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1450-1750 World History
Events including the Reformation, Age of Exploration, Reformation, Renaissance, Enlightenment, and the Ottoman Empire.
Created by
Carlyn Shaw
⟶ Updated 1 Feb 2018 ⟶
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Jan Hus burned at the stake 1415
Ottomans conquered Constantinople 1453
Da Vinci’s Ginerva de Benci completed 1476
Topkapi Palace completed 1478
Suleymaniye mosque completed 1478
Columbus departs on first voyage 1492
Vasco de Gama reaches India, having sailed around Africa 1497
David completed 1504
Waldseemuller's map completed, showing the Americas as a landmass for the first time 1507
Erasmus’ Praise of Folly published 1511
Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel completed 1512
95 Theses 1517
Cortez conquers the Aztecs under Montezuma 1521
Zwingli’s 67 Articles 1523
Pizarro conquers the Inca 1533
Suleiman the lawgiver’s reign begins, 1530
Copernicus’ On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres published 1543
City of Potosi founded at Potosi silver mine 1545
Massacre at Wassy, a massacre of French Protestants, 1562
Roanoke founded by the English 1585
Quebec founded by the French 1608
Thirty Years War begins 1618
Galileo’s Trial 1633
Jean Baptiste Colbert begins his role as Finance Minister of France (height of mercantilist policies in France 166
Newton publishes Principia Mathematica, 1687
Leeuwenhoek observes single-celled organisms in his microscope, 1676
Charles I executed 1649
James II exiled 1688
English Bill of Rights signed 1689
Versailles palace completed 1710
