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Jan 1, 1398
timur the lame destroys delhi
The sultan army was easly destroyed by Timur the lame. Sultan Muhamad Khan prepared 120 war elphants to defend him. He put poison on the tusk witch frightened the Tatar lines. Timur took action and dug out a trench in front od their position. Timur then took his camels and placed as much wood and hay on their back as he could. The war elephants charged them so he lit his camels on fire witch scared the elephants. So Timur the lame entered the city and destroyed it. -
Jan 1, 1402
Timur the lame crushed the otto man forces in the battle of akrana
The battle of Akran took place at Cubuk between Ottoman Sultan and Timmur the lame. The battle was a major victory for Timmur, and led to a period of crisi for the Ottoman empire. -
Jan 1, 1440
Gutenberg improves the printing press
Guetenburg invention was to make indivisual peaces with capital and lower case letters and punctiation marks. These items were then cast in qaunity as mirror image ans assembled to form words lines and pages. -
Jan 1, 1450
population declined due to plague
In the 14th century at least 75 mllion people on three continents due to the painful, highly contagous disesase died. It was origanated from flees on rats in china. In european cities, hundreds died daily and their bodies usally were thrown into mass graves. The plague devasted towns, rural communities, familes, and religous communities. -
Jan 1, 1453
hundred year war ends
The name the hundred year war has been used by historians since the begining of the nineteenth century to describe the long conflict that pitted the kings and king doms of france and england against each other from 1337 to 1453. Two factors lay at the orgin of the conflict. First the status of the dutchy of Guyenne thought it belong to the king of england. Second as the closests realtive of the last capetian king, the kings of england from 1337 claimed the crown of france. -
Jan 1, 1453
mehmed ll launched attack on constantinople
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Jan 1, 1509
Henry becomes king
When Henry VII died in 1509, this popular eighteen-year-old prince, known for his love of hunting and dancing, became King Henry VIII. Soon after he obtained the papal dispensation required to allow him to marry his brother's widow, Catherine of Aragon.In the first years of his reign Henry VIII effectively relied on Thomas Wolsey to rule for him, and by 1515 Henry had elevated him to the highest role in government: Lord Chancellor. -
Jan 1, 1514
Selim the grim defeated the safavids of persia at the battle of chaldiran
The Ottomans deployed heavy artillery and thousands of Janissaries equipped with gunpowder weapons behind a barrier of carts. The Safavids used cavalry to engage the Ottoman forces. The Safavids attacked the Ottoman wings in an effort to avoid the Ottoman artillery positioned at the center. However, the Ottoman artillery was highly maneuverable and the Safavids suffered disastrous losses.The advanced Ottoman weaponry was the deciding factor of the battle. -
Sep 17, 1517
The 95 theses
His “95 Theses,” which propounded two central beliefs—that the Bible is the central religious authority and that humans may reach salvation only by their faith and not by their deeds—was to spark the Protestant Reformation. -
Jan 1, 1520
Suleiman came to power
Sulieman known as the magnificent was the tenth and longest reigning sultan of the Ottoman empire, from 1520 to 1566. Suleiman became a prominent monarch of 16th-century Europe, presiding over the apex of the Ottoman Empire's military, political and economic power. -
Jan 1, 1529
German princes stay loyal to the pope
In 1529 german princes who stayed loyal to the pope agreed to join forces against luthers 95 thesis. Those who supported Luther signed a protest against that agreement. Still determined that his subjects should remain Catholic, Charles V went to waragainst the Protestant princes. -
Jan 1, 1540
The pope creates society of jesus
The Society of Jesus is a Christian male religious congregation of the Catholic Church. The members are called Jesuits. The society is engaged in evangelization and apostolic ministry in 112 nations on six continents. Jesuits work in education, founding schools, colleges, universities and seminaries, intellectual research, and cultural pursuits. Jesuits also give retreats, minister in hospitals and parishes and promote social justice. -
Jan 1, 1572
Violent clash between catholics and huguenots
In 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations, followed by a wave of Catholic mob violence. Both directed against the Huguenots French Calvinist Protestants, during the French Wars of Religion. Traditionally believed to have been instigated by Catherine de' Medici, the mother of King Charles IX. -
Abbas the great took the throne
Shah Abbas the great was the 5th Safivid Shah emoeror of Iran. He was considered of the Safavid dynasty. He was the son of Shah Mohammad. -
Mumtaz Mahal died at 39 giving birth to her 14 child
Mumtaz Mahal died in Burhanpur in 1631 AD while giving birth to her fourteenth child.She had been accompanying her husband while he was fighting a campaign in the Deccan Plateau. Her body was temporarily buried at Burhanpur in a walled pleasure garden known as Zainabad originally constructed by Shah Jahan's uncle Daniyal on the bank of the Tapti River.
