AP World History
1450 C.E. - 1750 C.E.
Timeline Work
Instructions: Take all of the following events, people, and places and 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. Multipleyear events need to be bracketed.
Beginning of Portuguese slave trade
Columbus' first voyage
Council of Trent
Dias' voyage into Indian Ocean
End of the British slave trade
Establishment of 1st colony in Australia
Foundation of Society of Jesus
Galileo Galilei
Haitian Revolution
John Calvin
John Locke
Martin Luther
Mughal dynasty
Ottoman dynasty
Peace of Westphalia
Prince Henry the Navigator
Qing dynasty
Reign of Akbar
Reign of Emperor Wanli
Reign of Mehmed the Conqueror
Reign of Suleyman the Magnificent
Reign of Sunni Ali
Safavid dynasty
Seven Years' War
Songhay Empire
Spanish Armada
Spanish conquest of Mexico
Thirty Years' War
Tokugawa shogunate
Treaty of Tordesillas