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1500 CE – 1800 CE

Dated moments of the early modern world

182 dated moments dated inside this band, grouped by region and listed in order.

Europe · 65

Jerónimos Monastery 1501 CE Seville 1503 CE St. Peter's Basilica 1506 CE War of the League of Cambrai 1508 CE Ottoman–Safavid Wars 1514 CE Ottoman-Mamluk War 1516 CE German Peasants' War 1524 CE Battle of Mohács 1526 CE Schmalkaldic War 1546 CE St. Basil's Cathedral 1555 CE Süleymaniye Mosque 1557 CE Livonian War 1558 CE French Wars of Religion 1562 CE Great Siege of Malta 1565 CE Stari Most 1566 CE Eighty Years' War (Dutch Revolt) 1568 CE Battle of Lepanto 1571 CE Selimiye Mosque 1575 CE Amsterdam 1585 CE Anglo-Spanish War 1585 CE Long Turkish War 1593 CE Nine Years' War in Ireland 1593 CE Dutch-Portuguese War 1598 CE Polish–Muscovite War (Time of Troubles) 1605 CE Sultan Ahmed Mosque 1609 CE Thirty Years' War 1618 CE Battle of Breitenfeld 1631 CE Franco-Spanish War 1635 CE Catalan Revolt (Reapers' War) 1640 CE Portuguese Restoration War 1640 CE English Civil War 1642 CE Battle of Rocroi 1643 CE Ottoman-Venetian War of Candia 1645 CE Khmelnytsky Uprising 1648 CE The Fronde 1648 CE Cromwellian Conquest of Ireland 1649 CE Anglo-Dutch Wars 1652 CE First Anglo-Dutch War 1652 CE The Deluge (Swedish Invasion of Poland) 1655 CE War of Devolution 1667 CE Franco-Dutch War 1672 CE Portuguese Synagogue (Esnoga) 1675 CE Scanian War 1675 CE Palace of Versailles 1682 CE Great Turkish War 1683 CE Siege of Vienna 1683 CE Nine Years' War (War of the Grand Alliance) 1688 CE Jacobite Risings 1689 CE Battle of the Boyne 1690 CE Great Northern War 1700 CE War of the Spanish Succession 1701 CE Battle of Blenheim 1704 CE Battle of Poltava 1709 CE War of the Quadruple Alliance 1718 CE War of the Polish Succession 1733 CE War of the Austrian Succession 1740 CE Seven Years' War 1756 CE Battle of Leuthen 1757 CE Bar Confederation & First Partition of Poland 1768 CE Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774) 1768 CE Partitions of Poland 1772 CE War of the Bavarian Succession 1778 CE Russo–Swedish War (1788–1790) 1788 CE French Revolutionary Wars 1792 CE War in the Vendée 1793 CE

Middle East · 6

Safavid Empire Conquests 1501 CE Ottoman-Portuguese Wars 1538 CE Shah Mosque 1611 CE Nader Shah's Campaigns 1736 CE Wahhabi Wars / First Saudi State 1744 CE Battle of the Nile 1798 CE

South Asia · 23

Surat 1500 CE Goa 1510 CE First Battle of Panipat 1526 CE Mughal Conquests of India 1526 CE Mughal-Rajput Wars 1557 CE Fatehpur Sikri 1571 CE Mughal–Deccan Wars 1595 CE Meenakshi Temple 1600 CE Golden Temple 1604 CE Taj Mahal 1632 CE Jama Masjid 1656 CE Badshahi Mosque 1673 CE Maratha Empire Expansion 1674 CE Mughal–Maratha Wars 1680 CE Calcutta (Kolkata) 1690 CE Taktsang Palphug Monastery 1692 CE Carnatic Wars 1746 CE Durrani Empire Conquests 1747 CE British Conquest of Bengal 1757 CE Maratha-Durrani War 1758 CE Battle of Buxar 1764 CE Anglo-Mysore Wars 1767 CE Anglo-Maratha Wars 1775 CE

East Asia · 21

Toungoo Dynasty Wars 1510 CE Toungoo Empire Wars 1510 CE Burmese–Siamese Wars 1547 CE Pha That Luang 1566 CE Manila 1571 CE Nagasaki 1571 CE Erdene Zuu Monastery 1585 CE San Agustin Church 1587 CE Imjin War (Japanese Invasions of Korea) 1592 CE Battle of Myeongnyang 1597 CE Sekigahara Campaign 1600 CE Thiên Mụ Pagoda 1601 CE Satsuma Invasion of Ryukyu 1609 CE Qing Conquest of Ming Dynasty 1618 CE Shimabara Rebellion 1637 CE Wat Arun 1656 CE Konbaung–Siam Wars 1759 CE Sino-Burmese War 1765 CE Tay Son Rebellion 1771 CE Wat Phra Kaew 1782 CE White Lotus Rebellion 1796 CE

Africa · 6

Royal Hill of Ambohimanga 1500 CE Ethiopian–Adal War 1529 CE Oyo Empire Wars 1550 CE Luanda 1575 CE Moroccan Invasion of Songhai 1591 CE Rozvi Empire Wars 1684 CE

Americas · 53

Catedral Primada de América 1512 CE Havana 1519 CE Spanish Conquest of the Aztec Empire 1519 CE Veracruz 1519 CE Cathedral of San Juan Bautista 1521 CE Fall of Tenochtitlán 1521 CE Inca Civil War 1529 CE Battle of Cajamarca 1532 CE Spanish Conquest of the Inca Empire 1532 CE Cartagena de Indias 1533 CE Buenos Aires 1536 CE Callao 1537 CE Recife 1537 CE Iglesia de Santo Tomás 1540 CE Valparaíso 1544 CE Potosí 1545 CE Salvador da Bahia 1549 CE Arauco War 1550 CE Acapulco 1565 CE Church of San Francisco 1586 CE Church of São Francisco 1587 CE Metropolitan Cathedral of Buenos Aires 1593 CE Iglesia de la Compañía de Jesús 1605 CE Quebec City 1608 CE Beaver Wars (Iroquois Wars) 1609 CE Iroquois Beaver Wars 1609 CE Anglo-Powhatan Wars 1610 CE New York 1626 CE San Ignacio Miní 1632 CE São Miguel das Missões 1632 CE Pequot War 1636 CE Cathedral of Caracas 1665 CE Charleston 1670 CE King Philip's War 1675 CE Pueblo Revolt 1680 CE Mission San Xavier del Bac 1692 CE Comanche Wars 1706 CE Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe 1709 CE New Orleans 1718 CE War of Jenkins' Ear 1739 CE Cathedral of Havana 1748 CE Battle of Quebec 1759 CE Pontiac's War 1763 CE Touro Synagogue 1763 CE American Revolutionary War 1775 CE Battle of Bunker Hill 1775 CE Battle of Saratoga 1777 CE Battle of Yorktown 1781 CE Hawaiian Unification Wars 1782 CE Hawaiian Wars of Unification 1782 CE Northwest Indian War 1785 CE Haitian Revolution 1791 CE Honolulu 1794 CE

Oceania · 2

Ulun Danu Beratan 1633 CE Sydney 1788 CE

Elsewhere · 6

Kalyan Mosque 1514 CE Batavia 1619 CE Batavia (Jakarta) 1619 CE Dzungar–Qing Wars 1687 CE Kokand Khanate Wars 1709 CE Pugachev's Rebellion 1773 CE