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Jan 1, 900
P. S. (Pre-Script)
If an event or timespan happens or begins/ends on January 1st, then I didn't find the specific date only the year. The events that take place on Jan. 1st, 1450 are things that are applicable to the entire unit (not just one date). -
Period: Jan 1, 962 to
Holy Roman Empire
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Period: Jan 1, 1299 to
Ottoman Empire
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Period: Jan 23, 1368 to
Ming Dynasty China
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Period: Mar 4, 1394 to Nov 13, 1460
Prince Henry the Navigator
This dude funded a lot of voyages and layed the groundwork for Europeans getting around Africa. -
Period: Jan 1, 1405 to Jan 1, 1433
Zheng He Goes on some Voyages
Zheng He was the the Chinese fleet admiral to the Yongle Emperor and led expeditionary voyages in the Indian Ocean. He commanded a massive fleet who's flagships were 120 meters long (compared to the Santa Maria's 26 meters). -
Period: Jan 1, 1415 to
Portuguese Colonial Empire
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Period: Jan 1, 1420 to
The Forbidden City
The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the Ming dynasty to the end of the Qing dynasty. -
Period: Mar 15, 1428 to Aug 19, 1521
Aztec Empire
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Period: Mar 30, 1432 to May 3, 1481
Mehmed II the Conquerer
A sultan of the Ottoman Empire, he conquered Constantinople at the age of 21. He also extended the Ottoman Empire into Anatolia. -
Period: Jan 1, 1438 to Jan 1, 1572
Inca Empire
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Jan 1, 1439
Johannes Gutenburg Introduces the Movable Printing Press to Europe
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Jan 1, 1450
Diaspora
A diaspora is a scattered population whose origin lies within a smaller geographic locale. Diaspora can also refer to the movement of the population from its original homeland. Diaspora has come to refer particularly to historical mass dispersions of an involuntary nature, such as the Trans-Atlantic African Slave Trade. -
Jan 1, 1450
Neo-Confucianism
Neo-Confucianism was an attempt to create a more rationalist and secular form of Confucianism by rejecting superstitious and mystical elements of Taoism and Buddhism that had influenced Confucianism during and after the Han Dynasty. -
Jan 1, 1450
Trans-Atlantic Triangle Trade
Triangular trade or triangle trade is a historical term indicating trade among three ports or regions. The best-known triangular trading system is the transatlantic slave trade, that operated from the late 16th to early 19th centuries, carrying slaves, cash crops, and manufactured goods between West Africa, Caribbean or American colonies and the European colonial powers, with the northern colonies of British North America, especially New England, sometimes taking over the role of Europe. -
May 29, 1453
Fall of Constantinople
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Period: Jan 1, 1464 to Jan 1, 1492
Sunni Ali
The ruler of the Songhai Empire who brought it to its largest and most powerful state. -
Period: Jan 1, 1464 to
Songhai Empire
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Period: Jan 1, 1469 to Jan 1, 1524
Niccolo Machiavelli
Attributed as the founder of modern political science. Wrote a book which inspired much of it, "The Prince". -
Period: Jan 1, 1471 to Jun 26, 1541
Francisco Pizarro
A Spanish conquistador who killed Atahualpa, conquering the Incan Empire and claiming it's lands for Spain. -
Period: Jan 1, 1478 to
Spanish Inquisition
The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition, commonly known as the Spanish Inquisition, was established in 1478 by Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile. It was intended to maintain Catholic orthodoxy in their kingdoms and to replace the Medieval Inquisition, which was under Papal control. -
Period: Nov 10, 1483 to Feb 18, 1546
Martin Luther
A dissident of the Catholic Church he posted his Ninety-Five Theses that rebuked the church and challenged their authority. He and his teachings caused the Reformation. -
Period: Jan 1, 1485 to Dec 2, 1547
Hernán Cortés
A Spanish conquistador in the first wave of Spanish colonizers, he conquered a large portion of Central America, and brought down the Aztec Empire. -
Period: Jul 17, 1487 to May 23, 1524
Ismail I
The founder of the Safavid dynasty in Persia. He unified all of Iran as well. -
Jan 1, 1488
Bartolomeu Dias Rounds the "Cape of Storms"
Bart was the first European explorer to reach the Indian Ocean by traveling around what is now the Cape of Good Hope. -
Period: Jan 1, 1492 to
Spanish Empire
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Period: Jan 1, 1492 to
British Empire
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Oct 12, 1492
Christopher Columbus "Discovers" the Americas
Columbus sails across the Atlantic Ocean and becomes the man credited with the discovery of the Americas, despite the millions of people already living there, as well as the fact that Leif Erikson discovered them hundreds of years earlier. -
Oct 13, 1492
The Columbian Exchange
A period of cultural and biological exchanges between the New and Old Worlds. Exchanges of plants, animals, diseases and technology transformed European and Native American ways of life. -
Sep 5, 1494
The Treaty of Tordesillas
The Treaty of Tordesillas divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Portugal and the Crown of Castile, along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa. -
Period: Nov 6, 1494 to Sep 6, 1566
Suleiman the Magnificent
The tenth, and longest reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire. -
Period: Jan 1, 1497 to Jan 1, 1499
Vasco de Gama Voyages to India
The first European to reach the Indian Ocean by sea. (traveling around Africa) -
Period: Jan 1, 1502 to Jul 26, 1533
Atahualpa
The last Incan emperor before the Spanish conquest, his execution effectively ended the Incan Empire. -
Period: Jan 1, 1502 to Jun 29, 1520
Montezuma II
The ninth and last ruler of the Aztec Empire, and brought the empire to it's greatest size ever. Was killed by Hernán Cortés and his men. -
Period: Jan 1, 1502 to
Safavid Dynasty Persia
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Period: Jul 10, 1509 to May 27, 1564
John Calvin
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Jan 1, 1513
Vasco de Balboa Crosses the Panama Isthmus to the Pacific Ocean
Vasco de Balboa (ca.1475-1519) becomes the first European explorer to reach the Pacific Ocean from the New World. -
Aug 23, 1514
The Battle of Chaldiran
The Battle of Chaldiran ended with a decisive victory for the Ottoman Empire over the Safavid Empire. As a result, the Ottomans annexed eastern Anatolia and northern Iraq from Safavid Iran for the first time. -
Jan 1, 1517
The Reformation is Begun
A schism from the Roman Catholic Church initiated by Martin Luther. -
Period: Jan 1, 1519 to Jan 1, 1522
Ferdinand Magellan Doesn't Personally Circumnavigate the Globe
Magellan leads the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe, but does not complete the journey himself. He dies en route, at the Battle of Mactan in the Philippines. -
Period: Jan 1, 1526 to
Mughal Empire
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Period: Jan 1, 1534 to
French Colonial Empire
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Sep 27, 1540
Saint Ignatius of Loyola Founds the Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
Ignatius and six other young men, including Francis Xavier and Peter Faber, gathered and professed vows of poverty, chastity, and later obedience, including a special vow of obedience to the Pope in matters of mission direction and assignment. His Society was canonized by Pope Paul III in 1540 -
Period: Oct 15, 1542 to
Abu'l-Fath Jalal ud-din Muhammad Akbar, popularly known as Akbar I
The third emperor of the Mughal Empire in India, and one of it's greatest rulers. Extended his influence to encompass the entire Indian subcontinent. -
Period: Jan 31, 1543 to
Tokugawa Ieyasu
The first and founding shogun in the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan.
He was one of the three men who unified Japan and conquered Kyoto. -
May 24, 1543
Nicholas Copernicus Places the Sun at the Center of the Universe
Before his death, Copernicus' book "On The Revolutions of Celestial Spheres" which held the theory for a new cosmology, was published. -
Period: Jan 1, 1545 to Jan 1, 1563
The Council of Trent
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Period: Jan 1, 1545 to
Catholic (Counter) Reformation
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Period: Oct 6, 1552 to
Matteo Ricci
A priest who was the first European to be invited into the Forbidden City of Beijing. He was the most prominent Jesuit priest to work in China and helped translate Confucian classics to Latin. -
Period: Feb 15, 1564 to
Galileo Galilei
A great scientist who played a major role in the scientific revolution. Deemed the "father of observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of scientific method", and the "father of science". -
Period: May 4, 1564 to
Rule of the Kangxi Emperor
Considered one of the greatest Chinese emperors, he suppressed several revolts, including the Revolt of the Three Feudatories. He was the longest-reigning Chinese emperor in history and brought about a golden age, the "High Qing" era. -
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Thomas Hobbes; Author of Leviathan; Founder of Modern Political Philosophy
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East India Trading Company
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Tokugawa Shogunate
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The First Joint Stock Company is Made
A business, often backed by a government charter, that sold shares to individuals to raise money for its trading enterprises and to spread the risks (and profits) among many investors. -
Jamestown is Built
The Jamestown settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. -
Quebec City Founded
Quebec City is one of the oldest European settlements in North America. While many of the major cities in Latin America date from the sixteenth century, among cities in Canada and the U.S., few were created earlier than Quebec. -
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John Locke; Father of Liberalism
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"Dutch Learning"
Dutch Learning is a body of knowledge developed by Japan through its contacts with the Dutch enclave of Dejima, which allowed Japan to keep abreast of Western technology and medicine in the period when the country was closed to foreigners -
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Rule of King Louis XIV; the Sun King of France
Louis XIV had the longest reign of any European monarch and led his country to become one of the foremost powers of the Western world. -
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Voltaire is Awesome
Ridicules the established Catholic Church, advocates freedom of speech and freedom of religion, roasts everyone who crosses him. -
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Qianlong Emperor
The longest de facto ruler of China and the one to bring Qing China to it's largest and most prosperous ever. The sixth Qing emperor. -
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Jean-Jacques Rouseau
Influences modern political philosophy and educational thought. -
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The Age of Enlightenment (approximately)
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Russian Empire
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The Seven Years' War
The Seven Years' War was a war fought between 1754 and 1763, the main conflict occurring in the seven-year period from 1756 to 1763. It involved every European great power of the time except the Ottoman Empire. -
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Peter and Catherine the Great Make Russia Great (Not Again)