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1025
Crusades are fought
Series of religious wars. The wars were fought between Christians and Muslims. To chose who got the holy land. There was over nine crusades. The muslims won the war. -
1337
100 year war begins
The Hundred Years War was a long struggle between England and France. The war was over succession to the French throne. The conflict was between the House of Plantagenet, rulers of the Kingdom of England, against the House of Valois, rulers of the Kingdom of France. The locations of the war were in France, the Low Countries, Great Britain, Iberian peninsula. -
1347
Black death begins in Europe
The bubonic plague started in Central Asia. The bacteria is called Yersinia pests. They are found particularly on rats, and in the fleas that feed on them. Rubbing onions, herbs or a chopped up snake.The estimated number of deaths ranges from 75 million to 200 million, or between 30 percent and 50 percent of Europe's population. -
1350
Renaissance begins
The Renaissance ia a time of art, music, engineering, trade, and changes. The Renaissance changed the face of humanity forever and continues to the light the path ahead in the twenty-first century. Trade and Prosperity helped the renaissance begin. The city-states of Italy, positioned on the Mediterranean Sea, were centers for trade and commerce, the first port of call for both goods and new ideas. -
1431
Joan of Arc burned at stake
She was burnt at the stake in Rouen by the English. She died of smoke inhalation. The Cardinal of Winchester is recorded as having ordered her to be burnt a second time. She was tried for witchcraft and heresy. Joan was captured by The Siege of Compiègne. -
1436
Johannes Gutenburg invents printing press
Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press. The printing press had replaceable/moveable wooden or metal letters.He invented the printing press in southern Germany. The print press manuscripts to be mass-produced at relatively affordable costs. The "Gutenberg bible" was Gutenberg most well known printed item. -
May 29, 1453
Fall of Constantinople
Was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by an invading army of the Ottoman Empire on 29 May 1453. The siege of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire and one of the most heavily fortified cities in the world is what led to it. The capture of Constantinople marked the end of the Byzantine Empire. -
Nov 1, 1478
Start of the Spanish Inqusition
It was intended to maintain Catholic orthodoxy in their kingdoms and to replace the Medieval Inquisition, which was under Papal control. It became the most substantive of the three different manifestations of the wider Catholic Inquisition along with the Roman Inquisition and Portuguese Inquisition. -
Jun 28, 1491
King Henry VIII Reign
He was prince for Henry is best known for his six marriages. Appointing himself the Supreme Head of the Church of England. Charges of treason and heresy were commonly used to quash dissent, and those accused were often executed without a formal trial. -
1492
Columbian Exchange
Columbian Exchange refers to a period of cultural and biological exchanges between the New and Old Worlds .Exchanges of plants, animals, diseases and technology. Columbian Exchange happened because Christopher Columbus "discovered" the New World and other Europeans subsequently followed in his path. Native American population died out completely. The labor shortage throughout the Americas, which eventually contributed to the establishment of African slavery on a vast scale in the Americas. -
Aug 1, 1498
Christopher columbus lands in the new world
Columbus led a total of four expeditions to the New World, discovering various Caribbean islands, the Gulf of Mexico, and the South and Central American mainlands, but he never accomplished his original goa -
1504
Mona Lisa Completed 1506
Portrait painting is half length. Painted by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. The painting is described as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world". The painting is thought to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini. The wife of Francesco del Giocondo, and is in oil on a white Lombardy poplar panel. -
1508
Michelangelo begins painting the Sistine Chapel
Is a cornerstone work of High Renaissance art. The ceiling is that of the Sistine Chapel. The large papal chapel built within the Vatican by Pope Sixtus IV. The chapel is named after. -
1513
The Prince
16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. It is short, the treatise is remembered of Machiavelli's works and the one most responsible for bringing the word "Machiavellian". Written in the vernacular Italian rather than Latin. A practice which had become popular since the publication of Dante's Divine Comedy and other works of Renaissance literature. The Prince is sometimes claimed to be one of the first works of modern philosophy. -
Oct 31, 1517
Martin Luther post 95 Theses
His belief, he wrote the “Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences,” known as “The 95 Theses,” is a list of questions and propositions for debate. -
1519
Cortez conquers the aztecs
coalition army of Spanish forces and native Tlaxcalan warriors led by Hernán Cortés and Xicotencatl the Younger captured the emperor Cuauhtemoc and Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire.There were some advantages. The Spanish had over the Aztec were 16 horses, guns, armor, formed alliances, and diseases, steel. As many as 240,000 Aztecs are estimated to have died, according to the Florentine Codex, during the eighty days from smallpox. -
1533
Ivan the Terrible’s Reign
THey called him ivan the terrible because Ivan acquired vast amounts of land through ruthless means, creating a centrally controlled government. tsar of Russia from established a tradition of absolute rule. After a childhood of abuse and repression he destroyed his rivals and claimed the throne of Tsardom. -
Sep 7, 1533
Queen Elizabeth reign
Elizabeth ascended the throne at the age of 25.Her reign was approximately 44 years. She was the was the last monarch of the House of Tudor. This was the age of William Shakespeare's plays, Francis Drake's voyages, and the sea battles against the Spanish Armada. Queen Elizabeth married Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. -
1545
Counter Reformation
Intellectual counter-force to Protestantism. The desire for reform within the Catholic Church had started before the spread of Luther. Many educated Catholics had wanted change. ntellectual counter-force to Protestantism. Proved to the outside world that the Catholic Church had recognised its past failings. They were willing to reform itself rather than blind itself to its faults. -
1555
Peace of Augsburg
Temporary settlement within the Holy Roman Empire of the religious conflict arising from the Reformation. Each prince was to determine whether Lutheranism or Roman Catholicism was to prevail in his lands. Was a treaty between Charles V and the forces of the Schmalkaldic League. -
Spanish Armada
The Spanish Armada was a Spanish fleet of 130 ships. They sailed from La Coruña in August 158., The commander of the Duke of Medina Sidonia with the purpose of escorting an army from Flanders to invade England. England's greatest military achievements, and a sign of the strength and spirit imparted to the country by the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. -
Edict of Nantes
The Edict of Nantes, signed in April 1598 by King Henry IV of Franc. It granted the Calvinist Protestants of France substantial rights in the nation, which was still considered essentially Catholic at the time. Henry aimed primarily to promote civil unity. Opened a path for secularism and tolerance. -
Era of the Samurai
Were the warriors of premodern Japan. They later made up the ruling military class that became the highest ranking social caste of the Edo Period. In 1185, Japan began to be governed by warriors or samurai. The victor, Taira no Kiyomori, became an imperial advisor and was the first warrior to attain such a position. Samurai serving the Bakufu were able to maintain a steady income during the Tokugawa through the help of Bakufu aide programs. The word samurai means "warrior or knight." -
William Shakespeares death
In truth, the exact date of Shakespeare's death is not known, but assumed from a record of his burial two days later, 25 April 1616, at Holy Trinity Church. Stratford Upon Avon, where his grave remains. -
Petition of Rights
The Petition of Right is a major English constitutional document. That sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing. This asked for a settlement of Parliament's complaints against the King's non-parliamentary taxation and imprisonments without trial, plus the unlawfulness of martial law and forced billets. Document that sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing. -
King Charles the First Executed
In London, King Charles I is beheaded for treason on January 30, 1649. The monarchy was abolished and a republic called the Commonwealth of England was declared. The monarchy was restored to Charles's son, Charles II, in 1660. Richard Brandon. Richard Brandon was a 17th-century English hangman who inherited his role from his father Gregory Brandon and was sometimes known as "Young Gregory". He beheaded King charles -
Slave Trade
The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly from Africa to the Americas, and then their sale there. The transatlantic slave trade began in the 15th century, after the Portuguese started exploring the coast of West Africa. -
Lord George Macartney exspelled
Was a British statesman, colonial administrator and diplomat. He is often remembered for his observation following Britain's success in the Seven Years War and subsequent territorial expansion at the Treaty of Paris that Britain now controlled "a vast Empire, on which the sun never sets". -
Opium War
The Opium war are two wars fought in mid 19th century. Two armed conflicts in China in the mid-19th century between the forces of Western countries and of the Qing dynasty, which ruled China from 1644 to 1911/12. The first Opium War .
