Unit 3 Timeline

Question 1

Ottoman Empire:
Selim I conquers Egypt and Syria

Answer 1

1516-1517

Question 2

Ottoman Empire:
Reign of Suleiman the Magnificent; peak of the Ottoman Empire

Answer 2

1520-1556

Question 3

Ottoman Empire:
First Ottoman siege of Vienna

Answer 3

1529

Question 4

Ottoman Empire:
Ottoman naval defeat at Lepanto

Answer 4

1571

Question 5

Ottoman Empire:
End of Anatolian revolts

Answer 5

1610

Question 6

Ottoman Empire:
Janissary revolt begins period of Ottoman conservatism

Answer 6

1730

Question 7

Safavid Empire:
Shah Ismail establishes Safavid rule in Iran

Answer 7

1502-1524

Question 8

Safavid Empire:
Reign of Shah Abbas the Great; peak of Safavid Empire

Answer 8

1587-1629

Question 9

Safavid Empire:
Afghan invaders topple last Safavid shah

Answer 9

1722

Question 10

Safavid Empire:
Nadir Shah temporarily reunites Iran, invades India

Answer 10

1736-1747

Question 11

Mughal Empire:
Babur defeats last sultan of Delhi

Answer 11

1526

Question 12

Mughal Empire:
Akbar rules in Agra; peak of Mughal Empire

Answer 12

1556-1605

Question 13

Mughal Empire:
Aurangzeb imposes conservative Islamic regime

Answer 13

1658-1707

Question 14

Mughal Empire:
Iranians under Nadir Shah sack Delhi

Answer 14

1739

Question 15

Russia:
Ivan IV adopts title of Tsar

Answer 15

1547

Question 16

Russia:
Russians conquer Khanate of Sibir

Answer 16

1582

Question 17

Russia:
Rule of Mikhail, the first Romanov tsar

Answer 17

1613-1645

Question 18

Russia:
Subordination of serfs complete

Answer 18

1649

Question 19

Russia:
Rule of Peter the Great

Answer 19

1689-1725

Question 20

Russia:
St. Petersburg becomes Russia’s capital

Answer 20

1712

Question 21

Spain’s golden century

Answer 21

1500s

Question 22

Protestant Reformation begins

Answer 22

1519

Question 23

Scientific Revolution begins

Answer 23

1540s

Question 24

Catholic Reformation begins

Answer 24

1545

Question 25

Witch-hunts increase in Europe

Answer 25

Late 1500s

Question 26

Holland’s golden century

Answer 26

1600s

Question 27

First stock exchange built in Amsterdam

Answer 27

1611

Question 28

Tulip bubble in Netherlands

Answer 28

1636-1637

Question 29

The Enlightenment begins

Answer 29

1700s

Question 30

Mississippi Company bubble in France

Answer 30

1719-1720

Question 31

South Sea Company bubble in England

Answer 31

1720

Question 32

Dutch develop flyboats

Answer 32

1590s

Question 33

Little Ice Age begins

Answer 33

1590s

Question 34

Growing depletion of forests

Answer 34

1600s

Question 35

Galileo’s astronomical telescope

Answer 35

1609

Question 36

Canal du Midi completed

Answer 36

1682

Question 37

English mine nearly 5 million tons of coal a year

Answer 37

1750

Question 38

Lisbon earthquake

Answer 38

1755

Question 39

Ottoman attack on Hapsburg Empire

Answer 39

1526-1571

Question 40

German Wars of Religion

Answer 40

1546-1555

Question 41

French Wars of Religion

Answer 41

1562-1598

Question 42

Netherlands Revolt against Spanish

Answer 42

1566-1648

Question 43

Thirty Years’ War

Answer 43

1618-1648

Question 44

English Civil War

Answer 44

1642-1649

Question 45

Anglo-Dutch Wars

Answer 45

1652-1678

Question 46

Wars of Louis XIV

Answer 46

1667-1697

Question 47

Ottoman wars

Answer 47

1683-1697

Question 48

War of the Spanish Succession

Answer 48

1701-1714