AP World History Unit 3 + 4 complete timeline

1407 CE - Zheng He, Western Seas, Ming China

______ began his first voyage to the “______” to promote tributary trade to ______.

1453 CE - Sultan Mehmet II, Constantinople, Istanbul

______ conquered the Byzantine capital, ______, renaming it ______.

1478 CE - Grand Duke Ivan III, Novgorod, Russians

The ______ defeated the principality of ______, and claimed to rule all of the ______.

1492 CE - Christopher Columbus, Americas, Bahamas

______, sponsored by Spain, reached the ______, making landfall in the ______.

1494 CE - Treaty of Tordesillas, Spain, Portugal

The ______ is signed, dividing the newly discovered lands between ______ and ______ .

1498 CE - Vasco da Gama, India, Asia, Portugal

______ reached the shores of ______, establishing a sea route to ______ for ______.

1501 CE - Safavid Dynasty, Ismail I, gunpowder, bureaucracy

The ______ was founded by ______ using ______ weapons and a modern ______.

1505 CE - Portuguese, Kilwa, Swahili Coast trade

The ______ established a fort at ______ in East Africa, expanding their influence in the ______.

1510 CE - Portuguese, Goa, Indian Ocean region

The ______ captured ______ in India, establishing a strategic base for trade and control in the ______.

1517 CE - Martin Luther, Protestant Reformation, Ninety-Five Theses

______ began the ______ with the publication of his ______.

1517 CE - Sultan Selim I, Egypt, Mecca, Medina, caliph

______ conquered ______ and the holy cities of ______ and ______ reinforcing his claim as ______.

1519 CE - Magellan, Spanish, East Indies, Asia

______ led the ______ expedition to the ______ across the Pacific to open a new maritime trade route to ______.

1521 CE - Hernán Cortés, Aztec Empire, Spain

______ conquered the ______ of Central America for ______.

1526 CE - Babur, India, Mughal

______ established a new state in northern ______, which would soon grow to become the ______ Empire.

1529 CE - Suleiman the Magnificent, Hapsburg, Vienna

Sultan ______ laid siege to the ______ capital of ______, but failed to capture it.

1543 CE - Portuguese, Japan

______ mariners are the first Europeans to reach ______.

1550s CE

Under Czar Ivan IV, Russia turned southward and conquered the Muslim Khanates of Kazan and Astrakhan.

1550s CE

Africans were forced to work on sugar plantations in the Caribbean islands after the arrival of sugar to Brazil.

1556 CE

Akbar led the Mughal Empire’s expansion east into Bengal, and southwards to the central Indian Deccan.

1570 CE

The Ming Empire required all taxes be paid in silver.

1571 CE

Spain set up a colony in the Philippines for trans-Pacific trade from its colonies in the Americas.

1588 CE

Britain defeats the ships of the Spanish Armada and becomes ruler of the Atlantic Ocean.

1595 CE

Shah Abbas I built an army of enslaved people known as ghulams from Christian slaves taken from Armenia and Georgia.

1600 CE

The British East India Company is established and sets up trading posts in India.

1600s CE

The “time of troubles” saw Russia fall into civil war, divided between two nobles who claimed the throne.

1608 CE

Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec City, marking the beginning of permanent French settlement in Canada.

1613 CE

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

1631 CE

Shahjahan began the building of the Taj Mahal, a white marble mausoleum in memory of his wife Mumtaz Maha.

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 residents had to pay in return for protection.

1664 CE

The English captured New Amsterdam from the Dutch, renaming it New York, and solidifying English control in the region.

1682 CE

Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, reaches the mouth of the Mississippi River, claiming the entire river basin for France.

1721 CE

Under Czar Peter the Great, a war with Sweden finally led to the annexation of the Baltic Coast.

1722 CE

The Yongzheng Emperor cracked down on corruption and reformed the financial administration of the Qing Empire.

1722 CE

The last shah of the Safavid Dynasty is deposed by Afghan rebels.

1735 CE

The Qianlong Emperor conducted a series of military campaigns that eliminated the Turk and Mongol threats to China.