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Period: Jan 1, 1000 to
ch. 17
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Period: Jan 31, 1300 to
ch 19/20
chapter 19 -20 time toast -
Mar 4, 1394
prince henery of portugal is born
better known as Henry the Navigator, was an important figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and the Age of Discoveries in total. He was responsible for the early development of European exploration and maritime trade with other continents. -
Feb 25, 1402
younglo becomes ming emperor
and declaring his new era the Yongle or the time of "Perpetual Happiness" -
Feb 10, 1405
Zheng He captains his first vouge
to show off China's might across the world -
Jan 9, 1430
donatello creates his david statue
a famous statue -
Jun 7, 1444
spain & portugal aree to treaty of tordesillas
divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Portugal and Spain .The lands to the east would belong to Portugal and the lands to the west to Spain. -
Apr 8, 1446
johan Gutenberg invents the printing press
made printing a some of the same pages quicker -
Jan 9, 1453
the hundred years war ends
it is a famous battle -
May 29, 1453
the fall of constantinople to the turks
The capture of Constantinople (and two other Byzantine splinter territories soon thereafter) marked the end of the Roman Empire -
Feb 3, 1488
B. Dias reaches cape of good hope
He sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, the first European known to have done so. -
Jan 2, 1492
Ferdinand & isabella end war with muslims
The aftermath of the war saw the end of convivencia ("live and let live") between religions. The Jews were forced to convert to Christianity or be exiled in 1492. In 1501, -
Aug 3, 1492
C.Cloubus spots land in north america
Columbus' voyages led to the first lasting European contact with the Americas, inaugurating a period of European exploration, conquest, and colonization that lasted for several centuries -
Jan 9, 1500
raphael paints school of athens
an old time school -
Period: Mar 5, 1500 to
ch 21 time toast
spains empire and european absolutiism -
Jan 8, 1503
leonardo da vinci starts th moana lisa
a rill famous painting in a musem -
Apr 7, 1507
amerigo vespucci charts new world coast
ut instead constituted an entirely separate landmass hitherto unknown to Afro-Eurasians. Colloquially referred to as the New World, this second super continent came to be termed "America", deriving its name from the feminized Latin version of Vespucci's first name.[1][2 -
Jul 9, 1508
michelangelo paints the ceiling of the sistine capel
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Feb 7, 1512
f. pizzaro mees atahualpa
captured Atahualpa and used him to control the Inca Empire. Eventually, the Spanish executed Atahualpa, effectively ending the empire -
Jan 9, 1515
machiavelli writes the prince
a fifteen fiffteen book -
Feb 8, 1516
mary I becomes queen
mary come to queen -
Jan 10, 1517
martin luther posts his 95 thesis
martin luther post 95 thesis -
May 7, 1519
H. codrtez lands on mexican coast
who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish colonizers that began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas. -
Feb 7, 1522
first slave revolts in hispaniola
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Feb 6, 1524
vasco da gama lands in india
first European to reach India by sea. This discovery was very significant and paved the way for the Portuguese to establish a long-lasting colonial empire in Asia. -
Feb 9, 1524
jacques Cartier claims land in canada
Cartier's three expeditions along the St. Lawrence River would later enable France to lay claim to the lands that would become Canada. -
May 17, 1536
anne boleyn is executed
anne died -
Oct 12, 1537
edward VI is born
edward is born -
Apr 19, 1541
ignatius of loyola founds the jesuit order
ignatius of loyola founds the jesuit order -
Period: Mar 25, 1550 to
chapter 22 time toast
the enlightenment and revolution -
Jan 16, 1556
when did phillip II become king of spain
he was King of Naples and Sicily as well as Duke of Milan. During his marriage to Queen Mary I (1554–58), he was also King of England and Ireland -
Nov 17, 1558
elizabeth I becomes Queen
elizabeth is queen -
Mar 13, 1574
william of orang spanish rule
willams motive for fighting the spanish whas plitical not religis he whanted to free the neatherlands from spain -
when did the battle in the english channel begain
king philip launched the spanish a armada -
when was the defeat of the spanish armada
Grande y Felicísima Armada or Armada Invencible, literally "Great and Most Fortunate Navy" or "Invincible Fleet") was a Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from A Coruña -
english east india company is founded
Commonly associated with trade in basic commodities, which included cotton, silk, indigo dye, salt, saltpetre, tea and opium, the Company received a Royal Charter from Queen Elizabeth in 1600,[3] making it the oldest among several similarly formed European East India Companies -
johannes kepler mathematically proves copernicus and brahe
they demonstrated math ematically that the planets revolve around the sun -
Dutch east india company is founded
It is often considered to have been the first multinational corporation in the world [2] and it was the first company to issue stock.[3] It was also arguably the first megacorporation, possessing quasi-governmental powers, including the ability to wage war, imprison and execute convicts,[4] negotiate treaties, coin money, and establish colonies.[5] -
henry hudson is last seen
In or near the Hudson Bay, Canada -
william shakespeare dies
william shakespeafre dies -
when was the thirt years war
was a series of wars principally fought in Central Europe, involving most of the countries of Europe.[10] It was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history, and one of the longest continuous wars in modern history. -
when did cordinal richelieu become ruler of france
He was a typical fighting gentleman of the period. -
when did thomas hobbes oulines the social contract in leviathan
Some scholars argue that the Leviathan is the 'greatest work of political philosophy ever written'. This may sound as an exaggeration but it certainly represents the most powerful study of modern politics written in English. By all means it is the most famous work of Thomas Hobbes, but no less his most misunderstood work -
la salle claim mississippi river for spain
Once reaching the river they took to their canoes and traveled westward and then down the Mississippi. -
when was the restoration of england
he restored the monarchy charles also restored theater sporting events and dancing -
new netherlands becomes new york
Ironically, the English explorer HENRY HUDSON brought the region to the attention of the Netherlands in 1609 by sailing into New York Bay -
when was the habeas courpus created
this law gave every prisoner the right to obtain a writ or document ordering that the prisoner be bought befor a judge -
when dose isaac newton published his laws of gravity in mathematical principles of natural philosophy
the principia was rvolutionizing because it provied and ezact quantitative -
when did john locke justifies rebellion in two treatises on government
The work of Thomas Hobbes made theories based upon a state of nature popular in 17th-century England, even as most of those who employed such arguments were deeply troubled by his absolutist conclusions. Locke's state of nature can be seen in light of this tradition. Because there is no divinely ordained monarch over all the world, as was argued in the First Treatise, the natural state of mankind is anarchic. -
when did peter the great whent on his great embessy
The goal of this mission was to strengthen and broaden the Holy League, Russia's alliance with a number of European countries against the Ottoman Empire in its struggle for the northern coastline of the Black Sea, hire foreign specialists for Russian service, and to order and acquire military supplies and weapons. Officially, the Grand Embassy was headed by the "grand ambassadors" Franz Lefort, Fedor Golovin and Prokopy Voznitsyn. In fact, it was led by Peter himself, who went along incognito un -
when was the war of spanish sucesion done
the treaty of utrecht was signed in that year -
when did louis xiv died
fter a week of slow agony, Louis XIV passed away in Versailles on 1 September 1715 at 8.15 in the morning, just before his 77th birthday. A reign of 72 years ended, the longest in the history of France. Another reign almost as long began: that of Louis XV -
when did fredric the great becom king
Frederick found an ally in his sister, Wilhelmina, with whom he remained close for life. At age 16, Frederick had formed an attachment to the king's 13-year-old page, Peter Karl Christoph Keith. -
when did frederick the great beigins his reign in prussia
In his youth, Frederick was more interested in music and philosophy than the art of war. He defied his authoritarian father, Frederick William I, and sought to run away with his close friend Hans Hermann von Katte. They were caught and the king nearly executed his son for "desertion"; he did force Frederick to watch the execution of Hans. -
when did anders celsius creates his scale for measuring temperature
In his paper Observations of two persistent degrees on a thermometer, he recounted his experiments showing that the melting point of ice is essentially unaffected by pressure. He also determined with remarkable precision how the boiling point of water varied as a function of atmospheric pressure. He proposed that the zero point of his temperature scale, being the boiling point, would be calibrated at the mean barometric pressure at mean sea level. -
when did Denis diderot publishes the first volumes of his encyclopedia
This work was unorthodox and advanced for the time. Diderot stated that "An encyclopedia ought to make good the failure to execute such a project hitherto, and should encompass not only the fields already covered by the academies, but each and every branch of human knowledge. -
when was the seven years war
It involved most of the great powers of the time and affected Europe, North America, Central America, the West African coast, India, and the Philippines -
seven years wor begins
However, in 1757, British Prime Minister William Pitt (the older) recognized the potential of imperial expansion that would come out of victory against the French and borrowed heavily to fund an expanded war effort. -
when did mary wollstonecraft is born
Brought up by an abusive father, she left home and dedicated herself to a life of writing. While working as a translator to Joseph Johnson, a publisher of radical texts, she published her most famous work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. She died 10 days after her second daughter, Mary, was born. -
when did george III becomes the king of great britain
He became heir to the throne when his father died in 1751, succeeding his grandfather George II in 1760. -
when did catherine the great puts down the serf rebellion
, military conscription and economy continued to depend on serfdom, and the increasing demands of the state and private landowners led to increased levels of reliance on serfs. This was one of the chief reasons behind several rebellions, including the large-scale Pugachev's Rebellion of cossacks and peasants. -
when did cesare baccaria writes againstt torture in on crimes and punishment
In it, Beccaria put forth some of the first modern arguments against the death penalty. -
when did the boston tea party happen
They tipped the 342 crates of tea into the Boston Harbor. Because of this, Parliament passed the Coercive Acts, which were so harsh that they were renamed the Intolerable Acts. -
when did declaration of independence is signed
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. -
when did joseph II abolish serfdom in austria
Later, in 1789, he decreed that peasants must be paid in cash payments rather than labor obligations. These policies were violently rejected by both the nobility and the peasants, since their barter economy lacked money. -
when did delegates at the constitutional convention sign the constitution
In all, 55 delegates attended the Constitutional Convention sessions, but only 39 actually signed the Constitution. The delegates ranged in age from Jonathan Dayton, aged 26, to Benjamin Franklin, aged 81, who was so infirm that he had to be carried to sessions in a sedan chair. -
when did lan the terrible the great take the throne
Historic sources present disparate accounts of Ivan's complex personality: he was described as intelligent and devout, yet given to rages and prone to episodic outbreaks of mental illness
