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Europe
Cultural and Intellectual Changes Ca. 1350-1615 - Era of Renaissance Ca. 1517-1616 - Protestant Reformation 1532 - Forming of Church of England (Anglicans) 1534 - Founding of Society of Jesus (Jesuits) 1536 - Move of John Calvin to Geneva 1545-1563 - Council of Trent 1558-1603 - Elizabethan Era in England 1572-1598 - Wars of religion in France 1571 - Defeat of Turks at Lepanto by "Holy League" 1588 - English defeat of Spanish armada 1598 - Edict of Nante 1600-1750 - Scientific Revolution Ca. 1600-1750 - Baroque Era 1675-1800 - Enlightenment
Political and Economic Changes 1500-1770 - Era of commercial capitalism 1533-1586 - Reign of Ivan the Terrible in Muskovoy 1588 - Defeat of Spanish armada 1609 - Dutch independence 1618-1648 - Thirty Years War 1641-1645 - English Civil War 1648 - Congress of Westphalia 1661-1715 - Reign of Louis XIV in France 1682-1725 - Reign of Peter the Great in Russia 1688-1689 - Glorious Revolution and Declaration of Rights in England 1700-1709 - Great Northern War 1701-1714 - War of Spanish Succession 1707 - United Kingdom of England, Scotland, and Wales
Sub-Saharan Africa
1482 - First Portuguese-Kongo encounter 1487 - Portuguese discovery of Cape of Good Hope 1497 - Portuguese encounters in East Africa 1505 - Portuguese pillage of Kilwa 1507-1543 - Rule of Alfonso I in Kongo 1514 - First African slaves to Americas 1526-1870 - Trans-Atlantic slave trade 1575 - End of Portuguese technical assistance of Kongo
Middle East
1300-1923 - Ottoman Empire 1501-1736 - Safavid Persia 1514-1517 - Ottoman conquest of Syria, Egypt, and Arabia 1520-1566 - Suleiman the Magnificent 1529 - First Ottoman siege of Vienna 1682-1699 - Ottoman wars with Habsburg Austria 1554-1659 - Saadian dynasty in Morocco 1715 - Beginning of Russian conquest of Turkestan 1722 - Afghan invasion of Safavid Persia 1736-1747 - Rule of Shah in Persia
Early American-European Encounters
Exploration 1492 - First Columbian voyage 1494 - Treaty of Tordesillas 1497 - John Cabot's landing in North America 1513 - Balboa's sighting of the Pacific Ocean 1519-1521 - Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe
Latin America 1428-1521 - Aztec Empire 1440-1532 - Inca Empire 1500 - Portuguese claim on Brazil 1521 - Spanish conquest of Aztecs 1532 - First permanent Portuguese settlement in Brazil 1532-1535 - Spanish conquest of Inca Ca. 1605-1694 - Palmares maroon state
North America 1524 - French claim of Canada 1587 - First English colony of Roanoke 1604 - First French settlement of Acadia 1607 - First permanent settlement of Virginia 1608 - French settlement of Quebec City 1624 - Dutch settlement at New Yor 1627 - Colony of New France 1713 - English control of Acadia 1739 - Stono Rebellion in South Carolina 1755 - Deportation of French Acadians to Louisiana 1759 - English defeat of French in Quebec
India
1498 - Arrival of Vasco da Gama in India 1510 - Portuguese conquest of Goa 1515 - Portuguese occupation of western Ceylon 1526-1761 - Mughal Empire 1556-1605 - Reign of Akbar 1600 - Founding of British East India Company 1640s - Dutch conquest of Ceylon 1717 - English settlement in Calcutta and Bombay
Southeast Asia
1350-1767 - Ayutthaya Kingdom in Siam 1511 - Portuguese conquest of Melaka 1565 - Spanish conquest of Philippines 1619 - Dutch base at Batavia 1641 - Dutch seizure of Melaka from Portuguese 1688 - Siamese expulsion of France
China
1368-1644 - Ming Dynasty 1557 - Portuguese base at Macao 1610 - Death of Matteo Ricci in Beijing 1644-1912 - Qing Dynasty 1689 - Treaty of Nerchinsk
Japan and Korea
1338-1573 - Ashikaga Shogunate 1392-1910 - Yi Dynasty (Choson) in Korea 1549 - Beginning of Christian missions in Japan 1592-1598 - Japanese invasion of Korea 1603 - Tokugawa Shogunate founded 1637 - Christian rebellion against Tokugawa 1639-1841 - Japanese seclusion policy
