SCm61 1400 Jul 10
Timur conquers the Empire of The Black Sheep Turkomans
SCm60 1406 Apr 30
Construction of the Forbidden City begins in Beijing
SCm59 1412 Jun 30
The Black Death sweeps England for a final time, in a 60-year period.
SCm58 1418 Mar 3
João Zarco leads one of the first Portuguese expeditions
to the Madeira Islands.
SCm57 1425 Feb 14
Beijing, capital of China, becomes the largest city in the world,
taking the lead from Nanjing
SCm56 1432 Jul 9
The first baccalaureate service is believed
to have originated at the University of Oxford
SCm55 1441 Feb 23
A revolt occurs in the Yucatán capital Mayapan;
the Maya civilization splits into warring city-states
SCm54 1450 Dec 6
Johannes Gutenberg has set up his movable type printing press
SCm53 1462 Dec 11
Vasili II of Russia dies, and is succeeded by his son Ivan III
Portugal begins to settle the Cape Verde Islands, with slaves
from the coast of Guinea.
SCm52 1472 Dec 1
An extensive slave trade begins in modern Cameroon
Leonardo da Vinci is listed as a master
"De sphaera mundi (written c. 1230) is first published in Ferrara,
the first printed astronomical book.
SCm51 1484 Nov 19
The first sugar mill becomes operational in the Gran Canaria
The King of Portugal appoints a commission of mathematicians
to perfect tables, to help seamen find their latitude.
SCm50 1491 Apr 17
Reconquista: The Granada War is effectively brought to an end
Nicolaus Copernicus enters the University of Kraków.
SCm49 1494 July 22
Christopher Columbus first sights Jamaica.
SCm48 1496 Aug 23
Christopher Columbus leaves Hispaniola for Spain
SCm47 1499 Nov 18
First Battle of Lepanto
Vasco da Gama arrives at Lisbon
SCm46 1502 May 3
Christopher Columbus leaves Cadiz for his final trip
SCm45 1508 Oct 4
December – Michelangelo begins painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling
SCm44 1513 Jul 9
Niccolò Machiavelli is banished from Florence
by the House of Medici, and writes The Prince.
SCm43 1518 Sep 29
July – Dancing plague of 1518
SCm42 1522 Oct 21
The Vittoria, one of the surviving ships
of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition, returns to Spain
SCm41 1526 Aug 10
The first complete printed translation of the New Testament of the Bible
into the English language arrives in England
SCm40 1530 Oct 16
Paracelsus leaves Nürnberg
Erasmus publishes A handbook on manners for children
SCm39 1534 Dec 27
Tartaglia found solution of algebraic 3-d order equation
SCm38 1538 Feb 24
Dissolution of the Monasteries in England
SCm37 1542 Aug 30
Portuguese explorer Juan Cabrillo lands in San Diego Bay
SCm36 1546 Jan 27
Trinity College, Cambridge, is founded
Michelangelo is made chief architect of St. Peter's Basilica
SCm35 1551 Jul 26
Macarius, Metropolitan of Moscow, and Ivan IV preside over
the reforming Stoglavy Synod ("Hundred-Chapter") church council.
SCm34 1556 Dec 5
Ivan the Terrible conquers Astrakhan, opening the Volga River
to Russian traffic and trade
SCm33 1560 Dec 21
The first scientific society, the Academia Secretorum Naturae, is founded
Livonian War – Battle of Ergeme
SCm32 1567 Dec 4
The Duke of Alba is sent to the Netherlands with a strong Spanish force,
to suppress unrest there.
1570:
Ivan the Terrible begins the Massacre of Novgorod.The Kingdom of Livonia is established
The Whitechapel Bell Foundry is known to be in existence in London.
By 2017, when it closes its premises in Whitechapel, it will be the oldest manufacturing company in Great Britain.
SCm31 1571 Feb 25
The Second Battle of Lepanto
Moscow is burnt by the Crimean army, under Devlet I Giray
1572:
The Sea Beggars hang 19 previously imprisoned Roman Catholic priests (the Martyrs of Gorkum) at Brielle.
Humphrey Gilbert leads 1,500 volunteers from England, on an expedition to assist the Sea Beggars
SCm30 1574 Apr 13
The city of Leiden, besieged by the Spanish,
is relieved by a Sea Beggars fleet
SCm29 1578 Sep 6
Martin Frobisher voyage
SCm28 1581 Dec 26
Francis Drake is knighted by Elizabeth I of England.
SCm27 1584 Aug 6
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SCm26 1587 Oct 14
A raid on Cádiz
1588 Spanish Armada
SCm25 1591 Dec 28
The city of Leiden, besieged by the Spanish,
is relieved by a Sea Beggars fleet
SCm24 1594 Dec 11
Tulip bulbs planted by Carolus Clusius
in the Hortus Botanicus Leiden, Holland, first flower.
SCm23 1597 Mar 31
In Nagasaki, Japan, 26 people are martyred by crucifixion.
They practiced Catholicism
Probable first performance of William Shakespeare's
The Merry Wives of Windsor.
The first edition of Francis Bacon's Essays is published
Andreas Libavius publishes Alchemia, a pioneering chemistry textbook
SCm19 1600 June 20
First meeting of Kepler and Tycho Brahe
Giordano Bruno was burned
1601:
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SCm20 1608 May 9
Ship "Mary and Margaret" leaves England
Discovery of Quebec by Cartier
Evangelista Torricelli birth
1609:
Johannes Kepler publishes Astronomia nova
SCm19 1616 December 5
Galileo said that heliocentric theory of the Solar System is correct.
1617
SCm18 1623 June 23
Tommaso Campanella publishes The City of the Sun
Blaise Pascal birth
1624:
SCm17 1630 August 7
Indians introduce pilgrims to popcorn, at Thanksgiving
Isaac Barrow, inventor of Calculus, was born
SCm16 1638 April 27
SF beginning: Publication of The Man in the Moone
Thirty Years' War – The Treaty of Hamburg
1639:
Desargues introduces the concept of infinity into geometry.
SCm15 1646 February 1
Pascal's Law of hydrostatics is developed
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SCm14 1653 October 14
Oliver Cromwell expels the Rump Parliament in England.
The Taj Mahal mausoleum is completed at Agra
SCm13 1660 January 11
The Long Parliament disbands
The Parliament of England declares Prince Charles Stuart,
King Charles II of England.
Isaac Barrow of Euclid's Elements
SCm12 1665 February 11
Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society starts publishing
1666:
Molière's comedy The Misanthrope
Great Fire of London
A sobor (church council) of the Russian Orthodox Church
deposes Patriarch Nikon of Moscow,
but accepts his liturgical reforms.
Dissenters from his reforms, known as Old Believers, continue to this day.
SCm11 1672 September 21
Charles II enacts Declaration of Indulgence
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SCm09 1687 January 2
Morean War – Battle of Patras: The Republic of Venice defeats the Ottomans
Great Turkish War – Battle of Mohács: The Habsburg imperial army, and allies
under Charles V, Duke of Lorraine, defeat the Ottoman Turks
Newton's the Principia is published
SCm08 1694 May 12
The French Navy defeats Spain during the Battle of Torroella
The Bank of England is founded
The Great Fire of Warwick breaks out and destroys half the town
The notorious voyage of the English slave ship Hannibal ends
SCm07 1699 August 11
Venice, Poland, Holy Roman Empire sign the Treaty of Karlowitz with the Ottoman Empire
Priority of calculus invention dispute
350 rebellious Streltsy are executed in Moscow
1700: The Battle of Narva
SCm06 1707 August 18
The Treaty of Union, of Scotland and England, is ratified by the Parliament of Scotland.
Charles XII of Sweden launches his campaign to conquer Russia
Birth of Euler and Linney
1709: The Battle of Poltava
SCm05 1713 May 6
Skirmish at Bender: Charles XII of Sweden is defeated by the Ottoman Empire
Frederick William I of Prussia begins his reign
French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance
to Great Britain, or leave Nova Scotia.
SCm04 1719 August 5
Daniel Defoe publishes Robinson Crusoe.
SCm03 1726 January 3
April 15: I. Newton tells W.Stukeley the story of how he developed theory of gravity
Muhammad bin Saud becomes head of the House of Saud.
SCm02 1734 April 18
George Berkeley publishes The Analyst
Euler introduces technique for solving first-order equations.
SCm01 1740 November 4
Great Britain accepted alien immigrants in the colonies
Micheli du Crest creates a spirit thermometer
SCm00 1748 March 10
The first Lutheran Church body in America is founded
Leonhard Euler publishes Introductio in analysin infinitorum
SC00 1759 March 3
Voltaire's satire Candide is published
The Seven Years' War (the first world war)
Halley's comet returns : for the first time at the prediction date
SC01 1769 June 8
James Watt is granted a patent for
"A method of lessening the consumption of steam in steam engines"
1770: Boston Tea Party
SC02 1780 December 18
Louis XVI abolishes the use of torture
1781:
American Revolution: American and French troops begin a siege of the British at Yorktown, Virginia.
Following the Siege of Yorktown, General Cornwallis surrenders to George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia,
ending the armed struggle of the American Revolution.
SC03 1791 December 27
Michael Faraday birth
1789:
Storming of the Bastille