2019 - humanity timeline - 8th grade

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  • 387 BCE

    First Sack of Rome

  • 44 BCE

    Julius Caesar death

  • 27 BCE

    Empire begins

  • Period: 27 BCE to May 29, 1453

    Rome

  • Period: 117 to 200

    Rome at the greatest extent

  • 284

    Split of the Roman Empire and move to Constantinople

  • Period: 284 to 305

    Rule of Diocletian

  • Period: 306 to 337

    Rule of Constantine

  • 313

    Legalization of Christianity

  • Period: 400 to 1400

    Middle Ages

  • 476

    End of Western Empire

  • Period: 527 to 565

    Reign of Justinian

  • 647

    Muslims Conquer North Africa

    Muslisms conquered Maghreb
  • Period: Oct 10, 732 to Oct 11, 732

    Battle of Tours

  • Period: 768 to 813

    Rule of Charlemagne

    King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and Holy Roman Emperor from 800. Gives his crown to his son Louis the Pious (his only survived son)
  • 815

    Missionary of St. Cyril and Methodius 3

  • 826

    Missionary of St. Cyril and Methodius 1

  • 827

    Missionary of St. Cyril and Methodius 2

  • Period: 1053 to 1056

    Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa

  • Period: 1096 to 1291

    Crusades

  • 1200

    Mongol Invasion

    Mongol covered much of Asia and Eastern Europe.
  • 1215

    Magna Carta

  • Period: 1300 to

    Renaissance

  • Period: 1308 to 1320

    Dante writes the poem the Divine Comedy

    plot was set up in 1300
  • Period: 1337 to 1453

    100 year war

    Fought between France and England and lasted 116 years.
  • Period: 1347 to 1350

    Plague (Black Death)

    Likely started in Asia then in Western Europe in 1347 then in England in 1348.
  • Jul 6, 1415

    Jan Hus died

  • 1440

    Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press

  • 1453

    End of Eastern Empire

  • Period: 1469 to 1492

    Lorenzo de Medici ascends to power in Florence

    Lorenzo de' Medici ruled Florence with his brother Giuliano from 1469 to 1478. Then he came into power from 1478 to 1492.
  • 1486

    Botticelli completed the painting The Birth of Venus

    Botticelli completed the painting The Birth of Venus
    https://widowcranky.com/2018/01/09/birth-of-venus-sandro-botticelli/
  • 1500

    Copernicus’ Heliocentric Theory

  • Period: 1509 to Jan 28, 1547

    King Henry VIII as a king

  • 1511

    Erasmus published The Praise of Folly

  • Period: 1517 to

    Reformation

  • Oct 31, 1517

    Martin Luther nails 95 Theses

  • Period: 1545 to

    Counter-Reformation

    The Counter-Reformation was a period of spiritual, moral, and intellectual revival in the Catholic Church in the 16th and 17th centuries, usually dated from 1545 (the opening of the Council of Trent) to 1648 (the end of the Thirty Years' War).
  • Period: Nov 17, 1558 to

    Elizabeth I as the Queen of England

  • The invention of the microscope

    The first compound microscope made by Hans and Zacharias Janssen was in 1590.
  • Period: to

    William Shakespeare wrote many of his great plays

  • William Shakespeare builds the Globe theatre

    was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613

  • William Shakespeare wrote Hamlet

    This death of his son believed to be the reason of him to wrote "Hamlet"

  • William Shakespeare wrote Macbeth

  • Kepler discovered elliptical orbits

    Johannes Kepler published his first two laws about planetary motion in 1609, having found them by analyzing the astronomical observations of Tycho Brahe. Kepler's third law was published in 1619.

  • Galileo studies planets with his telescope

    When Galileo first viewed Jupiter through a telescope — on January 7, 1610, he discovered that the planet was accompanied by three "stars" in a line.
  • Period: to

    30 Years War

  • Bacon published Novum Organum

  • Peace of Westphalia