Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor 1500-1558 Philip II, king of Spain 1527-1598 William the Silent, leader of Dutch revolt against the Spanish 1533-1584 Mary, Queen of Scots 1542-1587 James VI of Scotland, James I of England 1566-1625 Henry IV, king of France 1553-1610 Reign: 1589-1610 Samuel Champlain founder of Quebec City 1574-1635 Henry Hudson English sea explorer and navigator in 1600 s Toyotomi Hideyoshi Imperial Regent of Japan 1536-1598 Tokugawa Ieyasu 1 st Tokugawa shogun 1543-1616 Mayflower sets sail from England 1620 William Bradford English Separatist leader 1590 1657
Squanto taught the Plymouth colonists to plant maize 1585-1622 Rembrandt van Rijn 1606-1669 John Rolfe plants tobacco and exports from Virginia to England 1614 Queen Nzinga of Angola Signs a peace treaty with Portugal 1657 Sultan Murad II Kodja of the Ottoman Empire 1404-1451 Ferdinand II King of Germany 1578-1637 Christian IV King of Denmark 1577-1648 Gustavus II King of Sweden 1594-1632 Manchu Dynasty Last imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 Tokugawa Iemitsu 3 rd Tokugawa shogun 1604-1651 Shah Jahan of the Mughal Empire 1592-1666 Reign: 1628-1658 Aurangzeb of the Mughal Empire 1618-1707 Reign: 1658-1707
Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector 1599-1658 Charles II, king of England, Scotland and Ireland 1630-1685 Great fire of London 1666 Louis XIV, king of France 1638-1715 Reign: 1643-1715 Frederick I, King in Prussia 1657-1713 Reign: 1701-1713 Mary-Madeleine de Vercheres 1678-1747 William Penn Early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania 1644-1718 Galileo Italian physicist, mathematician, engineer, astronomer, and philosopher 1564-1642 Isaac Newton English physicist and mathematician 1642-1727 John Locke English philosopher and physician 1632-1704 Peter the Great of Russia 1672-1725 Reign: 1682-1725 Kara Mustafa, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire 1634-1683
Ahmed III, the tulip king Ottoman Sultan Reign: 1703-1730 Nadir Shah of Persia 1688-1747 Reign: 1736-1747 Siraj ud-daulah, Nawab of Bengal 1733-1757 Reign: 1756-1757 Qianlong Emperor of China 1711-1799 Reign: 1735-1796 George I of England 1660-1727 Reign: 1714-1727 King William s War England vs France in N. America 1689-1697 Queen Anne s War French vs English Colonists 1702-1713 King George s War English vs Spanish 1744-1748 George III, king of Great Britain 1738-1820 Reign: 1760-1820 American Revolution 1765-1783 George Washington 1 st President of the USA In Office: 1789-1797 1732-1799 James Cook British Explorer Finds Australia in 1770 1728-1779
Arthur Philip 1 st Governeor of New South Wales In office 1788-1795 1738-1814 Louis XVI, king of France 1754-1793 Reign: 1774-1792 The execution of Robespierre on 28 July 1794 marked the end of the Reign of Terror The Paris Commune storms the Tuileries Palace and massacred the Swiss Guards, 1792 French Revolution 1789 Maximilien Robespierre Started the French Revolution 1758-1794 The Storming of the Bastille, the start of the French Revolution 1789 Catherine the Great 1729-1796 Reign: 1761-1762 James Watt 1736-1819 Perfected the Steam Engine in 1769 Watt Steam Engine 1769 Eli Whitney 1765-1825 Invented the Cotton Gin in 1793 The Cotton Gin 1793
Confucius Chinese philosopher 551 479 BC Rise of the Opium Trade 1793 George Macartney Embassy to China 1793 1737-1806 The Battle of Trafalgar 1805 Napoleon Bonaparte French military and political leader 1769-1821 Admiral Horatio Nelson of Britain 1758-1805 The Battle of the Nile 1798 Toussaint Louverture Leader of the Haitian Revolution 1743-1803 Battle at San Domingo 1791-1804 Haitian Independence 1804 Alexander Hamilton 1st United States Secretary of the Treasury 1755-1804 Thomas Jefferson 3rd President of the United States 1743-1826 Lewis & Clark Led the first American expedition to cross the west to the Pacific Coast 1804-1806
The War of 1812 USA vs Brittain Louis XVIII king of France 1755-1824 Reign: 1795-1824 Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of Elba Exiled to Elba in 1813 Joseph Bonaparte King of Spain 1768-1844 Reign: 1808-1813 Simón Bolίvar Fought for South America s independence from 1811 1783-1830 José de San Martίn Protector of Peru 1778-1850 Miguel Hidalgo leader of the Mexican War of Independence in 1810 1753-1811 Mexico Independent 1821 Emperor Agustín I of Mexico 1783-1824 Reign: 1822-1823 Slavery made illegal in Great Britain in 1833 Britain claims the Cape Colony 1820 Indian Removal Act passed 1830
Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831 1800-1831 The Treaty of Nanking Signed between Great Britain and China in 1842 Texas War of Independence 1835 Mexican/American War 1846 Flagstaff War / Maori/British War 1845 Treaty of Waitangi 1840 California Gold Rush 1848