1450-Present MKD

1453

1453

fall of Constantinople

1492

Columbus First Voyage to new world

c. 1500

Sikhism established by guru nanak

1517

95 Theses Martin Luther

1526

First enslaved africans brought to new world

1542-1605

Reign of Akbar (mughal)

1572

Fall of Inca

1626-1635

Ana Nzingas resistance

1632/1653

Shah Hahan built Taj Mahal

1635

Tokugawa Shogunate closed to the world

1644

Qing/Manchu dynasty founded

1689

John Locke Wrote the 2nd Treatise on government

1703

Peter the Great built St. Petersburg

1722

Fall of Safavid Empire

1769

Watt’s Steam Engine Invented

1776

Declaration of Ind./Start of American Rev.

1789

French Rev/Dec. Rights of man and women

1804

Haitian Ind.

1815

Simon Bolivar wrote the Letter from Jamaica

1839

Opium Wars

1848

Charles Darwin/Marx

1857

Sepoy Mutiny

1861

Russian serfs freed

1868

Meiji Restoration

1884-5

Berlin Conference

1888

Brazil Abolished Slavery

1923

Fall of Ottoman Empire/Turkey

1949

Chinese Communist Rev

1914

Start of WWI

1915-1917

Armenian Genocide

1917

Russian Rev

1919

Mandate System Established by League of Nations

1939

Start of WWII

1941-1945

Holocaust

1945

First Atomic Bomb/Cold War

1947

Partition of India

1955

Sukarno Established the Non aligned Movement

1962

Cuban Missile Crisis

1989

Breakup of the USSR

1994

Call of Apartheid in South Africa

1995

World Trade Organization Established