AP World Unit 3-4 Timeline

38 events

1405 CE

Zheng He, tributary

1453 CE

Sultan Mehmet II, Constantinople, 

1478 CE

The Grand Duke Ivan III, Novgorod

1492 CE

Christopher Columbus, landfall in the Bahamas.

1494 CE

The Treaty of Tordesillas, Portugal.

1498 CE

Vasco da Gama reached to Portugal

1501 CE

The Safavid Dynasty was founded by Ismail I

1505 CE

The Portuguese establish a fort at Kilwa, in the Swahili Coast .

1510 CE

The Portuguese captured Goa in India, Indian Ocean .

1517 CE

Martin Luther began the Protestant Reformation with the publication of his Ninety Theses.

1517 CE

Sultan Selim I conquered Egypt and the holy cities of Mecca

1519 CE

Magellan led the Spanish expedition to the East Indies

1521 CE

Hernan Cortes conquered the Aztec

1526 CE

Babur established which would soon grow to become the Mughal Empire.

1529 CE

Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent laid siege to the Hapsburg capital of Vienna, 

1543 CE

Portuguese mariners are the first Europeans to reach Japan

1550s CE

Under Czar Ivan IV, Russia turned southward

1550s CE

Africans were forced to work on sugar

1556 CE

Akbar led the Mughal Empire’s expansion east into Bengal,

1570 CE

The Ming Empire required all taxes to be paid in silver.

1571 CE

Spain set up a colony in the Philippines for Americas.

1588 CE

Britain defeats the ships of the Spanish

1595 CE

Shah Abbas I built an army, from Christian

1600 CE

The British East India Company is established in India.

1600s CE

The “time of troubles” saw Russia fall into civil war,

1608 CE

Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec City,

1613 CE

A unified Russia re-emerged when a new ruler, Michael Romanov, was czar.

1631 CE

Shahjahan began the building of the Taj Mahal,

1644 CE

As peasant uprisings contributed to the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty captured Beijing.

1650s CE

The Safavids fought with the Mughal Empire in their eastern provinces and in Afghanistan.

1652 CE

Calvinist Dutch farmers set up a colony in southern Africa near the Cape of Good Hope.

1657 CE

Aurangzeb imposed Sharia laws and brought back the jizya tax that Hindu 

1664 CE

The English captured New Amsterdam from the Dutch, renaming it New York

1682 CE

Robert Cavalier, Siuer de La Salle, reaches the mouth of the Mississippi River, France.

1721 CE

Under Czar Peter the Great, a war with Sweden

1722 CE

The Yongzheng Emperor cracked down administration

1726 CE

The last shah of the Safavid Dynasty is assassinated.

1735 CE

The Qianlong Emperor conducted a series of military campaigns that eliminated the Turk