Period 2 Must Know Dates

Question 1

Gutenberg invents to printing press

Answer 1

1440

Question 2

Constantinople conquered by ottomans

Answer 2

1453

Question 3

Russian independence from the Mongols

Answer 3

1480

Question 4

Columbus’s voyage; end of the Spanish Reconquista and expulsion of Spanish Jews

Answer 4

1492

Question 5

King Afonso of the Kongo writes to King of Portugal asking him to slow the slave trade

Answer 5

1514

Question 6

Martin Luthor begins the Protestant Reformation

Answer 6

1517

Question 7

Spanish conquest of Aztec Empire

Answer 7

1521

Question 8

Mughal Empire established in India

Answer 8

1526

Question 9

Ottomans defeated by Europeans at the Battle of Lepanto

Answer 9

1571

Question 10

Height of the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires

Answer 10

1600-1700

Question 11

Tokugawa Shogunate established in Japan

Answer 11

1603

Question 12

Jamestown colony established in Virginia

Answer 12

1607

Question 13

Ana Nzinga’s war against the Portuguese begins

Answer 13

1626

Question 14

King Louies XIV builds Palave at Versailles

Answer 14

1631

Question 15

Manchu conquer China and establish Qing Dynasty

Answer 15

1636

Question 16

Metacom (King Phillip)’s War against New Englanders begins

Answer 16

1675

Question 17

Isaac Newton publishes his work on gravity and the laws of motion

Answer 17

1687

Question 18

England establishes a constitutional monarchy with a Bill of Rights

Answer 18

1689

Question 19

John Locke publishes his Two Treatises on Governments ( beginning of Enlightenment)

Answer 19

1690

Question 20

Peter the Great begins “westernization” of Russia

Answer 20

1700