Western Civ Timeline

  • Jan 6, 1419

    Prince Henry the Navigator opens maritime school

  • Feb 1, 1455

    Gutenberg develops movable type

  • Period: Jan 13, 1469 to

    Reconquista of Spain

  • Period: Mar 6, 1473 to Jun 18, 1543

    Copernicus

  • Sep 12, 1492

    Columbus reaches the new world

  • Period: Jul 3, 1508 to Oct 8, 1512

    Michelangelo paints the Sistine chapel

  • Period: Jan 13, 1509 to May 16, 1564

    John Calvin

  • Period: Apr 21, 1509 to Jan 28, 1547

    Reign of Henry the VIII of England

  • Apr 13, 1511

    Erasmus " Praise of Folly"

  • Jan 30, 1513

    Machiavellis " The Prince"

  • Dec 15, 1517

    M. Luther " 95 theses"

  • Period: Oct 15, 1519 to Nov 13, 1521

    Cortes interacts with Aztecs

  • Nov 12, 1519

    Megellan circumnavigates the world

  • Jun 14, 1528

    Castiglione " The book of the Courtier"

  • Jan 13, 1534

    Act of supemacy

  • Jul 18, 1540

    Establishment of the Jesuits

  • Period: Mar 22, 1545 to Dec 13, 1563

    Council of Trent

  • Nov 12, 1555

    Peace of Augsburg

  • Period: Jan 16, 1556 to

    Reign of Phillip II of Spain

  • Period: Nov 17, 1558 to

    Reign of Elizabeth I of england

  • Period: Mar 13, 1564 to

    Shakespeare

  • Nov 16, 1572

    St Bartholomews dat massacre

  • Defeat of Spanish Armada

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    Descartes

  • Edict of Nantes

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    Baroque Period

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    Rembrandt

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    Cardinal Richelieus tenure

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    Reign of Gustavus II of Sweden

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    Reign of Louis XIV of France

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    Thirty Years War

  • Mayflower compact

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    John Locke

  • Trial of Galileo

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    Isaac Newton

  • Peace of Westphalia

  • Thomas Hobbes, "Leviathan"

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    Glorious Revolution

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    Reign of Peter the Great

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    War of Spanish Succesion

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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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    war of austrian succesion

  • Montesquieu " On the Spirit of Laws"

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    French and Indian War

  • Thomas Paine " Common Sense"