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Period: Jan 26, 1350 to
chapter 19-20
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Period: Mar 2, 1350 to
chapter 21
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Period: Mar 27, 1350 to
Chapter 22 time toast
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Period: Dec 19, 1350 to
History
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Mar 4, 1398
Prince Henry of Portugal is born
Prince Henry the Navigator. Born March 4, 1394; died November 13, 1460; he was the fourth son of John I, King of Portugal, by Queen Philippa, a daughter of John of Gaunt. In 1415 he commanded the expedition which captured Ceuta, Portugal's first oversea conquest -
Jul 17, 1402
Yonglo becomes Ming Emperor
Yonglo was the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty in China, reigning from 1402 to 1424. -
Jul 11, 1405
Zheng he captains his first voyage
Between 1405 and 1433, the Ming government sponsored seven naval expeditions. The Yongle Emperor disregarding the Hongwu Emperor's expressed wishes designed them to establish a Chinese presence and impose imperial control over the Indian Ocean trade impress foreign peoples in the Indian Ocean basin -
Nov 18, 1439
Johan Gutenberg invents the Printing Press
Not known exactly when the movable type printing press was invented it appears around 1439 or 1440 it was very impotant and made it more simple to copy and make books, It also helped poor people have a few books instead of just rich people. -
May 29, 1453
Fall of Constantinople to the Turks
The siege lasted from Frideay April 6 1453 till Tuesday May 29 1453 Marked the end of Bryzantine empire an empire that lasted over 1,100 years. Some mark the end of Middle ages by the fall of city and empire. -
Oct 19, 1453
The Hundred Years' War Ends
Ended on October 19th 1453 when Bordeaux surrendered Calais as the last English posession in France it was not a single war that lasted for one hundred years but a sporatic succession of wars on the same theme. -
Dec 23, 1460
Vasco da Gama lands in India
He was the first European to reacch india by sea, linking Europe and Asia for the first time by ocean route as well as the Atlantic and Indian oceans -
Jul 29, 1488
B. Diaas reaches Cape of Good Hope.
In 1488, Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias (c. 1450-1500) became the first European mariner to round the southern tip of Africa, opening the way for a sea route from Europe to Asia. -
Dec 31, 1491
Jacques Cartier claims land in Canada
December 31, 1491, in Saint-Malo, Brittany, France, and was sent by King Francis I to the New World in search of riches and a new route to Asia in 1534. His exploration of the St. Lawrence River allowed France to lay claim to lands that would become Canada. -
Jan 2, 1492
Ferdinand and Isabella end war with Muslims
The Granada War was a series of military campaigns between 1482 and 1492, during the reign of the Catholic Monarchs Isabella and Ferdinandagainst the Nasrid dynasty's Emirate of Granada. It ended with the defeat of Granada and its annexation by Castile, ending all Islamic rule on the Iberian peninsula -
Oct 12, 1492
C. Colombus spots land in North America
Columbus proposal to reach the East Indies by sailing west eventually received the support of the Spanish Crown, which saw in it a chance to enter the spice trade with Asia through a new westward route. During his first voyage in 1492 instead of reaching Japan as he had intended Columbus landed in a New World, -
Jun 7, 1494
Spain and Prtugal agree to Treaty of Tortdesillas
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 28, 1497
Amerigo Vespucci charts New World coast
A letter published in 1504 purports to be an account by Vespucci, written to Soderini, of a lengthy visit to the New World, leaving Spain in May 1497 and returning in October 1498. However, modern scholars have doubted that this voyage took place, and consider this letter a forgery. -
Mar 27, 1500
Nicolaus Copernicus begins studying planetart movement
After studing planetary movements for more than 25 years, Copernicus reasoned that indeed the stars, the earth , and the other planets revolved around the sun. -
Dec 2, 1500
Spain's economic decline
When Spain expelled the Jews and moors around 1500 it lost many valuable artisans and businesspeople In addition spaind nobles did not have to pay taxes -
Feb 22, 1501
Donatello creates his David statue
David is amasterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created between 1501 and 1504 by Italian Sculptor,painter is a 14.2ft, 17.0ft with the base marble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the Biblicaal her David. A favored subject in art of Florence. -
Aug 18, 1503
Leonardo DaVinci starts the Mona Lisa
Believed to have been painted between 1503 and 1506 although he may hace continued working on it as late as 1517. This painting is thought to be a porterate of Lisa Gherardini. This painting is the best known, the most visited, the most writtin about and sung about.The most parodied world of art in the world. -
Oct 19, 1508
Michelangelo paints the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
was painted between 1508 and 1512 it is a cornerstone work of High Renaissance art. Central to the ceiling decoration are nine scenes from the Book of Genesis of which The Creation Of Adam is the best known, having an iconic standing equalled to the Mona Lisa. -
Jun 28, 1509
Raphael paints School of Athens
It was painted between 1509 and 1511 as a part of Raphael's commission to decorate with frescoes the rooms now known as stanze di Raffaello. The school of Athens, representing Philosophy, was probably the second painting to be finished there. -
Sep 30, 1513
Machiavelli writes The Prince
It is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat. From correspondence a version appears to have been distribute in 1513 using a latin title. However the printed version was not published until 1532 five years after his death. -
Oct 31, 1517
Martin Luther posts his 95 thesis
According to university custom on october 31 1517, Luther posted the ninety five thesis which he has composed in Latin on the door of the church in Wittenburg. They centered it on the pratius within the catholic chrch regarding batism and absolution. The theses reject the validity of indulgences. They also view with ggreat cynicisly the practice of indulgences being sold. All saints in Wittenberg, saxony in the rising Empire, where the Nintey Five theses famously appeared. -
Feb 28, 1519
H.Cortez lands on Mexican coast
In 1518 Velázquez put him in command of an expedition to explore and secure the interior of Mexico for colonization. At the last minute Velázquez and Cortés, he changed his mind and revoked his charter. Cortés ignored the orders and went ahead anyway, in February 1519, in an act of open mutiny. -
Apr 28, 1522
First slave revolts in Hispaniola
The earliest known slave revolt in the New World took place here in 1522, but a much greater uprising was yet to come. The modern nation of Haiti, which now shares this island with the Dominican Republic, owes its existence to the most successful African slave rebellion in history. -
Nov 15, 1532
F. Pizzaro meets Atahualpa
During the Spanish conquest the Spaniard Francisco Pizarro captured Atahualpa and used him to control the Inca Empire. the Spanish executed Atahualpa, effectively ending the empire. Although a succession of several emperors, who led the Inca resistance against the invading Spaniards, claimed the title of Sapa Inca the empire began to disintegrate after Atahualpa's death. -
Mar 4, 1533
Ivan the terrible comes to throne
Ivan IV called Ivan the terrible came to throne in 1533 when he was only threee years old -
May 19, 1536
Anne Boleyn is executed
Was queen of England from 1533 to 1536 as the second wife of king Henery VII and Marquess of Pembroke in her own wife. Henery's marriage to Anne, and her subsequence execution made her key figure in the political and religious uphequal that was the start of the English Reformation. She was accused of adultery, incest and withchcraft therefore she was beheaded. -
Oct 12, 1537
Edward VI is born
Was born on october 12 1537 was king of England and Ireland from january 28 1547 until his death. HE was crowned on Febuary 20 at the age of nkine. He was the on of HeneryVII and Hane Seymour. Edward was the third monarch of the Tudor dynasty and Englands first monarch raised as a prtestant. During his real was governed bu Regency council he never reached majurity. -
Apr 19, 1541
Ignatius of Loyola founds the Jesuit order
Was spanish knight from the local Basque noble family heruit, preist since 1537 and the theologian who founded the society of Jesus and on April 19 1541, because first superior general Ignatium emerged as a religious leader during the counter-Reformation. Loyola's devotion to the Catholic Church was characterized by absolute coedence to the pope. -
Jul 19, 1553
Mary I becomes queen
Was queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death. Her executuion of Protestants caused her opponsnts to give her the sobriquwt "bloody mary" . She was only child of Henery VII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon who survived to adulthood. Her younger half brother Edward VI son of Henery and Jane once Hery died in 1553. Mary got the crown after assembled a force in East Aglia and deposed Jane who was going to get the crown. -
Nov 17, 1558
Elizabeth I becomes Queen
Was queen of Englasn and Ireland from November 17 1558 until her death. Sometimes called the Virgin Queen , Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, the childless Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarchy of the Tudor dynesty. Elizabeth was daughter of Henery VII by second wife Anne Boleyn -
Mar 3, 1562
Religious wars create a crisis
between 1562 and 1598 huguenots and catholics fought eight religious wars -
Mar 2, 1580
Philip II becomes king
In 1580 the king of Portugal died without an heir because Philip was the kings nephew he seized the Portuguese kingdom -
English East company is founded
It was an English joint-stock company formed to trade with the East Indies but ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent Qing Dynasty China, North-West Frontier Province and Balochistan. -
Dutch East India Company is founded
It was a chartered company established in 1602 when the States it was granted a 21-year monopoly to carry out trade activities in Asia. It is often considered to have been the first multinational corporation in the world -
Thirty years war
The peace was short-lived soon to be replaced by long war after the peace of Augsburg the catholic and lutheran pronces of Germany watched each other suspotcuously each religion triedj to gain followers -
Henry Hudson is last seen
Hudson wanted to press on to the west, but most of his crew mutinied. The mutineers cast Hudson, his son and 7 others adrift; the Hudsons, and those cast off at their side, were never seen again. -
William Shakespeare dies
April 23, 1616 statford upon Avon United Kingdom nobody knows why or how he died he is known for his writings and poetry one that is popular to his writing Romeo and Juliet. He died at the age of 52 and his death will forever be a mystery. -
Louis XIII appointed a strong minister
Louis was a weak king but in 1624 he appointed a strong minister who made up for all of Louis's weaknesses -
Gaalileo publishes his many findings
In 1632 he published Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World System this book presented the ideas of noth Cpernicus and Ptolemy, but it clearly showed that Falilleo supported the Cpernican theory -
Dutch Trading Empire
The dutch has the largest fleet of ships in the world perhaps 4,800 ships in 1636 gradually the Dutch replaced the Italians as the bankers of Europe -
English civil war ( how it started)
Charles offended Puritains by upholding church ritual and a formal prayer book in assition in 1637 charles tried to force the presbyterian scots to accept a verson of the anglican prayer book -
New netherlands becomes New York
Nieuw Amsterdam was New York from 1664 to 1673, but in that year it became Dutch once more, this time under the name Nieuw Oranje, `New Orange.' That was in honor of the Dutch Prince of Orange -
Thomas Hobbes outines the social contract in Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes expressed his views in a work called leviathan. The horrors of the English Civil War convinced him that all humand were natually selfish and wicked. -
Charles II reigns
When prince charles entered London in d1660 crowds shouted joyfully and bells rang. on this note of celebration the reiggn of Charles II began -
La Salle claim Mississippi River for Spain
April 9, 1682 La Salle claimed the Mississippi River valley for the French king, Louis XIV, naming the territory Louisiana in his honor. -
Isaac Newton publishes his laws of gravity
In 1687 Newton published his ideas in work called Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy-- one of the most important scientific books ever written the univer he described was like a giant clock. -
Cabinet system develops
After 1688 no British monarch could rule without consent of Parliment At the same time Parliament could not rule without the consent of the monarch. If the two disagreed government came to a standstill -
Prussia and AUstria Clash
Like AUstria Prussia rose to power in the late 1600s like the hapsburg of Austria Prussia ruling family the Hohenzollerns also had ambitions -
John Locke justifies rebellion in Two Treaties on Government
He published his ideas in 1690 two years after the Gloroious Revolution his book two Treatied on Government served to ustify the overthrow of James ii Lockes theory had a deep influence on modern political thinking. -
Peter the great takes the throne
however in 1696 Peter became the sole ruler of Russia. He is known to history as Peter The Great because he was one of Russia's greatest reformers. -
A new capital
In 170he began building a new city on swedish lands occupied by Russian troops -
Fahrenheit and Celsius
In 1714 the Dutch person Gabriel Fahrenheit made the fistr thermometer to use mercury in glass showed water freezing at 32 but someone else wanted some of the spot light so in 1742 celius created a different scale that showed celcius and the water freezes at 0 what a silly guy -
Louis Death
Louis last years were more sad than glorious. Realizing that his wars has ruined france he regretted the suffering he has brought to his people he died in bed in 1715 -
Voltaire is exiled to England
In 1734 fearing another unpleaseant jail term voltaire fled to paris he was exvied to england for two years there coltaire came to admire the enflish government much more than his own. -
Frederick the Great begins his reign in Prussia
Fred II the king of Prussia from 1740-1786 once wrote to voltaire I must enghten my people cultivate their manners and morals and make themas happy as hyman beings can be or as happy as the means at my disposal permit -
Baron von Montesquieu puposed sparation of power in on ethe sporit of laws
His idea however became a part of his famous bbok on spirit of laws 1748 in his book he proposed that sparation of powers would keepany individual group from gaining total power -
Seven years war begins
The Seven Years War, a global conflict known in America as the French and Indian War, officially begins when England declares war on France. However, fighting and skirmishes between England and France had been going on in North America for years. -
Seven years war over
Soon everyy great European power was involved with the war fought in Europe India and Noth America the war lasted until 1763 -
Mozart first performs Don Giovanni
MOzart was a giftedchild who started composingmusic at the age of fice andgave concepts throughout europe as a youth at 12 he wrot his fist opera and composed it the name of it was Don Giovanni -
Catherine the Great purs down the serf Rebellion
hER THINKING ABOUT ENLIGNTENED IDEAS CHANGED AFTER A MASSIVE UPRISING IN SERS IN 17673 -
Boston tea party
THis was a boycott to protest an import tax on tea Adams facored independencefrom britain he organixed a raid against three British ships in Boston harbor -
British army and american fire at Lexington
British soliders and American militiamen exchange gunfire on the village freen in LExington Masssachusetts the fighting spread to nearby concord -
Declation is signed
The Declaration of Independence wasn't signed on July 4, 1776. On July 1, 1776, the Second Continental Congress met in Philadelphia, and on the following day 12 of the 13 colonies voted in favor of Richard Henry Lee's motion for independence. -
Joseph II abolishes serdom in Austria
Jose ruled Austria from 1780 to 1790 he introduced legal refirms and freedom of the press he also supported freedom of worship even for protestand orthodaox chistians and jews jo abolished serdom and ordered thatt peasants be paid for their labor with cash -
Delegates at the COnstitutional Convention sign theCo0nstitiution
The delegates signed the new Constitution on this day in order to become the law however the Constitution required approval by conventions in at least nine out of the thirteen states
