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Period: 1096 to 1291
Crusades are fought
The Crusades were a war between the Christians and Muslims. The Christians were trying to regain their holy land, Palestine. It was an unsuccessful attempt but it expanded trade routes. -
1300
Renaissance Begins
Renaissance is the French word for rebirth. There was a great study of the Greek and Romans. The Renaissance began in the popular city of France. -
1337
100 Year War Begins
The war was a number of fights that were waged by the House of Plantagenet, which were the rulers of the Kingdom of England. They fought over the rule of the Kingdom of France. The kingdom was in Western Europe. -
1347
Black Death Begins in Europe
The black death was said to be brought in by traders from Genoa. -
Period: 1405 to 1433
Zheng He's Voyages
Zheng He was a Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat, fleet admiral, and court eunuch during China's early Ming dynasty. Zheng commanded expeditionary voyages to Southeast Asia, South Asia, Western Asia, and East Africa from 1405 to 1433. -
May 30, 1431
Joan of Arc Burned at the Stake
Joan of Arc, a devout saint of God, was burned at the stake in May of 1431 on charges of heresy. After a long trial that lasted over a year, three major indictments were made against her. ... The charge against her stated that the voices were actually demons instead of saints. -
1440
Johannes Gutenberg printing press
Gutenberg entered into a business partnership with Fust in order to continue funding his printing experiments. Gutenberg continued to refine his printing process and by 1455 had printed several copies of the Bible. Consisting of three volumes of text in Latin, Gutenberg's Bibles had 42 lines of type per page with color illustrations. -
May 29, 1453
Fall of Constantinople
The Fall of Constantinople was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by an invading Ottoman army on 29 May 1453. The attackers were commanded by the 21-year-old Sultan Mehmed II, who defeated an army commanded by Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos and took control of the imperial capital, ending a 53-day siege that began on 6 April 1453. After conquering the city, Sultan Mehmed transferred the capital of his Empire from Edirne to Constantinople, and established his court. -
Period: 1492 to
Columbian Exchange
The Columbian exchange, also known as the Columbian interchange, named for Christopher Columbus, was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas, West Africa, and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries. -
1506
Mona Lisa Completed 1506
Leonardo da Vinci is thought by some to have begun painting the Mona Lisa in 1503 or 1504 in Florence, Italy. Although the Louvre states that it was "doubtless painted between 1503 and 1506", the art historian Martin Kemp says there are some difficulties in confirming the actual dates with certainty. -
1508
Michelangelo begins painting the Sistine Chapel
The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, is a cornerstone work of High Renaissance art. The ceiling is that of the Sistine Chapel, the large papal chapel built within the Vatican between 1477 and 1480 by Pope Sixtus IV, for whom the chapel is named. -
Period: 1509 to Jan 28, 1547
King Henry VIII Reign
King of England; Lord/King of Ireland Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was King of England from 1509 until his death. Henry was the second Tudor monarch, succeeding his father, Henry VII. -
Aug 23, 1514
Battle of Chaldiran
The Battle of Chaldiran took place on 23 August 1514 in Chaldoran County, northwestern Iran, and ended with a decisive victory for the Ottoman Empire over the Safavid Empire. As a result, the Ottomans annexed Eastern Anatolia, northern Iraq and northwestern Iran from Safavid Iran. -
Oct 31, 1517
Martin Luther post 95 Theses
Acting on this belief, he wrote the “Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences,” also known as “The 95 Theses,” a list of questions and propositions for debate. Popular legend has it that on October 31, 1517 Luther defiantly nailed a copy of his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle church. -
1519
Cortez Defeats Aztecs
The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, or the Spanish–Aztec War, was the conquest of the Aztec Empire by the Spanish Empire within the context of the Spanish colonization of the Americas. It was one of the most significant and complex events in world history. -
Period: Sep 30, 1520 to Sep 6, 1566
Sultan Suleiman Reign
Suleiman I commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in the West and Kanunî Sultan Süleyman, was a state that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries. It was founded at the end of the 13th century in northwestern Anatolia in the town of Söğüt by the Oghuz Turkish tribal leader Osman I -
1532
"The Prince" (Book)
The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus. -
Jan 15, 1532
Pizarro Defeats Incas
In 1530, Pizarro returned to Panama. In 1531, he sailed down to Peru, landing at Tumbes. He led his army up the Andes Mountains and on November 15, 1532, reached the Inca town of Cajamarca, where Atahualpa was enjoying the hot springs in preparation for his march on Cuzco, the capital of his brother's kingdom. -
Period: 1545 to
Counter Reformation
The Counter-Reformation, also called the Catholic Reformation or the Catholic Revival, was the period of Catholic resurgence initiated in response to the Protestant Reformation, beginning with the Council of Trent and ending at the close of the Thirty Years' War -
Period: to
Era of the Samurai
Samurai were the military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan. In Japanese, they are usually referred to as bushi or buke. -
Taj Mahal Completed
The Taj Mahal is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the south bank of the Yamuna river in the Indian city of Agra. It was commissioned in 1632 by the Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan, to house the tomb of his favourite wife, Mumtaz Mahal. It also houses the tomb of Shah Jahan, the builder. -
Lord George McCartney Expelled
On his return from a confidential mission to Italy in 1795, he was raised to the British peerage as Baron Macartney, and in the end of 1796 was appointed governor of the newly acquired territory of the Cape Colony, where he remained until ill health compelled him to resign in November 1798. -
Period: to
Opium War
The Opium Wars were two wars in the mid-19th century involving China and the British Empire over the British trade of opium and China's sovereignty. The clashes included the First Opium War and the Second Opium War.
