Early Modern Era Timeline (1450-1750)

Middle East

Ottoman Victory over Safavids at Chaldiron

1514

Rule of Suleyman the Magnificent

1520 - 1566

https://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/images/suleiman-the-magnificent-3.jpg

Ottoman fleet defeated in Battle of Lepanto

1571

Reign of Abbas I (The Great) in Persia

1588 - 1629

Fall of the Safavid dynasty

1722

Europe

Gutenberg's printing press starts becoming influential

1450

https://i2.wp.com/vrworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/benjamin-franklins-printing-press-science-source.jpg

Ottoman capture of Constantiople

1453

https://www.realmofhistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/animation-fall-of-constantinople-1453-ad_6-770x437.jpg

Ottoman Turks' defeat of the Byzantine Empire

1453

Protuguese round Cape of Good Hope

1488

Christopher Columbus' journey to the Americas

1492

https://libcom.org/files/imagecache/article/images/history/Indians.jpg

Spanish Inquisition begins

1492

Vasco de Gama's first voyage to India

1497

http://theholocaustandchurch.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/crusades.jpg

Commercial Revolution

1500 - 1600

Luther's 95 Theses

1517

http://blogs.thegospelcoalition.org/justintaylor/files/2010/10/Luther-nailing-theses-560x538.jpg

Magellan circumnavigates the globe

1519 - 1521

Catholic Reformation

1545 - 1648

Religious wars in France, Germany, and Britain

1550 - 1649

Scientific Revolution

1600 - 1700

Thirty Years War

1618 - 1648

Reign of King Louis XIV, France

1643 - 1715

https://www.biography.com/.image/t_share/MTE1ODA0OTcxNzA1MDA5Njc3/louis-xiv-9386885-2-sized.jpg

Enlightenment

1700 - 1800

Asia (Russia)

Much of Russia freed from Tatars by Ivan the Great

1462

Life of Ivan the Terrible

1533 - 1584

https://www.biography.com/.image/ar_1:1%2Cc_fill%2Ccs_srgb%2Cg_face%2Cq_80%2Cw_300/MTE1ODA0OTcxNjY5NjIwMjM3/ivan-iv-9350679-1-402.jpg

Time of Troubles

1604 - 1613

Romanov dynasty

1613 - 1750

Reign of Peter the Great

1689 - 1725

https://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/topic_peter_the_great.jpg

Reign of Catherine the Great

1762 - 1796

Pugachev revolt

1773 - 1775

Africa

Portugal establishes a fort along the Gold Coast

1481

English slave trade begins

1562

https://www.history.ac.uk/1807commemorated/images/brookes1b.jpg

Rise of Asante and Dahomey kingdoms

1600 - 1750

Dutch establish colony at Cape of Good Hope

1652

Americas

Treaty of Tordesillas

1494

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Spain_and_Portugal.png/400px-Spain_and_Portugal.png

First Spanish colonies on Latin American mainland

1509

Hernán Cortés conquers the Aztecs

1520

Francisco Pizarro conquers the Incas

1533

East and Southeast Asia

Ming dynasty

1450 - 1644

Portuguese conquer Malacca

1511

Jesuits arrive in China

1580 - 1590

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Ricci_Guangqi_2.jpg/170px-Ricci_Guangqi_2.jpg

Dutch and British take over Portuguese-controlled parts of Asia