martin Luther and other Protestant reformer. As well as aboloshing abuses and strengthening the papacy. -
Feb 3, 1546
John Calvin
John Calvin quit law to study theology, he became a influential Protestant leader. Calvin was inspired by Luthers teachings on how the church should act. He also invented governing committees, this later became its seperate church as well. -
Period: Feb 3, 1556 to
Reign of Akbar
Akbar was Babur's grandson. All but the southern tip of India fell under Mughal rule under his reign and his 3 successors. He granted land revenues to military officers and government officials in return for their service. He stived for social harmony and not just for more territory and revenue. There was much dispute between Muslims and Hindus during his reign, but he desired for Muslim-Hindu reconciliation. -
Feb 3, 1564
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei is an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher that took part of the Scientific Revolution. He was also known for the improvement of the telescope and has been called the "father of modern observational astronomy". -
Period: Feb 4, 1572 to
Reign of Emporer Wanli
The Wanli emperor was a recluse whose apparent inattention to government affairs contributed to the abuses of power by provincial officials and other political figures that came to dominate that era of Chinese history. The violence and corruption among leaders of the northern provinces led to much popular dissatisfaction and unrest, preparing the way for the invasion from the north by the Manchu, who subsequently conquered all of China and established the Qing dynasty (1644–1911). -
Spanish Armada
The Spanish Armada sailed from Spain in July 1588. The Spanish Armada's task was to overthrow protestant England lead by Queen Elizabeth I. The Spanish Armada proved to be an expensive disaster for the Spanish but for the English it was a celebrated victory making Sir Francis Drake even more of a hero than he already was and even having an impact on Tudor Christmas celebrations! -
Tokugama Shogunate
The Tokugama Shogunate was the first to establish political unity and economic intergration in Japan. During this reign the military was adapted to the needs of the state, and more educated. By the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Japan had closely modernized themselves. It was the last of the three shogunates of Japan -
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Thirty Years' War
This caused the long lasting depopulation and economic decline in much of the Holy Roman Empire. It started between the German Catholics and Protestants over their rights and how power would be given. In the end, besides this war,came out the prinicple of balanced of power. -
Peace of Westphalia
The Thirty Years War was ended by the Peace of Westphalia which was referred to as the "Peace of Exhaustion" by contemporaries. The Peace of Westphalia was not one specific treaty but rather a collection of treaties commonly linked by the fact that they brought the Thirty Years War to an end. France and Sweden had already agreed at the Treaty of Hamburg that there should be a European return to the status quo of 1618. -
John Locke
John Locke was an English political philosopher that gave much contribution to the Enlightenment. He argued that the rulers are a subject to the law and authority shouldn't be given by divine right. This resulted later on in a rebellion for civil rights and caused a major change in the government. -
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Qing Empire
The Qing Dynasty aka Empire of the Great Qing or Great Qing, was the last imperial dynasty of China. The Manchu family started the Qing Empire, even though there were little people of this decent.They adopted Chinese institutions and philosophy to a higher degree than of the Yuan Dynasty and were more conservative and adamant than the Ming Dynasty. -
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Seven Years' War
The Seven Years War, a global conflict known in America as the French and Indian War, officially begins when England declares war on France. However, fighting and skirmishes between England and France had been going on in North America for years. -
Establishment of 1st colony in Australia
A number of European explorers sailed the coast of Australia, then known as New Holland, in the 17th century. However it wasn’t until 1770 that Captain James Cook chartered the east coast and claimed it for Britain. The new outpost was put to use as a penal colony and on 26 January 1788, the First Fleet of 11 ships carrying 1,500 people – half of them convicts – arrived in Sydney Harbour. Until penal transportation ended in 1868, 160,000 men and women came to Australia as convicts. -
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Hatian Revolution
The Haitian Revolution created the second independent country in the Americas after the United States became independent in 1783. U.S. political leaders, many of them slaveowners, reacted to the emergence of Haiti as a state borne out of a slave revolt with ambivalence, at times providing aid to put down the revolt, and, later in the revolution, providing support to Toussaint L’Ouverture’s forces. -
End of the British Slave Trade
Slavery Remembrance Day is observed on 23 August every year.The Slave Trade Act of 1807 was a momentous achievement for the abolitionists, making it illegal for British ships to carry enslaved peoples between Africa, the West Indies and America. In addition, ship owners were unable to purchase insurance on vessels carrying slave cargo.
