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English Reformation
The English Reformation took place in 16th-century England when the Church of England broke away from the authority of the pope and the Catholic Church. These events were part of the wider European Reformation, a religious and political movement that affected the practice of Christianity in Western and Central Europe -
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Galileo Galilei discovered the principle of inertia
Galileo's greatest contribution to physics was his formulation of the concept of inertia: an object in a state of motion possesses an ``inertia'' that causes it to remain in that state of motion unless an external force acts on it. Most objects in a state of motion do NOT remain in that state of motion. -
Period: 1095 to 1291
The Crusades
The crusades began in 1095 and end in 1291. The crusades were a series of religious wars between Christians and Muslims started primarily to secure control of holy sites considered sacred by both groups. The Crusades were discovered by Pope Urban II proclaimed the First Crusade at the council of Clermont. The crusades was discovered in 15, August 1096. -
1099
siege of Jerusalem
The Siege of Jerusalem was the first Crusade. Roman military blockade of Jerusalem during the First Jewish Revolt. The fall of the city marked the effective conclusion of a four-year campaign against the Jewish insurgency in Judaea. The Romans destroyed much of the city, including the Second Temple. -
Period: 1300 to 17
Early Renaissance
The word "Renaissance" comes from the Italian Rinascita, which was the first used in the 14th century. Renaissance is the painting sculpture, and decorative arts of the period of European history. The renaissance started in France, Italy in 1400. The Medici family was an Italian banking family and political dynasty. Nicolaus Copernicus discovered the renaissance. The Renaissance period cultivated a new change in art, knowledge, and culture. -
Period: 1347 to 1353
Black death
The Black Death happen in October 1347. The Black Death was when people got swelling and black purple spots that appears around the body. Also, people survive for 2 or 3 days since they got infected. The doctors used to wear mask, boots, gloves, hat and tucked-shirt. The Death ended through the implementation of quarantines, the people uninfected would stay in home and leave just when it was necessary. Around 25 million people died during the black death. The Black Death end in October 1353. -
1349
3000 Jews killed in Germany
Jews were killed in Erfurt, Germany because of the Black Death. They tried to defend themselves from the mob of Christians. The ones that survived the Black Death were soon destroyed by the mobs in 1350. There were almost no Jews left in Germany in 1351. -
Period: 1400 to 17
Age of Exploration
The Age of Exploration was a period largely overlapping with the Age of Sail. It was a period when European nation began exploring the world. Portugal is considered to have started the Age of Exploration.
How did the Age of Exploration impact the world is that It allowed more to see and study various areas around the world, which increased geography study. The Age of Exploration is important because European allowed the mapping of the world. -
1420
Architect Brunelleschi designs the dome for the Florence Cathedral.
his work, begun in the summer 1420, was completed in 1436. One of the most significant architectural achievements of the entire Renaissance was undoubtedly the construction, by Filippo Brunelleschi, of the dome over the Florence Cathedral. -
1450
The Medici Family
The Medici Family were a prestigious Italian banking family and political dynasty who held great power in Florence from the 15th to the 18th century. The Medici family was important because they innovating new banking system and laid the groundwork to make Florence a cultural hotspot. -
1455
Gutenberg’s Bible
The Gutenberg Bible was the earliest major book printed using mass-produced movable meatal type in Europe. It marked the start, of the "Gutenberg Revolution" and the age of printed books in the west. -
1488
Bartolomeu Dias Discovered the Cape of Good Hope
The Cape of Good Hope was discovered by the Portuguese navigator Bartolomeu Dias, he reached the southern tip of Africa in 1488.The Cape was originally named The Cape of Storms in the 1480s by Bartolomeu Dias but later it was renamed to Good of Good hope to attract more people to the Cape Sea Route that passed the southern coast Africa. -
Jul 3, 1492
Columbus sails to the America
On August 3,1492, The Italian explorer Christopher Columbus started his voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. With 90 men and three ships: The Niña, The Pinta and the Santa Maria. The Columbus sail to America because they wanted to find new routes to India, China, Japan and the Spice Islands. -
Period: 1495 to 1527
High Renaissance
The high Renaissance was a short period of the most exceptional artistic production in the Italian states, particularly Rome, Capital of the Papal States, and in Florence, during the Italian Renaissance. The High Renaissance art focus on in the influencer by the linear perspective, shading, and naturalistic figurative treatment launched by early Renaissance artist like Masaccio and Mantegna. The Renaissance art is defined as painting, sculpture, architecture, nd other decorative arts created. -
1497
Vasco de Gama sails around Africa
Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese navigator who, in 1497-9 sailed around the Cape of Good Hope in Southern Africa and arrived at Calicut on the South-west coast of India. Vasco da Gama sail around Africa because allowed Portuguese sailor to Avoid the Arab trading hold in the Mediterranean and Middle East. -
Period: 1500 to
Scientific Revolution
The scientific revolution was a series of events that marked the emergence of modern science during the early modern period. The scientific revolution start in 1943. The scientific revolution introduced during the 16th and 17th centuries. The scientific revolution led to the creation of the new knowledge system and network of thinkers. What are four causes of the scientific revolution are the Renaissance encouraged curiosity , investigation, discovery and modern day knowledge. -
1503
Da Vinci Paints Mona Lisa
The Mona Lisa is a painting by the Italian artist Leonardo Da Vinci. The painting is considered an archetypal master piece of the Italian Renaissance. Da Vinci paint Mona Lisa because he wanted to place a portrait of his wife, Lisa, in their new home. The painting Mona Lisa is so important because it has influenced countless painters, from Leonardo's contemporaries. -
1513
Jorge Alvares Reaches China
The first Portuguese to reach China was Jorge Alvares in 1513. In the following years, eventful contacts were established with the Chinese until, in 1557, Portuguese presence in Macau was established. From then onwards, the city became an important center for the trade of silk and porcelain. -
1513
Balboa discovered the Pacific Ocean
In September 1513, Balboa led an expedition of some 190 Spaniards and a number of Indians southward across the Isthmus of Panama. Late that same month, Balboa climbed a mountain peak and sighted the Pacific Ocean, which the Spaniards called the Mar del Sur (South Sea). -
Oct 31, 1517
Politics and the Reformation
The Reformation (alternatively named the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation) was a major movement within Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church -
Period: Oct 31, 1517 to 1555
The Reformation
The Reformation was the religious movement in the 16th century that had for its object the reform of the Roman Catholic Church, and that led to the establishment of the protestant churches. Martin Luther started the protestant revolution, he was a German teacher and a monk. -
1521
Diet of Worms
The Diet of Worms was an Imperial diet of the Holy Roman Empire called by Emperor Charles V and conducted in the Imperial Free City of Worms. Martin Luther was summoned to the Diet in order to renounce or reaffirm his views in response to a papal bull of Pope Leo X. -
Period: 1527 to
Late Renaissance
The late Renaissance is characterized by artworks that typically took other works of art as models -
May 24, 1543
Death of Copernicus
On May 24, 1543, the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus dies in Frombork, Poland. Around the close of 1542, Copernicus was seized with apoplexy and paralysis, and he died at age 70. . He was the first modern European scientist to propose that the Earth and other planets revolve around the sun. -
1545
Council of Trent
The Council of Trent, held between 1545 and 1563 in Trent, was the 19th ecumenical council of the Catholic Church. Prompted by the Protestant Reformation, it has been described as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation -
Sep 25, 1555
The peace of Augsburg
The Peace of Augsburg (1555) temporarily eased the tensions arising from the Reformation, by allowing the legal co-existence of Protestants and Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire. Charles V abdicated the Spanish throne in 1556, and Philip II took over. -
1567
The end of the sale of indulgences
While reasserting the place of indulgences in the salvific process, the Council of Trent condemned “all base gain for securing indulgences” in 1563, and Pope Pius V abolished the sale of indulgences in 1567. -
Galileo builds enhanced refracting telescope
Galileo Galilei didn't invented the telescope but he was the first person to use to observe celestial objects and record his discoveries. Galileo make improvements in January 1610. Galileo use Refracting telescopes used lenses to bend, or refract, light. -
Blaise Pascal invents the adding machine
Pascaline, also called Arithmetic Machine, the first calculator or adding machine to be produced in any quantity and actually used. The Pascaline was designed and built by the French mathematician-philosopher Blaise Pascal between 1642 and 1644. -
Black death in central China
The pandemic originated in Asia and ravaged China and India before reaching the West. In China, the 13th-century Mongol conquest disrupted farming and trading, and led to widespread famine. The population dropped from approximately 120 to 60 million. -
Battle of civetot
The Battle of Civetot in 1096 brought an end to the People's Crusade, which was a poorly-armed movement of lower-class pilgrims of the First Crusade distinct from the subsequent and much more well-known Princes' Crusade.