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Timeline 16century - 20century
Timeline 16century - 20century
The Magellan Expedition The beginning of the Scientific Spanish conquest of the Inca
(1519-1522) Revolution (1543 onwards) Empire (1532-1572)
The Fall of Tenochtitlan The Siege of Rhodes The Reformation of Japan is unified (1590)
and the Aztecs (1521) (1522) Europe (1517-1555)
Timeline of 17thCentury
The crowns of England and The Mayflower brings the Pilgrims
The Great Turkish War (1683-1699)
Scotland unite (1603) to North America (1620)
Russia’s Time of Troubles Europe’s Thirty Year The Fall of China’s Ming Isaac Newton publishes
ends (1613) War (1618–1648) Dynasty (1644) Philosophiae Naturalis Principia
Mathematica (1687)
Timeline of 18thCentury
The War of Spanish British Industrial Revolution begins
The French Revolution (1789-1799)
Succession (1701-1714) (1760)
Mass expansion in China The American Revolution The James Cook The end of the Polish-Lithuanian
(1735-1799) (1765-1791) explores the Pacific Commonwealth (1795)
(1768-1779)
Timeline of 19thCentury
Slavery abolished in
The Napoleonic Wars Widespread European
the West (1807-
(1802-1815) Revolution (1848)
1888)
Wilhelm II Retreats
Turks Massacre Austria Battle of the Allied Hundred Treaty of Brest-
(1918) Benito Mussolini's
Bulgarians (1903) Days Offensive Litovsk (1918)
Declares War Somme (1916) National Fascist Party
on Serbia (1914) (1918)
(1922)
Timeline of 20thCentury Italy invades
Atomic
bombings of
Wall Street Crash and Tripartite Pact Hiroshima and
Egypt (1940) Operation
Great Depression Rome-Berlin Axis (1940) Overlord (1944)
Nagasaki (1945)
(1929) (1936)
Battle of
Adolf Hitler becomes Germany Fall of France (1940)
Midway (1942) Battle of Berlin
Chancellor of Germany invades Poland Attack on Pearl
(1933) (1939) Harbor (1941) (1942)