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Period: Jan 1, 1360 to
Ch. 19-20
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May 2, 1360
Yonglo becomes Ming Emperor
-Was the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty in China, reigning from 1402 to 1424. -
Mar 4, 1394
Prince Henry of Portugal is Born
-Prince Henry was know for his school of Navigation -
Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
Chapter 17
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Period: Mar 27, 1400 to
chap. 22
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Jul 11, 1405
Zheng He captains his first vooyage
-Zheng He's first voyage departed July 11, 1405, from Suzhou 203 and consisted of a fleet of 317 ships holding almost 28,000 crewmen. -
May 9, 1436
Johan Gutenberg invents the Printing Press
-it made making lots of book's faster -
Apr 11, 1442
donatello creates his David statue
-Donatello's bronze statue of David is famous as the first unsupported standing work of bronze cast during the Renaissance. -
May 11, 1453
Fall of Constantinople to the Turks
-Sultan Mehmed II, ruler of the Ottoman Turks -The city was defended by, at most, 10,000 men. The Turks had between 100,000 and 150,000 men on their side -The battle lasted for fifty days. The Turks employed various important war tactics in taking over the city. They used huge cannon to destroy the walls, warships were used to the cut the city's sea defense -
Aug 16, 1453
The Hundred Years' War ends
-The war did not last 100 year's. It lasted 116 years. -
Mar 25, 1480
Nicolaus Copernicus begins studying planetary movement
-he helped us know how the planets are aligned -
May 27, 1488
B. Dias reaches Cape of Good Hope
-he is the first person to go around the tip of africa -
Jan 2, 1492
Ferdinand & Isabella end war with Muslims
-Since they ended the war, they could pay Columbus to go on his voyage -
May 9, 1492
C Columbus Spots Land in North America
-Columbus thinks he has found an all water way to India -
Jun 7, 1494
Spain & Portugal agree to Tready of Tordesillas
-This tready was so spain and Portugal did not end up exploring the same place -
Sep 9, 1497
Amerigo Vespucci charts New World
-this is the first time it was chrted -
May 20, 1498
Vasco da Gama lands in india
-Frst person to get to India around Africa just by sea -
Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
Chap. 20
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Aug 11, 1503
Leanardo DaVinci starts the Mona Lisa
-He never finished the Mona Lisa -
Feb 28, 1508
Michelangelo paints the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
-he almost went blind because of the paint that went into his eyes -
Jan 8, 1509
Raphael paints School of Athens
-he put him self in it
-he put all of the important people in it -
Jan 10, 1513
Machiavelli writes The Prince
-Although it was written as if it were a traditional work in the mirrors for princes style, it is generally agreed that it was especially innovative.
-This is only partly because it was written in the vernacular (Italian) rather than Latin, a practice which had become increasingly popular since the publication of Dante's Divine Comedy and other works of Renaissance literature. -
Jan 10, 1517
Martin Luther posts his 95 thesis
-the thesis showed the people how the church was doing wrong.
-the church got mad at Luther. -
Mar 10, 1519
H. Cortez lands on Mexico Coast
-He will soon take over the natives that are there and capture the land -
Nov 16, 1532
F. Pizzaro meets Atahualpa
-When hostile natives along the coast threatened the expedition, Pizarro moved inland and founded the first Spanish settlement in Peru, San Miguel de Piura. Inca Atahualpa refused to tolerate a Spanish presence in his lands but was captured by Pizarro during the Battle of Cajamarca on 16 November 1532. -
Mar 10, 1533
Ivan the Terrible became king
-he was only three
-his good period was from 1547 to 1560
-his bad period was from 1560 to his death -
Jun 15, 1534
Jacues Cartier claims land in Canada
-Jacques Cartier was the first European to describe and map[1] the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the shores of the Saint Lawrence River -
May 19, 1536
Anne Boleyn is executed
-Anne Boleyn, Queen Consort of England, was executed by a French Swordsman at the Tower of London on 19th May 1536, just 16 months after becoming Henry VIII's second wife.
-she was executed because she could not have a boy baby. -
Oct 12, 1537
Edward VI is born
-he was Henry VIII of England first son
-he was cround when he was 9 years old -
May 13, 1539
Ignatius of Loyola founds the Jesuit order
-he was a Spanish knight from a local Basque noble family, hermit, priest since 1537, and theologian, who founded the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and, on 19 April 1541, became its first Superior General. -
Apr 12, 1553
Mary I becomes Queen
-Bloody Mary
-Mary assembled a force in East Anglia and successfully deposed Jane, who was ultimately beheaded. In 1554, Mary married Philip of Spain, becoming queen consort of Habsburg Spain on his accession in 1556. -
Mar 10, 1555
Philip II took over
-took it from his dad that got it from Charles V -
Nov 17, 1558
Elizabeth I becomes queen
-Sometimes called "The Virgin Queen", "Gloriana" or "Good Queen Bess", Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty. -
Mar 10, 1559
Henry II died
-he left 4 young sons to fight over the power -
Jun 11, 1566
Protestant mobs swept through Catholic churches
-Philip raised taxes and took steps to crush protestantism -
Mar 30, 1580
Philip II took over the Portuguese Kingdom
-he took it over from his uncle who died with no heir -
Johannes Kepler mathematically proves Copernicus and Brahe
-It helped all of the earth know how the planets orbit around the sun -
English East India Company is founded
-The company was dissolved in 1874 as a result of the East India Stock Dividend Redemption Act passed one year earlier -
Dutch East India Company is founded
-States-General of the Netherlands granted 21-years to carry out colonial activities in Asia -
Henry Huson is last seen
-Henery went on a big exploration with lots of men and ships
-He did not return but only some men and one ship returned -
Michael Romanov becomes Czar
-made him above everyone -
William shakespear dies
-he was a great writter
he wrote lots of poems -
Thirty Tears War started
-it was fought over religion, territory, power -
Charles ii takes over
-he was appointed by parliament to take the throne
-he took over after Cromwell died -
Rene Descartes lays out his scientific method in Discourse on Method
-we still use the scientific method today -
Galileo publishes his many findings in Dialogue Concer Two Chief World Systems
-people called him "the father of modern science" -
Louis XIV became king
-only five and the strongest ruler of his time -
Thomas Hobbes outlines the social contract in Leviathan
-in the Leviathan Thomas Hobbes said life of a serf was solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short -
New Netherlands becomes New York
-The Duke of York changed New Neatherlands to New york
-hints the name New "York" -
La Salle claims Mississippi River for Spain
-when he stuck the flag in the ground he claimed all of what the mississippi river touched -
James ii takes over
-he took over for his brother -
Isaac Newton published his laws of gracity in Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
-this helped us know how gravity works -
William & Mary sign the Bill of rights
-gives rights to people that cannot be taken away -
John Locke justifies rebellion in Two Treatises on Government
-we still use some of the ideas from it in our government -
Peter the Great became ruler
-he claimed him self sole ruler of Russia
-he was also the czar -
The war of Spanish Succession starts
-lasts 12 years
-costed a lot
-france and spain fought -
Maria Theresa takes over
-she took over for her dad Charles VI
-his eldest daughter -
Frederick the Great became king
-he followed in his fathers footsteps with his military policies -
Baron von Montesquieu purposed separation of power in On the Spirit of Laws
-the spirit of the laws showed us how we need to live -
Denis Diderot publishes the first volumes of his encyclopedia
-this helped people learn more about things -
Seven Years' War begins
-The Seven Years war was fought between 1756 and 1763. France, Austria, Russia, Saxony, Sweden and Spain were fighting against Prussia, Great Britain, and Hanover. It was the first worldwide war in history and it was the first time Russia had become involved in an entirely European matter. -
Cesare Baccaria writes against torture in On Crimes and Punishment
-It condemned torture and the death penalty -
The start of the Partition of Poland
-divided up the Commonwealth lands among themselves progressively in the process of territorial seizures -
Catherine the Great puts down the serf rebellion
-she put an end to serfism -
Declaration of independence is signed
-This made the United States Independent from Britain
-it was not adopted until the 4th of July, this day we car Independence day -
Voltaire is exiled to England
-He wrote more than 20,000 letters and more than 2,000 books and pamphlets
-he was a great writer -
Joseph II abolishes serfdom in Austria
-there was no more serfdom -
First slave revolts in hispaniola
-this was the start of all slave revoltions, and what some day leads to the civil war
