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1450-1750 Dates
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1453 | Ottomans capture Constantinople |
| 1450s | Gutenberg Printing Press in Europe |
| c. 1480s | Height of the Aztec Empire |
| 1488 | Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope |
| 1492 | Columbus/Reconquista of Spain |
| 1502 | 1st African slaves to the Americas |
| 1517 | Martin Luther/Protestant Reformation |
| 1521 | Cortez conquered the Aztecs |
| 1526 | Mughal Empire in India begins |
| 1529 | 1st unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna (under Suleiman) |
| 1533 | Pizarro toppled the Inca |
| 1543 | Copernicus; Scientific Rev begins |
| 1545 | Discovery of silver at Potosi |
| 1571 | Battle of Lepanto (Ottoman naval defeat to European coalition) |
| 1571 | 1st Manila Galleon (global trade) |
| 1588 | Spanish Armada |
| 1600 | Battle of Sekigahara (beginning of the Tokugawa Shogunate) |
| 1607 | Founding of Jamestown, Virginia |
| 1618-1648 | 30 years war |
| 1644 | End of Ming/beginning of Qing |
| 1653 | Cape Town colony founded by Dutch |
| 1683 | 2nd unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna (Mehmet IV) |
| 1689 | Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights |