APWH Timeline Assignment PERIOD 4
1450-1750
Instructions: Take all of the following events, people, and places. For each, find the relevant dates and the
significance. Place everything on one continuous timeline. You must figure out an appropriate scale so that
everything is spaced out EVENLY. Multiple-year events need to be bracketed. Please make a color code
and corresponding key for events by geographical area/political unit. WRITE THE DATE OF THE
EVENT NEXT TO IT ON THE TIMELINE. supplementary chronology should include a summary (2-3
sentences) of what each event/person is and the importance. Be prepared to be quizzed on the items on the
line...
1. Beginning of Portuguese slave trade
2. Columbus' first voyage
3. Council of Trent
4. Dias' voyage into Indian Ocean
5. End of the British slave trade
6. Establishment of 1st colony in Australia
7. Foundation of Society of Jesus
8. Galileo Galilei
9. Hatian Revolution
10. John Calvin
11. John Locke
12. Martin Luther
13. Mughal dynasty
14. Ottoman dynasty
15. Peace of Westphalia
16. Prince Henry the Navigator
17. Qing dynasty
18. Reign of Akbar
19. Reign of Emperor Wanli
20. Reign of Mehmed the Conqueror
21. Reign of Suleyman the Magnificent
22. Reign of Sunni Ali
23. Safavid dynasty
24. Seven Years' War
25. Songhay Empire
26. Spanish Armada
27. Spanish conquest of Mexico
28. Thirty Years' War
29. Tokugawa shogunate
30. Treaty of Tordesillas