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Period: Oct 7, 1096 to Oct 7, 1291
Crusades are fought
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Oct 7, 1300
Renaissance begins
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Period: Sep 25, 1337 to Sep 25, 1453
100 Years War begins
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Oct 7, 1347
Black Death begins in Europe
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Period: Oct 7, 1368 to
Ming Dynasty in China
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Oct 7, 1400
Johannes Gutenberg-printing press
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Period: Oct 13, 1405 to Oct 13, 1433
Voyages of Zheng He
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Sep 25, 1431
Joan of Arc burned at the stake
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Oct 7, 1453
Ottomans conquer Constantinople
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Sep 25, 1492
Jews, Gypsies, and Moors expelled from Spain
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Oct 7, 1492
1st voyage of Columbus
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Sep 25, 1498
Da Gama lands in India
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Period: Sep 25, 1500 to
Slave trade across Atlantic
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Period: Sep 25, 1501 to
Safavid Empire
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Sep 25, 1502
Naming of the New World
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Period: Sep 25, 1503 to Sep 25, 1506
Da Vinci paints Mona Lisa
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Oct 7, 1508
Michaelangelo begins painting Sistine Chapel
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Mar 12, 1517
Martin Luther posts 95 Theses
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Oct 7, 1519
Magellan starts his "around the world" trip
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Sep 25, 1526
Mughal Empire begins
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Oct 7, 1534
Henry VIII founds Anglican Church
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Oct 7, 1537
Pizarro invades Inca Empire
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Oct 7, 1543
Copernicus publishes heliocentric theory
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Aug 28, 1545
Council of Trent
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Period: Oct 7, 1545 to Oct 7, 1563
Council of Trent
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Period: Sep 25, 1556 to
Philip II rules Spain
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Period: to
Age of Elightenment
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Jamestown, colony in Virgina, founded
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Louis XIV becomes king of France
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Qing Dynasty in China begins
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Thomas Hobbes writes Leviathan
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Period: to
Oliver Cromweill rules England
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Peter I (the Great) becomes czar
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Period: to
Catherine the Great rules Russia
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U.S Constitution is ratified
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French Revolution begins
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Reign of Terror begins
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Napoleon becomes Emperor
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Napolean defeated at Waterloo
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Tokugawa Shogunate ends