The archive

Every entry, filed by century

31 of 34 entries are published. Inside a century the order is by year.

13th century

1 published

1279The Battle of Yamen and the End of the SongSingleAsia · 1276 – 19 March 1279

14th century

1 published

1368The Founding of the Ming DynastySingleAsia · 1351 – 1368

15th century

2 published

1453The Fall of ConstantinopleSingleEurope · 6 April – 29 May 1453 1492Columbus Reaches the CaribbeanSingleThe Americas · 3 August – 12 October 1492

16th century

3 published

1517Luther's Ninety-five ThesesSingleEurope · 31 October 1517 1521The Fall of TenochtitlanSingleThe Americas · February – 13 August 1521 1588The Defeat of the Spanish ArmadaSingleEurope · May – September 1588

17th century

3 published

1600The Battle of SekigaharaSingleAsia · 21 October 1600 1648The Peace of WestphaliaSingleEurope · 1644 – 24 October 1648 1687Newton's PrincipiaSingleEurope · 1684 – 5 July 1687

18th century

3 published

1776The American Declaration of IndependenceSingleThe Americas · April 1775 – September 1783 1789The French Revolution BeginsSingleEurope · May – August 1789 1793Two Embassies, One Autumn: Macartney in Beijing and the First CoalitionFoldEurope / Asia · September 1793

19th century

10 published

18041804: Haitian Independence and the Code CivilFoldThe Americas / Europe · 1791 – 1 January 1804 1815Waterloo and the Congress of ViennaSingleEurope · September 1814 – November 1815 1824The Battle of Ayacucho and the End of Spanish AmericaSingleThe Americas · 9 December 1824 1839The First Opium WarSingleAsia · 1839 – 1842 1848The Revolutions of 1848SingleEurope · January – October 1848 18531853: Perry in Edo Bay and the Crimean WarFoldAsia / Europe · 8 July 1853 – 31 March 1854 1863Two Emancipations: 1861 and 1863FoldThe Americas / Europe · 22 September 1862 – 1865 1868The Meiji RestorationSingleAsia · 1866 – 1877 18851885: The Berlin Conference and the Sino-French WarFoldAfrica / Asia · 15 November 1884 – 26 February 1885 1896The Battle of AdwaSingleAfrica · 1 March 1896

20th century

8 published

1905Two Empires in Manchuria: 1905FoldAsia / Europe · 1904 – September 1905 1911The Xinhai Revolution and the End of the MonarchySingleAsia · 10 October 1911 – 12 February 1912 1914The July Crisis and the Outbreak of 1914SingleEurope · 28 June – 4 August 1914 1919The Same Spring: Versailles and the May Fourth MovementFoldEurope / Asia · 18 January 1919 – 21 January 1920 1947The Partition of IndiaSingleAsia · 3 June – 15 August 1947 1957Ghana's IndependenceSingleAfrica · 6 March 1957 1960The Year of AfricaSingleAfrica · January – December 1960 1989The Fall of the Berlin WallSingleEurope · 9 November 1989

Regions

Europe

From the fall of Constantinople to the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Asia

Yamen, Sekigahara, the opium trade, the Meiji restoration and after.

The Americas

Landfall in 1492, the colonial order, and the republics that replaced it.

Africa

Partition, the one army that was not defeated, and the year of independence.

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