A MAP OF TIME
1453Ottoman conquest of Constantinople
1464–1591Songhay Empire in West Africa
1480Russia emerges from Mongol rule
1494Treaty of Tordesillas divides the Americas between Spain and Portugal
1501Safavid Empire established in Persia/Iran
1519–1521Spanish conquest of Aztec Empire
1526Mughal Empire established in India
1529Ottoman siege of Vienna
1530sFirst Portuguese plantations in Brazil
1532–1540Spanish conquest of Inca Empire
1550Russian expansion across Siberia begins
1565Spanish takeover of Philippines begins
1607Jamestown, Virginia: first permanent English settlement in Americas
1608French colony established in Quebec
1680–1760Chinese expansion into Inner Asia
1683Second Ottoman siege of Vienna
After 1707Fragmentation of Mughal Empire