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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
chapter 17
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Period: Apr 24, 1300 to
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May 2, 1360
Yonglo becomes Ming Emperor
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Mar 4, 1394
prince henry of portugal born
Henry of Portugal, surnamed the "Navigator", Duke of Viseu, governor of the Algarve, was born at Oporto on the 4th of March 1394. -
Jul 11, 1405
zheng he captains his first voyage
In 1403, the Yongle Emperor ordered the construction of a huge fleet of ships capable of travel around the Indian Ocean. He put his trusted retainer, the Muslim eunuch Zheng He, in charge of construction. -
Jan 10, 1440
donatello create his david statue
Donatello's bronze statue of David is famous as the first unsupported standing work of bronze cast during the Renaissance, and the first freestanding nude male sculpture made since antiquity. -
Feb 15, 1450
johannes gutenberg invent the printing press
His invention of mechanical movable type printing started the Printing Revolution and is widely regarded as the most important event of the modern period. -
Mar 12, 1453
the hundred years' war ends
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Apr 6, 1453
fall of constantinople to the turks
The siege of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire and one of the most heavily fortified cities in the world, took place in 1453. Sultan Mehmed II, ruler of the Ottoman Turks, led the assault. The city was defended by, at most, 10,000 men. -
Mar 9, 1454
amerigo vespucci charts new world coast
Amerigo Vespucci, representing Italian Bankers traveled to the new world in 1499. -
Feb 3, 1488
B. dias reaches cape of good hope
There is a misconception that the Cape of Good Hope is the southern tip of Africa, because it was once believed to be the dividing point between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. -
Jan 2, 1492
ferdinand & isabella end war with muslims
The ten-year war was not a continuous effort: it was a series of seasonal campaigns launched in the spring and postponed in the winter. -
Oct 12, 1492
c. columbus spots land in north america
Though Columbus was not the first European explorer to reach the Americas (having been preceded by the Norse expedition led by Leif Ericson in the 11th century[7]), Columbus' voyages led to the first lasting European contact with the Americas, inaugurating a period of European exploration, conquest, and colonization that lasted for several centuries. -
Jun 7, 1494
Spain & Portugal agree to Treaty of Tordesillas
Treaty of Tordesillas, (June 7, 1494), agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at settling conflicts over lands newly discovered or explored by Christopher Columbus and other late 15th-century voyagers. -
Period: Jun 7, 1500 to
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Jan 10, 1503
Leonardo da Vinci starts the mona lisa
The painting, thought to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. -
Jan 13, 1508
Raphael paints School of Athens
The School of Athens, or Scuola di Atene in Italian, is one of the most famous frescoes by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. -
Apr 11, 1508
michelangelo paints the ceiling of the sistine chapel
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Jan 13, 1513
Machiavelli writes The Prince
Machiavelli did not write The Prince to become famous but instead wrote his book to achieve a position in the new Italian government. -
Apr 19, 1519
H. Cortez lands on Mexican coast
In March 1519 he landed at Tabasco, where he stayed for a time in order to gain intelligence from the local Indians. -
Dec 23, 1524
Vasco 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. -
Mar 10, 1530
when did Ivan the Terrible takes the throne
After a childhood of abuse and repression he destroyed his rivals and claimed the throne of Tsardom. He beat back the last of the Mongols, provided some large territotial expansion, and centralized the bureacracy. At the same time his blood thristy habits and cruel personality have made him infamous in history's annals as a lunatic ruler whom even his own people called "Terrible." -
Nov 16, 1532
F.Pizzaro meets Atahualpa
On November 16, 1532, Atahualpa, lord of the Inca Empire, was attacked and captured by Spanish conquistadors under Francisco Pizarro. -
Jan 28, 1534
Jacques Cartier claims land in Canada
When King Francis I of France decided in 1534 to send an expedition to explore the northern lands in the hope of discovering gold, spices, and a passage to Asia, Cartier received the commission. -
May 19, 1536
Anne Boleyn is executed
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Oct 18, 1537
Edward vi was born
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Apr 19, 1540
ignatius of loyola founds the jesuit order
After being seriously wounded in the Battle of Pamplona in 1521, he underwent a spiritual conversion while in recovery. -
Period: Mar 13, 1550 to
chapter 22
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Jul 19, 1553
Mary I becomes queen
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Nov 17, 1558
Elizabeth I becomes queen
Elizabeth set out to rule by good counsel, and she depended heavily on a group of trusted advisers led by William Cecil, Baron Burghley. -
when did William of Orange overthrows the Spanish Rule
The Dutch Republic—officially known as the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden), the Republic of the United Netherlands, or the Republic of the Seven United Provinces was a republic in Europe existing from 1581, when part of the Netherlands separated from Spanish rule, to 1795. It preceded the Batavian Republic, the United Kingdom of the Netherlands and ultimately the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands. -
when was the defeat of the spanish armada
A giant Spanish invasion fleet was completed by 1587, but Sir Francis Drake's daring raid on the Armada's supplies in the port of Cadiz delayed the Armada's departure until May 1588 -
when did battle in the english channel happen
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. -
when did phillip 2 become king of spain
king of the Portuguese (as Philip I, 1580–98), champion of the Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation. -
English East India Company is founded
Commonly associated with trade in basic commodities, which included cotton, silk, indigo dye, salt, saltpetre, tea and opium, the Company received a Royal Charter from Queen Elizabeth in 1600,[3] making it the oldest among several similarly formed European East India Companies. -
Johannes Kepler mathematically proves copernicus and Brahe
In order to prove his system, or to settle between the Copernican and Ptolemaic -
Dutch East India Company is founded
The Dutch East India Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie, VOC, "United East India Company") 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. -
when did Cardinal Richelieu becomes 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 -
Galileo publishes his many findings in Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
In 1610, Galileo published his Sidereus Nuncius describing the surprising observations that he had made with the new telescope, namely the phases of Venus and the Galilean moons of Jupiter. -
Henry Hudson is last seen
They were never found by subsequent rescue missions, nor was any trace found to identify them as having survived in that harsh land. -
william shakespeare dies
William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. -
when did the Thirty Years War start
A conflict over religion overterritory and for power among European ruling. -
Thamas Hobbes outlines the social contract in Leviathan
In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes argues that the state of nature is the worst possible way in which people could live. Because there is no higher authority to protect and enforce rights, and no guarantee that anything we own will be permanently ours, people are constantly under threat from other people. -
when did the reigon of Charles II-restoration
On his thirtieth birthday, 29 May 1660, he entered London. Charles had been invited home to England by parliament, thus beginning the `restoration' of the monarchy after eleven years of republican rule. -
New Netherlands becomes New York
In 1673, there was a short interruption of English rule when the Netherlands temporary regained the settlement. In 1674, New York was returned to the English, and in 1686 it became the first city in the colonies to receive a royal charter. -
when habeas corpus die
Habeas corpus is a writ that is used to bring a party who has been criminally convicted in state court into federal court. Usually, writs of habeas corpus are used to review the legality of the party’s arrest, imprisonment, or detention. The federal court’s review of a habeas corpus petition is considered to be collateral relief of a state court decision rather than direct review. -
When did Peter the Great become the Great Embassy
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La Salle claimed Mississippi River for Spain
Although Hernando De Soto had explored and claimed this area for Spain 140 years before, on April 9, 1682, La Salle claimed the Mississippi River valley for French king Louis XIV, naming the territory Louisiana in his honor. -
When was the Glorious Revolution
The Glorious Revolution, [b] also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England (James VII of Scotland and James II of Ireland) by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau. -
John Locke justifies rebellion in Two Treatises on Government
This is known as the Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688. Locke claims in the "Preface" to the Two Treatises that its purpose is to justify William III's ascension to the throne, though Peter Laslett suggests that the bulk of the writing was instead completed between 1679–1680. -
when did the war of Spanish Succession end
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Frederick the Great begins his reign in Prussia
With the death of his father in 1713, Frederick William became King of Prussia -
when did louis XIV death
In fact, the king did feel better. But the disease was still there and making progress. Louis XIV finally went into a semi-coma lasting the next two days -
George III becomes the King of Great Britain
George III was born on 4 June 1738 in London, son of Frederick, Prince of Wales and Augusta of Saxe-Gotha. He became heir to the throne when his father died in 1751, succeeding his grandfather George II in 1760. He was the first Hanoverian monarch to use English as his first language. -
when did frederick the great becomes king
he stands as one of the greatest of the Enlightened Despots. -
Tsaac Newton published his laws of gravityin Mathematical Principles of natural Philosophy
The French mathematical physicist Alexis Clairaut assessed it in 1747: "The famous book of mathematical Principles of natural Philosophy marked the epoch of a great revolution in physics. -
Denis Diderot publishes the frist volumes of his Encyclopedia
The first seventeen volumes were published between 1751 and 1765 -
Seven Year' War begins
The French and Indian War was the North American conflict that was part of a larger imperial conflict between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War. The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. -
when did the seven years war end
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Cesare Baccaria writes against torture in On Crimes and Punishment
In 1764 Beccaria published a brief but justly celebrated treatise On Crimes and Punishments, which marked the high point of the Milan Enlightenment. -
Catherine the Great puts down the serf Rebellion
The rebellion managed to consolidate support from various groups including the peasants, the Cossacks and Old Believers priesthood. At one point, its administration claimed control over most of the territory between the Volga River and the Urals. One of the most significant events of the insurrection was the Battle of Kazan in July 1774. -
British Army and American Militia exchange fire at Lexington, Massachusetts
On April 19, 1775, British and American soldiers exchanged fire in the Massachusetts -
Declaration of Independence is signed
The handwritten copy of the Declaration of Independence that was signed by Congress is dated July 4, 1776. The signatures of fifty-six delegates are affixed; however, whether or not Congress actually signed the document on this date has long been the subject of debate. -
Joseph II abolishes serfdom in Austria
In addition, Joseph abolished serfdom in 1781. Later, in 1789, he decreed that peasants must be paid in cash payments rather than labor obligations. These policies were violently rejected by both the nobility and the peasants, since their barter economy lacked money. -
Delegates at the Constitutional Convention sign the Constitution
When the Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia in 1787 Ellsworth once again -
Frist slave revolts in Hispaniola
The rebellion began with a revolt of black African slaves in August 1791. It ended in November 1803 with the French defeat at the battle of Vertières. Haiti became an independent country on January 1, 1804.
