Unit 4 Timeline

  • Jan 1, 1450

    Printing Press in Europe (Gutenberg)

  • Jan 1, 1453

    Ottomans capture Constantinople

  • Jan 1, 1480

    Height of Aztec Empire

  • Jan 1, 1488

    Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope

  • Jan 1, 1492

    Columbus/Reconquista of Spain

  • Jan 1, 1502

    First African Slaves to the Americas

  • Jan 1, 1517

    Martin Luther/Protestant Reformation

  • Period: Jan 1, 1519 to Dec 31, 1521

    Cortez conquered the Aztecs

  • Period: Jan 1, 1521 to Dec 31, 1523

    Magellan circumnavigates

  • Jan 1, 1529

    First unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna

    (Suleiman the Magnificent)
  • Jan 1, 1533

    Pizarro topples the Inca

  • Jan 1, 1545

    Discovery of silver at Potosi

  • Jan 1, 1571

    First Manila Galleon

    (global trade of silver)
  • Jan 6, 1571

    Battle of Lepanto

    (Ottoman naval defeat)
  • Spanish Armada

  • Battle of Sekigahara

    (beg of Tokugawa shogunate)
  • Foundation of Jamestown

  • Period: to

    30 Years Wars

  • Period: to

    Qing Dynasty

  • Cape Town colony founded

    (Dutch)
  • 2nd unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna

    (Mehmet IV)
  • Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights