Must Know Dates Era 2

Flashcards covering key dates and events for Era 2.

Fall of Constantinople

Occurred in 1453

Songhai Empire

Empire that lasted from 1464-1591.

Reconquista of Spain

Completed in 1492.

Columbus Sails to the New World

Occurred in 1492,

Portuguese Colonization of the Americas

Began in 1497

Vasco da Gama Reaches India

Occurred in 1498.

Safavid Empire

Empire that lasted from 1501-1722.

Protestant Reformation

Began in 1517.

Magellan's Circumnavigation

1519-1522.

Cortez Conquered the Aztecs

1519-1521.

Mughal Empire

1526-1748.

Pizarro Topples the Inca

Occurred in 1533.

French Colonization of the Americas

Began in 1534

First Enslaved People Brought to the Americas

Occurred in 1534.

Copernicus Shares Ideas About a Heliocentric Universe

Occurred in 1543.

Discovery of Silver at Potosí

Occurred in 1545.

Scientific Revolution

1550-1700.

Start of the Russian Empire

Occurred in 1552.

Akbar Rules the Mughal Empire

Period from 1556-1605

Founding of Manila

Occurred in 1571

Flush Toilet Invented

Occurred in 1596.

British East India Company Founded

Occurred in 1600.

Tokugawa Shogunate

1600-1868.

Dutch East India Company Founded

Occurred in 1602.

Britain Begins Colonizing the Americas

Began in 1607

Louis XIV Rules France

Period from 1643-1715

Qing (Manchu Dynasty)

1688-1911.

Peter the Great Rules Russia

Period from 1689-1725

Glorious Revolution in England

Occurred in 1689.

The Enlightenment

1715-1789.