Era #4 Dates Flashcards
1453
Ottomans capture Constantinople
1450s
Printing Press in Europe
1480s
Height of Aztec Empire
1488
Dias round Cape of Good Hope
1492
Columbus/ Reconquista of Spain
1502
1st African slaves to America
1517
Martin Luther/ Protestant Reformation
1519 - 1521
Cortez conquered the Aztecs
1521 - 1523
Magellan circumnavigates
1529
1st unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna (Suleiman the Magnificent)
1533
Pizzaro topples the Inca
1545
Discovery of Silver at Potosi
1571
Battle of Lepanto (Ottoman naval defeat)
1571
1st Manila Galleon (global trade of silver)
1588
Spanish Armada
1600
Battle of Sekighara (beg of Tokugawa Shogunate)
1607
Foundation of Jamestown
1618 - 1648
30 Years War
1644 - 1911
Qing Dynasty
1653
Cape town colony founded (Dutch)
1683
2nd unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna (Mehmet IV)
1689
Glorious Revolution/ English Bill of Rights