Timeline - 1300-1718
4000 B.C.-30 A.D. | 1000-1200 | 1300-1718 | 1762-1896 | 1902-
The Renaissance - 1300-1500
c.1300
Invention of spinning wheel.
1342
Chinese Empress Ma is born.
1429
Joan of Arc liberated Orleans, France, from English rule. She is burned at the stake in 1431.
1470
Queen Isabella creates a unified Spain.
1492
Queen Isabella approves the expedition to America led by Christopher Columbus; they land in the Bahamas.
c. 1503
Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa.
1553
Queen Mary I tries to reestablish Roman Catholicism in England.
1558
Queen Elizabeth I took the throne in Britain.
1620
Pilgrims and others arrive in Plymouth, Massachusetts, aboard the Mayflower.
1702
Queen Anne's War
1718
Mary Montagu introduced smallpox vaccine to England.
Sources:
Chronology of Women Worldwide, Gale.
Women's Firsts, Gale.
Women's Chronology, Gale.
4000 B.C.-30 A.D. | 1000-1200 | 1300-1718 | 1762-1896 | 1902-