1450s
Ottomans capture Constantinople
1453
Printing Press in Europe (Gutenberg)
c. 1480s
Height of Aztec Empire
1488
Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope
1492
Columbus/Reconquista of Spain
1502
1st African Slaves to Americas
1517
Martin Luther/Protestant Reformation
1519 to 1521
Cortez conquered the Aztecs
1521 to 1523
Magellan circumnavigates the Earth
1529
1st unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna
1533
Pizarro topples the Inca
1545
Discovery of silver at PotosĂ
1571
Battle of Lepanto
1600
Battle of Sekigahara
1607
Founding of the Jamestown Colony
1618
Thirty Years' War
1644
Qing Dynasty
1653
Cape Town colony founded (Dutch)
1683
2nd unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna (Mehmet IV)
1689
Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights
