1450-1750 Dates

1453

Ottomans capture Constantinople, Byzantine Empire falls

1450s

Gutenberg Printing Press in Europe

c. 1480s

Height of the Aztec Empire

1488

Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope

1492

Columbus/Reconquista of Spain

1502

1st African slaves to the Americas

1517

Martin Luther/Protestant Reformation

1521

Cortez conquered the Aztecs

1526

Mughal Empire in India begins

1529

1st unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna (under Suleiman)

1533

Pizarro toppled the Inca

1543

Copernicus; Scientific Rev begins

1545

Discovery of silver at Potosi

1571

Battle of Lepanto (Ottoman naval defeat to European coalition)

1571

1st Manila Galleon (global trade)

1588

Spanish Armada

1600

Battle of Sekigahara (beginning of the Tokugawa Shogunate)

1607

Founding of Jamestown, Virginia

1618-1648

30 years war

1644

End of Ming/beginning of Qing

1653

Cape Town colony founded (Dutch)

1683

2nd unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna (Mehmet IV)

1689

Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights