Landmarks in the Early Modern Era, 1450–1750
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Updated: 7 Nov 2018
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Portuguese attacks on Swahili citiesBenin begins to restrict slave tradeEstablishment of
Dutch settlement
in South AfricaTreaty of
Tordesillas divides
New World between
Spain and
PortugalDiscovery of silver
near PotosíJamestown,
VA, established as
first permanent
English settlement in
North AmericaFrench
colony in Quebec
establishedHigh point of
Palmares, Brazil’s largest
runaway slave communityOttoman conquest
of ConstantinopleOttoman siege of ViennaSecond Ottoman siege of ViennaOttoman printing
press closed as impiousWithdrawal of Chinese
fleet from Indian OceanVasco da Gama
arrives in IndiaRussian expansion
across Siberia beginsSpanish
takeover of
Philippines beginsJesuit missionary Matteo
Ricci arrives in ChinaEuropean missionaries expelled from JapanTokugawa shogunate
established in JapanMing/Qing transition in ChinaColumbus’s
first voyage to the
AmericasBeginnings of
Protestant ReformationCopernicus publishes
heliocentric view of the universeBeginnings
of Atlantic
slave tradePeriods
RenaissancePortuguese maritime voyagesThirty Years’ WarLife of Isaac NewtonPeter the Great begins
Westernization of RussiaEuropean EnlightenmentSonghay
Empire (West Africa)Reign of King Afonso (Kongo)Christian-Muslim conflict in EthiopiaEstablishment
of kingdom of
DahomeyWars of Islamic renewal in West AfricaAtlantic slave trade peaksSpanish
conquest of Aztec EmpireFirst Portuguese
plantations in BrazilSpanish
conquest of Inca EmpireHigh point of plantation system and slave tradeAmerican
RevolutionSafavid Empire
in PersiaFlourishing of
Mughal EmpireReign of Ottoman emperor SuleimanReign of
Mughal emperor AkbarTaj Mahal constructedFragmentation of Mughal empireBritish and Dutch East India
companies begin operations in AsiaChinese
territorial expansion
in Inner Asia
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