1453
Fall of the Eastern Roman Empire
1464-1591
Empire of Songhay
1492
The Reconquista
1494
First voyage of Christopher Columbus
1497-1498
Treaty of Tordesillas
1517
Vasco de Gama's voyage to India
1549-1521
Beginning of the Protestant Reformation
1526-1858
Spanish Conquest of Mexico
1532-1540
Mughal Dynasty
1519-1521
Spanish Conquest of PEru
1545-1563
Council of Trent
1588
Defeat of the Spanish Armada
1609-1867
Tokugawa Shogunate
1613
Beginning of the Romanov Dynasty of Russia
1643-1715
Reign of Louis XIV of France
1644-1911
Qing Dynasty
