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May 24, 1302
estates generals
expanding French royal power led to a general assembly consisting of the chief lords, both lay and ecclesiastical, and the representatives of the principal privileged towns, which were like distinct lordships -
Aug 3, 1492
Columbus sails to America
Columbus led his three ships - the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria - out of the Spanish port of Palos -
Apr 24, 1521
Cortez conquers the Aztecs
The Spanish conquest of the Aztecs in 1521, led by Hernando Cortes, was a landmark victory for the European settlers. -
May 10, 1543
copernicus presents the Heliocentric theory
the Heliocentric Theory positioned the Sun near the center of the Universe, motionless, with Earth and the other planets rotating around it in circular paths modified by epicycles and at uniform speeds -
May 22, 1566
revolts of the netherlands
The armada had a mission of both political and religious aims. King Phillip, the leader of the Roman Catholic Spain, was not able to stop a revolt in of his Protestant subjects in the Netherlands -
English settle Jamestown
13 years before the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts, a group of 104 English men and boys began a settlement on the banks of Virginia's James River. -
peter the great of russia begins his reign
Russia was a huge landlocked country, much less developed than other countries in Europe when peter became "tsar" ruler -
glorious revolution in england
is the name of the overthrow of king James II of England by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau -
Louis XVI of France begins his reign
The first part of his reign is marked by his attempts to reform the kingdom in accordance with the enlightment ideas -
napolean conquers most of europe
He established hegemony over most of continental Europe and sought to spread the ideals of the French Revolution, while consolidating an imperial monarchy which restored aspects of the deposed Ancien Régime. -
french revolution begins
the frenhc revolution was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France that had a major impact on France and indeed all of Europe. -
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette escapes france
A failed escape attempt by Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette ended up sending them both to the guillotine (killing them) during the French Revolution. -
the great fear
Rural unrest had been present in France since the worsening grain shortage of the spring, and the grain supplies were now guarded by local militias due to rumors that bands of armed men were roaming the countryside. -
english civil war
The English Civil War of the mid-17th Century was part of a wider series of conflicts that spanned the entire British Isles, involving Scotland and Ireland as well as England and Wales
