Postclassical Timeline- Laney Distel
Events
Ming Dynasty
1368 - 1644
Gutenberg's printing press starts becoming influential
1450
Ottoman capture of Constantinople
1453Much of Russia freed from Tatars by Ivan the Great
1462Portugal establishes a fort along the Gold Coast
1481Portuguese round Cape of Good Hope
1488Christopher Columbus' Journey to the Americas
1492
Spanish Inquisition begins
1492Treaty of Tordesillas
1494
Vasco de Gama's first voyage to India
1497First Spanish Colonies on Latin American Mainland
1509Portuguese conquer Malacca
1511
Ottoman Victory over Safavids at Chaldiron
1514Luther's 95 Theses
1517Magellan circumnavigates the globe
1519 - 1521Hernan Cortes conquers the Aztecs
1520Rule of Suleyman the Magnificent
1520 - 1566Babur conquers India at Battle of Panipat
1526Francisco Pizarro conquers the Incas
1533Life of Ivan the Terrible
1533 - 1584
Catholic Reformation
1545 - 1648Religious Wars in France, Germany, and Britain
1550 - 1649Reign of Akbar
1556 - 1605English slave trade begins
1562
Ottoman fleet defeated in Battle of Lepanto
1571Jesuits arrive in China
1580 - 1589Reign of Abbas I (the Great) in Persia
1588 - 1629Commercial Revolution
1600Dutch and British take over Portuguese- controlled parts of Asia
1600 - 1700Rise of Asante and Dahomey kingdoms
1600 - 1800Tokugawa Shogunate established
1603Time of Troubles
1604 - 1613Romanov dynasty
1613
Christianity banned in Japan
1614Thirty Years War
1618 - 1648Construction of Taj Mahal begins
1632
