Title: 15 Most Important Historical Events That Changed The World Forever
Headings: 15 Most Important Historical Events That Changed The World Forever
15 Most Important Historical Events That Changed The World Forever
15 The Black Death (1346-53)
14 Pax Romana (27 BC-180 AD)
13 Fall of Constantinople (1453)
12 Civil War in the United States (1861-65)
11 Protestant Reformation (1517-1750)
10 Medical Revolution (19th-20th century)
9 Industrial and Technological Revolution (1760-1914)
8 American Revolution (1765-1783)
7 Gutenberg Printing Press (1440)
6 Renaissance (14th-17th century)
5 Colonialism (16th-20th century)
4 4, World War II (1939-45)
3 October Revolution (1917)
2 Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand II (1914)
1 French Revolution (1789-94)

Content: Previously considered instrumental in the spread of Christianity and even named after the Roman Emperor Constantine, after the Ottoman conquest the city became a stronghold for Islam. The seizure of Constantinople became a precursor to further Ottoman expansion into Europe. Mehmed was even able to claim the title “Caesar,” since whoever possessed the imperial capital controlled the empire. The siege also marked one of the first times that artillery was used in combat, and the recapture of Constantinople remained a Christian pipe dream for many years after, though the Age of Crusading was at an end. The waves of Byzantine scholars and refugees following the sack of Constantinople had an impact on the Renaissance, bringing accumulated knowledge of the Greeks and Romans to Western Europe. The conquest of Constantinople heralded not just the collapse of the Byzantine Empire and thus the “final” end of the Roman Empire after 1,500 years, and the rise of the Ottoman Empire, but also marked the end of the Middle Ages. Constantinople was renamed Istanbul and became the capital of Turkey until 1923. 12 Civil War in the United States (1861-65)
Via marxists
Many people think the American Civil War between the Union and the Confederacy merely had implications for the continental United States, but the success of a slaveholding Confederacy stretching across a territory larger than that of any European power would have been a major setback to the world anti-slavery movement, to say nothing of republican democracy. Remember that the world wasn’t exactly safe for Enlightenment ideas in the mid-1800s. Monarchy had been advancing in Europe and democratic ideals had been on the retreat since the failed revolutions of 1848.