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Period: Sep 13, 1096 to Sep 25, 1291
crusades are fought
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Oct 2, 1300
renaissance begins
“Renaissance” means “rebirth” in the French language. The Renaissance was a rebirth in many different ways. -
Sep 25, 1337
100 year of world begins
A hundred years ago today, the world took a massive turn. The Austro-Hungarian Empire declared war on Serbia, and World War I was on. -
Oct 2, 1347
black death begins in europe
The Black Death was one of many catastrophes to occur following an increase in population during the High Middle Ages (1000-1300). -
Period: Sep 25, 1368 to
Ming Dynasty in china
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Period: Oct 14, 1405 to Oct 14, 1433
voyages of zheng he
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Sep 25, 1431
joan of arc bruned at the stake
Joan was born in 1412, the daughter of a tenant farmer at Domremy, on the borders of the duchies of Bar and Lorraine. In 1415, the Hundred Years War between England and France -
Oct 1, 1453
ottomans conquer constantinople
The Fall of Constantinople was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire, which occurred after a siege by the Ottoman Empire -
Oct 2, 1455
djohannes gutenberg-printing press
Johannes Gutenberg was born 1395, in Mainz, Germany. He started experimenting with printing by 1438. He obtained backing in 1450 from the financier Johann Fust -
Oct 14, 1458
elizabeth iI become queen of england
Her Majesty the Queen was born on 21 April 1926 in London, the first child of Prince Albert, The Duke of York, and his wife, formerly Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. -
Sep 25, 1491
Henry VIII founds Anglician church
The name "Anglican" means "of England", but the Anglican church exists worldwide. It began in the sixth century in England, when Pope Gregory the Great sent St. -
Sep 25, 1492
1st voyage of columbus
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Oct 14, 1492
jews , gypsies and moors expelled from spain
A Jew turned Christian (Catholic), whether voluntarily or forcibly, not necessarily a Marrano. Following the forced baptism of 1497 in Portugal -
Sep 25, 1498
Da Gama lands in india
Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama becomes the first European to reach India via the Atlantic Ocean when he arrives at Calicut on the Malabar Coast. -
Oct 14, 1500
slave trade across atlantic
The term 'Middle Passage' is often used to describe the period that enslaved Africans endured in the holds of slave ships as they crossed the Atlantic. -
Period: Oct 2, 1501 to
safavid emipre
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Sep 25, 1502
Naming of the new world
AMERICA, we learn as schoolchildren, was named in honor of Amerigo Vespucci, for his discovery of the mainland of the New World. -
Period: Sep 25, 1503 to Sep 25, 1506
Da vinci paints the mona lisa
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Oct 2, 1508
michelangelo begins painting sistine chapel
Was it divine intervention that compelled Michelangelo (1475 -1564) to climb up a scaffold in 1508 to begin the painting of the Sistine Chapel ceiling -
Sep 25, 1517
martin lutherpost 95 theses
Martin Luther (1483–1546) was born in Eisleben, Saxony (now Germany), part of the Holy Roman Empire, to parents Hans and Margaretta. -
Oct 14, 1520
Magellan starts his around the world trip
It began slowly. He served as a junior sailor onboard ships sailing to India. He made a name for himself as an able sailor and especially on one voyage -
Oct 14, 1526
mughal empire begins
The Mughal Empire is sometimes spelled in English as the Mogul Empire, and they were invaders into India from Afghanistan, Iran and the Muslim states in Southern Russia -
Oct 14, 1537
Pizarro invades the inca empire
Little did the residents of the massive Inca empire know that they would soon be learning Spanish in Peru. Their adoption of the rapidly-spreading Spanish language would be symptomatic -
Oct 2, 1543
copernicus publishes heliocentric theory
Polish name: Mikolaj Kopernik. Polish astronomer and mathematician who, as a student, studied canon law, mathematics, and medicine at Cracow, Bologna, Rome, Padua, and Ferrara. -
Period: Oct 1, 1545 to Oct 1, 1563
council or trent
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Period: Oct 1, 1556 to
philip II rules spain
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age of enlightenment
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jamestown colony in virginia founded
Jamestown, founded in 1607, was the first successful permanent English settlement in what would become the United States. -
louis XIV becomes king of france
Louis XIV was born on September 5, 1638, in Saint-Germaine-en-Laye, France. He became king in 1643. As of 1661, he started reforming France. -
Qing dynasty in china begins
During the latter Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644), a nomadic tribe known as the Nvzhen people once lived in what is today northeast China. -
thomas hobbes writes leviathan
The 17th Century English philosopher Thomas Hobbes is now widely regarded as one of a handful of truly great political philosophers -
oliver cromwell rules england
Oliver Cromwell was born on 25 April 1599 in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire into a family of minor gentry and studied at Cambridge University. -
peter 1 (the great) becomes czar
Oliver Cromwell was born on 25 April 1599 in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire into a family of minor gentry and studied at Cambridge University. -
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catherine the great rules russia
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french revolution
A watershed event in modern European history, the French Revolution began in 1789 and ended in the late 1790s with the ascent of Napoleon Bonaparte. -
U.S. constitution is ratified
When a bill of rights was proposed in Congress in 1789, North Carolina ratified the Constitution. Finally, Rhode Island, which had rejected the Constitution in March 1788 by popular referendum -
reign of terror begins
September 5: The Reign of Terror begins when Robespierre declares Terror "the order of the day." This marks the beginning of almost two years of repressing -
napoleon becomes emperor
Napoleon Bonaparte was born on 15 August 1769 in Corsica into a gentry family. Educated at military school, he was rapidly promoted and in 1796 -
napoleon defeated @ waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo, which took place in Belgium on June 18, 1815, marked the final defeat of French military leader -
tokugawa shogunate ends
For more than 100 years before the Tokugawa Shogunate took power in Japan in 1603, the country wallowed in lawlessness and chaos
