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Timeline for The Origins of Global Interdependence, 1500-1800
Chapters 23-28
DATE
EVENT
1289-1923
Ottoman dynasty
1368-1644
Ming dynasty (China)
1368-1398
Reign of Hongwu
1394-1460
Life of Prince Henry the
Navigator of Portugal
Reign of Yongle
1403-1424
1441
1464-1493
Beginning of the
Portuguese slave trade
Reign of Mehmud the
Conqueror
Ottoman conquest of
Constantinople
Reign of Sunni Ali
1464-1591
Songhay empire
1473-1543
Life of Nicolaus Copernicus
1478
Foundation of the Spanish
Inquisition
Life of Martin Luther
1451-1481
1453
1483-1546
1488
1491-1556
1492
1494
1497-1499
Bartolomeu Dias’s voyage
around the Cape of Good
Hope into the Indian Ocean
Life of Ignatius Loyola
Christopher Columbus’s
first voyage to the western
hemisphere
Treaty of Tordesillas
1501-1524
Vasco da Gama’s first
voyage to India
Reign of Shah Ismail
1501-1722
Safavid dynasty
1506-1542
1509-1547
Reign of King Afonso I
of Kongo
Reign of King Henry VIII
1509-1564
Life of John Calvin
1514
Battle of Chaldiran
DESCRIPTION/SIGNIFICANCE
AREA
OF THE
WORLD
1517
1518
1519-1521
1519-1522
1519-1556
1520-1566
Publication of the
Ninety-Five Theses
Smallpox epidemic in the
Caribbean
Spanish conquest of Mexico
Ferdinand Magellan’s
circumnavigation of the
world
Reign of Emperor Charles V
1526-1858
Reign of Suleyman the
Magnificent
Mughal Dynasty
1532-1540
Spanish conquest of Peru
1540
1545-1563
Foundation of the
Society of Jesus
Spanish discovery of silver
near Potosi
Council of Trent
1552-1610
Life of Matteo Ricci
1556-1598
Reign of King Philip II
1556-1605
Reign of Akbar
1564-1642
Life of Galileo Galilei
1565-1575
1571-1630
Spanish conquest of the
Philippines
Life of Johannes Kepler
1572-1620
Reign of Emperor Wanli
1588
Spanish Armada
1588-1629
1607
Reign of Shah Abbas the
Great
Tokugawa shogunate
(Japan)
Foundation of Port Royal
(Nova Scotia)
Foundation of Jamestown
1608
Foundation of Quebec
1616-1626
Reign of Nurhaci
1618-1648
Thirty Years’ War
1623
Foundation of New
Amsterdam
Reign of Queen Nzinga
of Ndongo
1545
1600-1867
1604
1623-1663
1630
1632-1704
Foundation of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Life of John Locke
1642-1693
Life of Ihara Saikaku
1642-1727
Life of Isaac Newton
1643-1715
Reign of King Louis XIV
1644-1911
Qing dynasty (China)
1648
Peace of Westphalia
1659-1707
Reign of Aurangzeb
1661-1722
Reign of Kangxi
1688
1694-1778
Smallpox epidemic on
Guam
Life of the Baron de
Montesquieu
Life of Voltaire
1706
Execution of Dona Beatriz
1723-1790
Life of Adam Smith
1736-1795
Reign of Qianlong
1745-1797
Life of Olaudah Equiano
1754-1763
French and Indian War in
North America
Seven Years’ War
1689-1755
1756-1763
1763
1768-1780
1788
1793
1793-1804
1807
1865
Transfer of French Canadian
possessions to British Rule
Captain James Cook’s
voyages in the Pacific Ocean
Establishment of the first
European colony in
Australia
British trade mission to
China
Haitian revolution
End of the British slave
trade
Abolition of slavery in the
United States