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Ming Dynasty
1368 - 1644
Gutenberg's printing press starts becoming influential
1450
Ottoman capture of Constantinople
1453
Much of Russia freed from Tatars by Ivan the Great
1462
Portugal establishes a fort along the Gold Coast
1481
Portuguese round Cape of Good Hope
1488
Christopher Columbus' Journey to the Americas
1492
Spanish Inquisition begins
1492
Treaty of Tordesillas
1494
Vasco de Gama's first voyage to India
1497
First Spanish Colonies on Latin American Mainland
1509
Portuguese conquer Malacca
1511
Ottoman Victory over Safavids at Chaldiron
1514
Luther's 95 Theses
1517
Magellan circumnavigates the globe
1519 - 1521
Hernan Cortes conquers the Aztecs
1520
Rule of Suleyman the Magnificent
1520 - 1566
Babur conquers India at Battle of Panipat
1526
Francisco Pizarro conquers the Incas
1533
Life of Ivan the Terrible
1533 - 1584
Catholic Reformation
1545 - 1648
Religious Wars in France, Germany, and Britain
1550 - 1649
Reign of Akbar
1556 - 1605
English slave trade begins
1562
Ottoman fleet defeated in Battle of Lepanto
1571
Jesuits arrive in China
1580 - 1589
Reign of Abbas I (the Great) in Persia
1588 - 1629
Commercial Revolution
1600
Dutch and British take over Portuguese- controlled parts of Asia
1600 - 1700
Rise of Asante and Dahomey kingdoms
1600 - 1800
Tokugawa Shogunate established
1603
Time of Troubles
1604 - 1613
Romanov dynasty
1613
Christianity banned in Japan
1614
Thirty Years War
1618 - 1648
Construction of Taj Mahal begins
1632
Japan moves into self-imposed isolation
1640
Dutch begin conquests of Java (Indonesia)
1641
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Reign of King Louis XIV, France
1643 - 1715
Manchu Qing Dynasty Rules China
1644 - 1750
Ditch establish colony at Cape of Good Hope
1652
Reign of Peter the Great
1689 - 1725
Scientific Revolution
1700
Fall of the Safavid dynasty (1722)
1722
Mughal capital sacked
1739
Reign of Catherine the Great
1762 - 1796
Pugachev Revolt
1773 - 1775
Enlightenment
1800
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