Unit 5 dates

1300-1500

The Renaissance

ca. 1350

Black Death

1453

Fall of Constantinople and the end of the Byzantine Empire

1456

Gutenberg printed the Bible

1492

Columbus sailed to America

October 31, 1517

Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses

1521

Tenochtitlan falls to the Spanish

1534

Nicolaus Copernicus publishes On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres; Act of Supremacy creates Church of England

1558-1603

Elizabethan Era

1588

Spanish Armada

1607

Founding of Jamestown, Virginia

1643-1715

Louis XIV ruled France (the Sun King)

1637

Rene Descartes published Discourse on Methods

1649

Charles I of England executed

1687

Sir Isaac Newton Published Principia Mathematica

1688

Glorious Revolution; William and Mary become co-rulers of England

1776*

Declaration of Independence signed*

1789- 1799*

The French Revolution*

1792

Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication on the Rights of Women published*

1807

Abolition of the slave trade in the entire British Empire*

1810–1825*

Wars for Independence in Latin America8

1812-1870*

Charles Dickens lived*

1815

Napoleon defeated at Waterloo*

1837-1901

Reign of Queen Victoria*

1848

Marx and Engels publish Communist Manifesto; European Revolutions*

1858

British Raj declared in India*

1861

Unification of Italy*

1868

Meiji Restoration in Japan

1871

Unification of Germany

1884

Berlin Conference: Scramble for Africa begins*

1900

Boxer Rebellion in China*

1914-1918

World War I*

1939-1945

World War II*