what were some important events dating from 1450 to 1861? (I need at least 5)-not including civil war-?

Question

This is for a essay in high school and i need to list 5 important events that occurred from 1450 to 1861, civil war isn't allowed to be used as a topic. Post as many events as possible and state which ones you think are the most important too! Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

1474 - William Caxton prints the first English book.

1501 - Ivan the Great of Russia dies - having ended the Mongol "Golden Horde" influence in Muscovy (Moscow).

1605 - The Catholic Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament and James I fails.

1770 - Capt. James Cook discovers Botany Bay, Australia.

1859 - Construction of the Suez Canal in Egypt begins.

Answer 2

1453 - Ottoman conquest of Constantinople

1492 - Columbus voyage of discovery

1517 - Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses

1588 - Defeat of the Spanish Armada

1571 - Holy League defeats the Turkish Fleet at Lepanto.

1642-1651 - English Civil War

1649 - Beheading of King Charles I

1643 -1715 Reign of Louis XVI

1660 - Restoration of the English Monarchy with Charles II

1683 - Poles under King Jan Sobieski routed a Turkish Army besieging Vienna. The beginning of the ebb of the Ottoman Empire

1688 - King James II deposed by William III & Mary in the Glorious Revolution

You can figure the last 150 years yourself.

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Answer 3

1492- Official discovery of the Americas
1683- The western Line is drawn forbidding the American frontiersmen access west and promises made to native americans of sovereignty west of this line by the English.
The french and Indian war shortly after this.
The Pope also around this time set up a line for Portuguese and Spanish dividing up the south American lands. The Portuguese got a poor side of this deal.
1619- first enslaved people brought to the Americas. (Very important it began many racial tensions in the United States)
eh I'm too tired and will continue later.

Answer 4

The fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453 is a huge, significant event in the history of civilization.

The Quattrocento period in Italy corresponding to the high point of the Renaissance.

The Wars of Religion in the 16th and 17th centuries were important and the definitions of European nation-states came about during this period.

The growth and expansion of the British empire.

Oh yeah - the American Revolution.

Answer 5

1) The colonization of the New World
2) The American Revolution
3) The French Revolution
4) Railroads
5) The Industrial Revolution
6) Mass Production
7) Steam Power
8) Telegraph
9) Fax machine (yes, it IS that old)
10) Cotton Gin
11) Screw propellor
12) The Rise of Imperialism (Number 1 by far)

I hope that is enough to get you started.

Answer 6

Moscow is among the largest towns in the world. Is a town that's developed rapidly in recent decades, and, consequently, comprises high-rise suburbs bordering a somewhat compact traditional hub with lots of amazing old architecture. The main host to Moscow may be the Red Square that has been for centuries, one's heart and heart of Russia. Here, you are able to go to the Century St. Basil's Cathedral, one of the most famous bits of architecture on the planet and the constructivist chart of Lenin's Mausoleum. Red Square is surely a wealthy devote icons of Russia's turbulent and interesting past.

Answer 7

there were a lot the discovery of the new world, the reformation, the revolutionary war, the French revolution... ummm... i know there is a lot more than that but i can't think of any off the top of my head

Answer 8

A key event that would eventually lead to the slavery of Africans in the New World happened shortly after Columbus completed his journey to the Americas in (1492). Queen Isabel of Spain declared that all indigenous peoples in the lands Columbus had discovered were to be considered her subjects. This decree saved Native Americans from being made slaves by the Spanish, but it also meant that Spain would have to look elsewhere for the cheap labor it needed to fully exploit the vast natural resources the New World had to offer. Along with Portugal, Spain found its solution in the slave trade then existing in various parts of Africa, and began the shipping of African slaves to the Americas by 1501. By 1650, there were over 200,00 Africans in Mexico and Peru alone.


One of the most successful entrepreneurs of early colonial times was Anthony Johnson, a tobacco farmer who in (1662) became the first free black man in North America. Johnson came of age in Accomack County in the colony of Virginia. His mother was an African, and Johnson worked on a tobacco plantation until adulthood. On the same plantation he met his wife Mary, and once Johnson was able to buy their freedom, the couple raised their two sons as free men. Actually, Johnson eventually acquired five servants for himself, which at that time then qualified him to purchase a 200-acre land grant along the Puwgoteague River in Virginia. There, he founded the first independent African community in North America, which at its peak included 12 homesteads of other free black families.

In a room on Second Street in Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition of Slavery met on April 19, (1775), becoming the first American institution to formally condemn slavery. Included among its members were Thomas Paine and Benjamin Rush. Many of the organization's other members were active Quakers. As early as 1652, Quakers in Pennsylvania had passed a resolution against lifetime indenture. In the Pennsylvania Society, they worked effectively for an abolition law in their state, along with other laws to protect free blacks from kidnapping by slave traders. In 1790, the Pennsylvania Society presented Congress with the first petition calling for emancipation and an end to slavery. Benjamin Franklin was the Society's president at the time, and presenting that petition was the last public act he performed before he died.

Vermont became the first state in the Union to outlaw slavery. (1777)

One of American history's great religious leaders, Richard Allen was a slave who bought his own freedom at the age of 20 and was known as a talented preacher by white and black congregations alike. Allen started the Bethel Church in Philadelphia, and there, on April 9, (1816), he helped establish the first all-black religious denomination in the United States. The African Methodist Episcopal Church became one of the most influential autonomous institutions for blacks. It was a church that understood and answered the specific needs of its members, most of whom were former slaves. The A.M.E. Church, as it became known, established schools and aid societies and dispelled the notion that many free blacks relied on white charities to get by. By the time of the Civil War, the A.M.E had grown to over 1,600 congregations across America, and for the next hundred years its leaders remained at the forefront in the struggle for equal rights. In fact, it was two A.M.E. pastors, Oliver Brown and J.A. Delaine, who filed the legal suits against school segregation that eventually led to the landmark Supreme Court decision of "Brown vs. Board of Education" in 1954 and marked the beginning of the end of "separate but equal" laws in America.

In Mobile Bay, Alabama, the Clothilde became the last slave ship from Africa to stop at an American port. (1859)