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Period: Jan 1, 1000 to
Chapter 17
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Period: Feb 3, 1300 to
Chapter 19-20
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May 17, 1394
Prince Henry of Portugal is Born
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Mar 14, 1402
Yonglo becomes Ming Emperor
The Yongle Emperor formerly romanized as the Yung-lo or Yonglo Emperor, was the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty in China, reigning from 1402 to 1424. -
Aug 6, 1405
Zheng He captains his first voyage
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Apr 5, 1448
Johan Gutenberg invents the Printing Press
He was important because he invented the printing press which made peoples life easier. -
May 29, 1451
B. Dias reaches Cape of Good Hope
Bartolomeu Dias was a Knight of the royal court, superintendent of the royal warehouses, and sailing-master of the man-of-war. -
May 4, 1453
The Hundred Years' War ends
The Hundred Year's War was a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of France for control of the French throne. -
May 29, 1453
Fall of Constantinople to the Turks
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Jan 2, 1492
Ferdinand & Isabella end war with Muslims
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Oct 12, 1492
Christopher Columbus spots land in North American
Between 1492 and 1503, Columbus completed four round-trip voyages between Spain and the Americas, all of them under the sponsorship of the Crown of Castile. -
Jun 7, 1494
Spain and Portugal agree to Treaty of Tordesillas
agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at settling conflicts over lands newly discovered or explored by Christopher Columbus and other late 15th-century voyagers. -
May 20, 1498
Vasco da Gama lands in India
Vasco de Gama becomes the first European to reach India via the Atlantic Ocean when he arrives at Calicut on the Malabar Coast. -
Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
Chapter 21
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Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
Chapter 22
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Aug 17, 1501
Donatello creates his David statue
The statue of David symbolize the defense of civil liberties embodies in the Florentine Republic, an independent city-state. -
Mar 20, 1503
Leonardo Da Vinci starts the Mona Lisa
It is "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most pariodied work of art in the world." -
Sep 15, 1508
Michelangelo paints the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
The Sistine Chapel is a cornerstone work of high Renaissance Art. -
Dec 30, 1509
Raphael paints School of Athens
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Feb 10, 1513
Machiavelli writes "The Prince"
The printed copy of "The Prince" was not published untill five years after Machiavelli died. -
Oct 31, 1517
Martin Luther posts his 95 Thesis
The background of the 95 Thesis centers on practices within the Catholic Church regarding baptism and absolution. -
Oct 26, 1522
First slave revolts in Hispaniola
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Mar 19, 1530
H. Cortez lands on Mexican coast
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Jul 24, 1534
Jacques Cartier claims land in Canada
Cartier's professional abilities can be easily ascertained. Considering that Cartier made three voyages of exploration in dangerous and hitherto unknown waters without losing a ship, and that he entered and departed some 50 undiscovered harbors without serious mishap, he may be considered one of the most conscientious explorers of the period. -
May 19, 1536
Anne Boleyn is executed
Anne Boleyn was the Queen of England and was the second wife of Henry THe VIII. -
Oct 12, 1537
Edward VI is born
Edward VI was king of England and Ireland. -
Apr 19, 1541
Ignatius of Loyola founds the Jesuit order
Ignatius was a spanish knight from a local Basque family. -
Mar 9, 1547
When did Ivan the Terrible take the throne?
as the Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 to 1547 and Tsar of All the Russias from 1547 until his death. -
Jul 19, 1553
Mary I becomes Queen
Her exucautions of protestants caused her opponents to give her the sobrriquet "Bloody Mary" -
Jan 6, 1556
When did Philip II become king of Spain
During Philip's reign there were separate state bankruptcies in 1557, 1560, 1575, and 1596. This was partly the cause for the declaration of independence which created the Dutch Republic in 1581. -
Nov 17, 1558
Elizabeth I becomes Queen
Queen Elizabeth was sometimes called "The Virgin Queen", "Gloriana" or "Good Queen Bess" -
When was the defeat of the Spanish Armada?
was a Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from A Coruña in August 1588 under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia with the purpose of escorting an army from Flanders to invade England. -
English East India Company is founded
originally chartered as the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies, and more properly called the Honourable East India Company, -
Johannes Kepler mathematically proves Copernicus and Brahe
In October 1604, a bright new evening star appeared, but Kepler did not believe the rumors until he saw it himself. -
Dutch East India Company is founded
was a chartered company established in 1602, when the States-General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out colonial activities in Asia. -
Henry Hudson is last seen
Hudson made two attempts on behalf of English merchants to find a prospective Northwest Passage to Cathay (today's China) via a route above the Arctic Circle. Hudson explored the region around modern New York metropolitan area while looking for a western route to Asia while in the employment of the Dutch East India Company. He explored the river which eventually was named for him, and laid thereby the foundation for Dutch colonization of the region. -
William Shakespeare dies
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When did the Thirty Years' war began?
was a series of wars principally fought in Central Europe, involving most of the countries of Europe. It was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history, and one of the longest continuous wars in modern history. -
When did Cardinal Richelieu become ruler of France?
Consecrated as a bishop in 1608, he later entered politics, becoming a Secretary of State in 1616. Richelieu soon rose in both the Catholic Church and the French government, becoming a Cardinal in 1622, and King Louis XIII's chief minister in 1624. He remained in office until his death in 1642; he was succeeded by Cardinal Mazarin, whose career he had fostered. -
Galileo publishes his many findings in Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
The open-minded and lettered Sagredo in Galileo's dialogue was a close friend of the scientist.
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New Netherlands becomes New York
New Netherland was a 17th-century colonial province of the Seven United Netherlands that was located on the East Coast of North America. The claimed territories extended from the Delmarva Peninsula to extreme southwestern Cape Cod, while the more limited settled areas are now part of the Mid-Atlantic States of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Connecticut, with small outposts in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. The provincial capita -
Thomas Hobbes outlines the social contract in Leviathan
A book written by Thomas Hobbes and published in 1651. -
La Salle claim Mississippi River for Spain
The Expeditions of René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle were a series of trips into the Mississippi and Ohio Valley by French explorers led by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle that began in the late 1660s and continued for two decades. -
Isaac Newton published his laws of gravity
He is famous for his work on the laws of motion, optics, gravity, and calculus. -
When was the Gorious Revolution?
The Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau. -
Britain passes the Navigation Acts
Navigation Acts were a continuation of laws that restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between England and its colonies. -
When did Peter the Great's Great Embassy first sail?
The goal of this mission was to strengthen and broaden the Holy League, Russia's alliance with a number of European countries against the Ottoman Empire in its struggle for the northern coastline of the Black Sea, hire foreign specialists for Russian service, and to order and acquire military supplies and weapons. -
When did the War of Spanish Succession end?
was fought between European powers, including a divided Spain, over who had the right to succeed Charles II as King of Spain. -
When did Louis XIV die?
Louis XIV (Louis the Great) was a monarch the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of France and Navarre from 1643 until his death. -
Gabriel Fahrenheit makes the first mercury in glas thermeter
he determined his scale by reference to three fixed points of temperature. -
When did Fredrick the Great become king?
Frederick the Great was king of Prussia from 1740 to 1786, and he stands as one of the greatest of the Enlightened Despots. He was an absolute ruler, but he lived under the principle that he was the "first servant of the state." -
Anders Celsius creates his scale for measuring temperature
It is named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius who developed a similar temperature scale. -
Denis Diderot publishes the first volumes of his encyclopediea
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When did the Seven Years' war begin?
It involved most of the great powers of the time and affected Europe, North America, Central America, the West African coast, India, and the Philippines. -
Seven Years' War begins
The Seven Years' War was a war that took place between 1754 and 1763 with the main conflict being in the seven-year period 1756–1763. It involved most of the great powers of the time and affected Europe, North America, Central America, the West African coast, India, and the Philippines. In the historiography of some countries, the war is alternatively named after combatants in the respective theatres: the French and Indian War as it is known in the United States or the War of the Conquest as it. -
Mary Wollstonecraft is born
was an eighteenth-century English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. -
George III became King of Great Britian
His life and reign, which were longer than any other British monarch before him, were marked by a series of military conflicts involving his kingdoms, much of the rest of Europe, and places farther afield in Africa, the Americas and Asia. -
Start of Parition of Poland
a series of three partitions that took place in the second half of the 18th century and ultimately ended the existence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, -
Boston Tea Pary
was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston -
The Declaration of Independence was signed
Independence Day, or the Fourth of July, celebrates the adoption by the Continental Congress of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. -
Lord Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown
was a decisive victory by a combined force of American Continental Army troops led by General George Washington and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by British lord and Lieutenant General Lord Cornwallis. -
When did Habeas Corpus begin?
Requires a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court. -
Beethoven Dies
was a German composer and pianist.
