Women's History

Timeline, 1300-1718

4000 B.C.-30 A.D. | 1000-1200 | 1300-1718 | 1762-1896 | 1902-1999 | 2000+

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.