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  • Mar 24, 1300

    Marco Polo publishes the Marvels of the World

    This book gives details about Marco Polo and his fathers travels across the West Indies and the exotic treasures to be found there.
  • Period: Mar 24, 1300 to

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  • Mar 24, 1450

    Johannes Guttenberg invents the printer press

    This invention makes books more accesible to everyday people
  • Oct 12, 1492

    Christopher Columbus lands on San Salvodor

    One of the many people inspired by Marco Polo's tells of the riches in the West Indies is Marco Polo. He attempted to sail to the West Indies but, he mistakingly lands in the Bahamas
  • Feb 1, 1519

    Hernan Cortes begins the Spanish capture upon the Aztec Empire

    Cortes and a group of Spanish Conquitstadors begin a conquest to take down the Aztec Empire
  • Mar 24, 1532

    Francisco Pizzaro leads an attack on the Incan tribe

  • Mar 24, 1534

    France hires Jacques Cartier to find the Northwest Passage

  • Sir Walter Raleigh founds the Roanoke Colony

  • Roanoke is found with no people and no housing

    Roanoke semmingly disappears off the face of the Earth. There are a lot of theories of what happened ,but no one knows for sure what happened to the people of Roanoke

  • John Smith creates the Jamestown settlement

  • Henry Hudson is hired to find the Northwest Passage

    He also claims the Hudson river.

  • Samuel de Champlain sails the St.Lawrence river and establishses a trading post called Quebec

    The French use this post to sell fur.

  • The Starving Time in Jamestown

    In Jamestown after John Smith got injured by a gun powder accident the trade breaks down between the people of Jamestown and the Indians resulting in them losing their major food source. Also without John Smith telling the nobles to work they just stopped working all together.

  • The Dutch settle in New Netherlands

  • Bridget Bishop is the first woman in a series of people convicted of witchcraft

  • The Great Awakening

    People in the old world felt like people from the New World lost touch with relgion so they sent pastors over to do revivals

  • The British establish the 13 colonies

  • The French and Indian War begins

  • The Boston Tea Party protest

  • The Slave Trade Peaks

  • Ohio becomes a state

  • Colombus becomes Ohios peremenant capital

  • Brown v. Board reaches the supreme court

    This case takes away seperate,but equal.

  • Emmet Till murder

    Emmet Till is murdered for whistling at a white woman

  • Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat

  • Martin Luther King founds the SCLC

  • The SNCC is founded by black college students

  • MArtin Luther King delivers the I have a dream speech

  • Malcolm X delivers his the Ballot or the Bullet Speech

  • Malcolm X is gunned down by members of the Nation of Islam

  • The SCLC sponsers the Selma to Montgomery march

    This first attempt the marchers were met with violence from policeand angry whites tis came to be known as "Bloody Sunday". The second attempt two days later Martin Luther King gets to pettus bridge and tells everyone to go home after a quick prayer.

  • The Black Panthers were founded by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale

  • Martin Luther king is shot and killed by James Earl Ray

  • Rosa Parks dies