World History II - Timeline

Pope Nicholas V gives Portugal permission to enslave W. African pagans.

Pope Nick strikes again and causes the slave trade to enter the interior of Africa.

Almina Castle becomes a primary holding cell for slaves and gold waiting in Ghana for trade (Barracoons).

The Zong: illustrates the horrors of the Middle Passage and chattel slavery.

Bacon's Rebellion: Slave response to governmental/social racism in the British colonies.

First Maroon Wars:Failed attempt by the Brits to enslave runaways.Demonstrates the rebellious power of slaves.

Stono Rebellion: example of the ability of slaves to rise against the horrors inflicted upon them.

Beginning of the Efuru Cult: example of how Africans combatted the slavers in the African interior.

Murad I founds the janissary corps in the Ottoman Empire. Christian slaves given opportunity to move up social scale.

Osman begins the Ottoman Empire in Anatolia.

The Auspicious Incident: janissary barracks destroyed to control them under Mahmud II. Modernization of Ottoman Empire.

La Malinche gifted to Cortés

La Malinche dies

Tenochtitlán falls; Mexico City and the Spanish Empire begins

Incan ruler Atahualpa is killed by conquistadors. Empire falls.

Florentine Codex published: gives Europeans insightinto the lives of American natives

John Cabot attempts to find NW Passage: begins wealthy cod trade for England

Dutch East India Company begins: imperialism of Spice Islands; land and sea domination

British East India Company begins: sets up in India since Netherlands control the islands

95 Theses: symbolic beginning of Reformation, specifically Lutheranism

Matteo Ricci arrives in China: start of Jesuit/Western influence in China

Addison Pratt: begins Mormon religious imperialism in the Pacific

Jamaica is the primary exporter of sugar.

Lady Anna of Bedford begins afternoon tea thereby cementing in British culture the reason for exploiting Eastern trade resources.

Bussa's Revolt: response to British slave trade ending without actually freeing the slaves

British abolish slavery in the Empire

Napoleon begins to reinstate French slavery in the colonies

Songhai Kingdom: Had slaves known as the arbi who could rise through social ranks in positions like artisans or soldiers. This slavery predates "modern" chattel slavery.

Indian Ocean Trade: Dominated by Muslim spice trade. Early plantation slavery in Africa.

Trans-Atlantic Trade: Brings African slaves to the Americas and raw goods to Europe; start of chattel slavery.

Racial slavery begins in the Americas: Virginia's laws to limit the rights of blacks/slaves in the colony.

Reign of Murad II: founded devshirme system of gaining slaves. Tribute to the sultan that supported janissaries.

Mughal Empire

British East India Company

Haitian Revolution: response to French Revolution and the lack of freedom for all in the French Empire.

Enlightenment: a revolution in thought focussed on the recognition of natural law and rights of humans; philosophes.

American Revolution

French Revolution

Haitian Revolution