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Nov 4, 1300
Rennaissance begins
The Italian Renaissance was the earliest manifestation of the general European Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement that began in Italy during the 14th century and lasted until the 16th century, marking the transition between Medieval and Early Modern Europe. -
Dec 21, 1418
Prince Henry founds navigation school in Portugal
About 1418, Prince Henry started the first school for oceanic navigation along with an astronomical observatory at Sagres, Portugal. In this school, people were trained in nagivation, map-making, and science, in order to sail down the west of Africa. -
May 29, 1453
Byzantine capital of Constantinople conquered and renamed Istanbul by the Muslim Ottomans
The fall of Constantinople was the capture of Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, which occurred after a siege by the invading Ottoman Empire, under the command of 21-year-old Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, against the defending army commanded by Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos. The siege lasted from Friday, 6 April 1453 until Tuesday, 29 May 1453. -
Aug 18, 1492
Columbus' first voyage
He made four voyages to the Americas, the first being in 1492, which resulted in the Discovery of America from a European point of view. -
Jun 7, 1494
Treaty of Tordesillas
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Dec 13, 1504
Michelangelo's David
David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created between 1501 and 1504, by the Italian artist Michelangelo. The statue represents the Biblical hero David, a favoured subject in the art of Florence. -
Mar 28, 1506
Leonardo da vinci painted the Mona Lisa
The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world. -
Aug 4, 1511
Erasmus writes praise of folly
Praise of folly is an essay written in Latin in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam and first printed in 1511 -
Aug 16, 1512
Michelanglo's painting of the Sistine chapel
The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, is a cornerstone work of High Renaissance art. -
Aug 13, 1519
Cortez conquers the Aztecs
The campaign began in February 1519, and was declared victorious on August 13, 1521, when a coalition army of Spanish forces and native Tlaxcalan warriors led by Hernán Cortés and Xicotencatl the Younger captured Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire. -
Feb 2, 1532
Pizzaro conquers the Incas
169 Spanish soldiers under Francisco Pizarro and their native allies captured the Sapa Inca Atahualpa in the 1532 Battle of Cajamarca. It was the first step in a long campaign that took decades of fighting but ended in Spanish victory and colonization of the region as the Viceroyalty of Peru. -
Shakespear writes the tragedy of julius caesar
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1599. It portrays the 44 BC conspiracy against the Roman dictator Julius Caesar, his assassination and the defeat of the conspirators at the Battle of Philippi. -
Taj Mahal built
In 1631, Shah Jahan, emperor during the Mughal empire's period of greatest prosperity, was grief-stricken when his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal, died during the birth of their 14th child, Gauhara Begum. -
Storming of Bastille
The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France on the morning of 14 July 1789. The medieval fortress and prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris. The prison only contained seven inmates at the time of its storming but was a symbol of the abuses of the monarchy: its fall was the flashpoint of the French Revolution. -
Death of Louis XVI
The execution of Louis XVI, by means of the guillotine, took place on 21 January 1793 at the Place de la Revalution -
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Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror also known simply as The Terror, was a period of violence that occurred after the onset of the French Revolution, incited by conflict between rival political factions, the Girondins and the Jacobins, and marked by mass executions of "enemies of the revolution". -
Napoleon becomes emperor.
Napoleon was crowned in Notre Dame, Pope Pius VII handed Napoleon the crown. First emperor of France in over 500 years. -
Congress of Vienna meets
The Congress of Vienna was a conference of ambassadors of European states , and held in Vienna from September 1814 to June 1815. The objective of the Congress was to settle the many issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. -
Napleon dies
After the battle of waterloo Napleon was exiled onto an island, his cause of death was unknown.
