Europe
Cultural and Intellectual Changes
Ca. 1350-1615 - Era of Renaissance
Ca. 1517-1616 - Protestant Reformation
1532 - Forming of Church of England (Anglicans)
1534 - Founding of Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
1536 - Move of John Calvin to Geneva
1545-1563 - Council of Trent
1558-1603 - Elizabethan Era in England
1572-1598 - Wars of religion in France
1571 - Defeat of Turks at Lepanto by "Holy League"
1588 - English defeat of Spanish armada
1598 - Edict of Nante
1600-1750 - Scientific Revolution
Ca. 1600-1750 - Baroque Era
1675-1800 - EnlightenmentPolitical and Economic Changes
1500-1770 - Era of commercial capitalism
1533-1586 - Reign of Ivan the Terrible in Muskovoy
1588 - Defeat of Spanish armada
1609 - Dutch independence
1618-1648 - Thirty Years War
1641-1645 - English Civil War
1648 - Congress of Westphalia
1661-1715 - Reign of Louis XIV in France
1682-1725 - Reign of Peter the Great in Russia
1688-1689 - Glorious Revolution and Declaration of Rights in England
1700-1709 - Great Northern War
1701-1714 - War of Spanish Succession
1707 - United Kingdom of England, Scotland, and WalesSub-Saharan Africa
1482 - First Portuguese-Kongo encounter
1487 - Portuguese discovery of Cape of Good Hope
1497 - Portuguese encounters in East Africa
1505 - Portuguese pillage of Kilwa
1507-1543 - Rule of Alfonso I in Kongo
1514 - First African slaves to Americas
1526-1870 - Trans-Atlantic slave trade
1575 - End of Portuguese technical assistance of KongoMiddle East
1300-1923 - Ottoman Empire
1501-1736 - Safavid Persia
1514-1517 - Ottoman conquest of Syria, Egypt, and Arabia
1520-1566 - Suleiman the Magnificent
1529 - First Ottoman siege of Vienna
1682-1699 - Ottoman wars with Habsburg Austria
1554-1659 - Saadian dynasty in Morocco
1715 - Beginning of Russian conquest of Turkestan
1722 - Afghan invasion of Safavid Persia
1736-1747 - Rule of Shah in PersiaEarly American-European Encounters
Exploration
1492 - First Columbian voyage
1494 - Treaty of Tordesillas
1497 - John Cabot's landing in North America
1513 - Balboa's sighting of the Pacific Ocean
1519-1521 - Magellan's circumnavigation of the globeLatin America
1428-1521 - Aztec Empire
1440-1532 - Inca Empire
1500 - Portuguese claim on Brazil
1521 - Spanish conquest of Aztecs
1532 - First permanent Portuguese settlement in Brazil
1532-1535 - Spanish conquest of Inca
Ca. 1605-1694 - Palmares maroon stateNorth America
1524 - French claim of Canada
1587 - First English colony of Roanoke
1604 - First French settlement of Acadia
1607 - First permanent settlement of Virginia
1608 - French settlement of Quebec City
1624 - Dutch settlement at New Yor
1627 - Colony of New France
1713 - English control of Acadia
1739 - Stono Rebellion in South Carolina
1755 - Deportation of French Acadians to Louisiana
1759 - English defeat of French in QuebecIndia
1498 - Arrival of Vasco da Gama in India
1510 - Portuguese conquest of Goa
1515 - Portuguese occupation of western Ceylon
1526-1761 - Mughal Empire
1556-1605 - Reign of Akbar
1600 - Founding of British East India Company
1640s - Dutch conquest of Ceylon
1717 - English settlement in Calcutta and BombaySoutheast Asia
1350-1767 - Ayutthaya Kingdom in Siam
1511 - Portuguese conquest of Melaka
1565 - Spanish conquest of Philippines
1619 - Dutch base at Batavia
1641 - Dutch seizure of Melaka from Portuguese
1688 - Siamese expulsion of FranceChina
1368-1644 - Ming Dynasty
1557 - Portuguese base at Macao
1610 - Death of Matteo Ricci in Beijing
1644-1912 - Qing Dynasty
1689 - Treaty of NerchinskJapan and Korea
1338-1573 - Ashikaga Shogunate
1392-1910 - Yi Dynasty (Choson) in Korea
1549 - Beginning of Christian missions in Japan
1592-1598 - Japanese invasion of Korea
1603 - Tokugawa Shogunate founded
1637 - Christian rebellion against Tokugawa
1639-1841 - Japanese seclusion policy
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