1450 - 1750 Dates Flashcards
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| 353352175 | 1450 | Collapse of Byzantine | 0 | |
| 353352176 | 1450 | Collapse of Great Zimbabwe | 1 | |
| 353352177 | 1450 | Printing press in Europe | 2 | |
| 353352178 | 1453 | Rise of Ottoman Empire - capture of Constantinople | 3 | |
| 353352179 | 1488 | Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope - beginnings of European maritime exploration | 4 | |
| 353352180 | 1492 | Columbus and Spanish conquistadors | 5 | |
| 353352181 | 1502 | 1st slaves to the Americas | 6 | |
| 353352182 | 1517 | Luther's 95 Theses - start of Protestant Reformation | 7 | |
| 353352183 | 1521 | Cortes conquers the Aztecs | 8 | |
| 353352184 | 1533 | Pizarro conquers the Incas | 9 | |
| 353352185 | 1571 | Battle of Lepanto (keeps Ottomans out of global trade networks) | 10 | |
| 353352186 | 1588 | Defeat of Spanish Armada (beginning of end of Spain, and the start of Britain as a power) | 11 | |
| 353352187 | 1600 | Unification of Japan (Tokugawa Shogunate) - start of Japanese isolation for 250 years | 12 | |
| 353352188 | 1607 | Jamestown settled | 13 | |
| 353352189 | 1618 - 1648 | 30 Years' War (Treaty of Westphalia - start of religious toleration) | 14 | |
| 353352190 | 1683 | Ottomans lay siege to Vienna and are unsuccessful - keeps Islam out of Europe for 2nd time (now from the East) | 15 | |
| 353352191 | 1689 | Glorious Revolution in England/ English Bill of Rights | 16 |