Ch.17 Reniessance and Reformation world history project

World History

Period: Jan 16, 1390 to Dec 15, 1770

Prince Henry of Portugal was born

Mar 4, 1394

Fourth son of John 1. He lead the expedition that captured Ceuta.

Yonglo becomes Ming Emperor

Jan 28, 1402

Yonglo became emperor after his father, Hongwu died in1398. He moved the Ming capital to beijing and built a city surrounded by high walls.

Zheng He captians his first voyage

Jul 11, 1405

Johan Gutenberg invents the Printing Press

Aug 16, 1439

Johan Gutenberg invented the Printing Press in 1439. It increased the literatcy rate. It also

Fall of Constantinople to the Turks

Apr 6, 1453

The fall of Constantinople to the Turks. Started F April 6, 1453 and ended May 29 1453. The fall marked the end of the Byzantine Empire that lasted 1,100 years.

The Hundred Years' War ends

Aug 9, 1453

The Hundred Years' War started in 1337 and ended in 1453. The war was fought on French soil and is believed to reduce france's population by half. The started for the control over the Kingdom of France.

B. Dias reaches Cape of Good Hope

Aug 27, 1488

He sailed around the southern most tip of Africa. He was the first to do this.

Ferdinand & Isabella end war with Muslims

Jan 2, 1492

The war was a joint project between Isabella's Crown of Castile and Ferdinand's Crown of Aragon. They surrendered the Emirate of Granada, the city of Granada, and the Alhambra palace to the Castilian forces.

C.Columbus spots land in North America

Oct 12, 1492

He sailed for the Spanish with the Nina, Pinta and the Santa Maria. He landed on an island that is now part of the Bahamas.

Spain & Portugal agree to Treaty of Tordesillas

Jun 7, 1494

Spain controlled the land found west of the imaginary line. Portugal controlled the land found east of the imaginary line. It was first defined by Pope Alexander VI.

Amerigo Vespucci charts New World coast

May 29, 1497

Vasco da Gama lands in India

May 20, 1498

He sailed around the southern tip of africa and made a sea route from Europe to Asia. He by passed the Muslim nations that controlled the overland spice trade.

Leonardo Da Vinci starts the Mona Lisa

Apr 19, 1503

Leonardo Da Vinci started painting the Mona Lisa. It is an oil painting and is believed to be the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. He continued to work on the painting through out his life.

Donatello creates his David Statue

Feb 12, 1504

Donatello created the David statue in 1504. The statue is the biblical hero David and is made out of marble. It was transford to Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence.

H. Cortez lands on Mexican coast

May 30, 1504

He led an expedition that led to the fall of the aztec empire

Michelangelo paints the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

Mar 9, 1508

Michelangelo started painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in 1508 and finished in 1512. Pope Julius the second requested Michelangelo to paint. The ceiling is 131 feet long and 43 feet wide.

Raphael paints School of Athens

Jun 21, 1509

Raphael painted the School of Athens in 1509. It is one of his famous pieces of artwork. It is now known as the Stanze di Raffaello, in the Apostalic Palace in the Vatican.

Machiavelli writes The Prince

Apr 18, 1513

Machiavelli starts writing The Prince. He started writing in 1513 but did not publish it until 1532, five years after his death.

Mary the 1st becomes Queen

Feb 18, 1516

She was oldest daughter of King Henry the 8th. During her rein she got the nickname "bloody mary".

Martin Luther posts his 95 Thesis

Oct 31, 1517

Martin Luther posted his 95 Thesis on the Wittenburg Church. This started the Protestant Reformation.

First slave revolts in Hispaniola

May 27, 1522

It was the first successful slave revolt. A much greater slave revolt happened acouple of years later.

F. Pizzaro meets Atahualpa

Nov 16, 1532

200 spamish conquistadores went against several 1,000 incans. The spaniards won and captured Atahualpa

Jacques Cartier claims land in Canada

Apr 20, 1534

He explored the west coast of New Foundland and discovered Prince Edward Island.

Anne Boleyn is executed

May 19, 1536

Wife of Henry the 8th is executed. This allows Henry to marry June Seymore.

Edward the 6th is born

Oct 12, 1537

Edward is the only son of Henry the 8th. He solidfied the Anglican Church.

Ignatius of Loyola founds the Jesuit order

Apr 19, 1541

Starts order of Preists. Reforces church of Education

Elizabeth 1 becomes queen

Nov 17, 1558

Only Anglican Daughter of Henry becomes ruler. Start of Elizabeth age.

william of orange/ the dutch revolt

Mar 4, 1566

He played a key role in the dutch revolt. He took military and political control of the rebellion.

Philip the second inherited spain

Mar 4, 1580

Philip was the only heir of the king of portugal.

Prince henry IV

Mar 5, 1589

He inherited the throne after his mother and her last son died. He became Henry IV th efirst king of the Bourbon dynasty in France.Many cathilics opposed Henry.

Dutch East India Company id founded

Mar 20, 1602

It is a 21 year monopoly that carried out trade activities in Asia. It was granted by the States General of the Netherlands.

Don Quixote

Mar 4, 1605

it is often called the birth of the modern european novel. the book was written by Miguel de cervantes and he wrote about a poor spanish nobleman.

Henry Hudson is last seen

Apr 27, 1611

He went adrift in a small boat with his son and several loyal crewmen. He wanted to search for an outlet from James Bay.

William Shakespeare dies

Apr 23, 1616

William Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616. It is a mystery on how he died but historians predict that he died from a fever called "new fever" that was discovered the year he died.

Ferdinand II

Mar 5, 1618

He was head of the Hapsburg Family. He ruled the Czech kingdom. The Protestants in Bohemia did not trust him.

New Netherlands becomes New York

Jul 29, 1626

Peter Miniut bought Manhattan from the native americans. He estabilshed New Amsterdam and it later became known as New York City.

Galileo publishes his many findings in Dialogue Concerning the two chief world systems

Mar 26, 1632

Galileo compared the Copernican system with the traditional Ptolemaic system. The book was abest seller and was translated into Latin in 1635.

Rene Descartes lays out his scientific method in Discourse on Method

Mar 31, 1637

The book is influential on modern philosophy and the evolution of natural science. Descartes brings up the problem of skepticism and he started his line of reasoning by doubting everything.

Louis XIV

Mar 5, 1643

He was the most powerful ruler in french history.He was only five years old when he became king.

Thomas hobbes outlines the social contract in Leviathan

Mar 31, 1651

Hobbes said that lives of individuals in the state of nature was poor, nasty, brutal and short. The state system grew out of the social contract and was anarchic and was now in competition with each other.

Britain passes the Navigation Acts

Apr 28, 1651

The navigation acts restricted foriegn ships being used for trade between the colonies and Bratain. These acts minimized the loss of gold and silver to foreigners.

La Salle claim Mississippi River for Spain

Apr 9, 1682

He claimed the valley fo rthe French King, Louis XIV. He named the area Louisiana in his honor.

Isaac Newton published his laws of gravity in Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

Jul 5, 1687

Isaac wrote three books about his laws of gravity. He corrected his first personal copy and then published the next two.

John Locke justifies rebellion in Two Treatieses on Government

Mar 27, 1690

John Locke first published the "Two Treatises on Government" anonymously. The first reaty is about patriarchalism and the second one is about Locke's ideas for a more civilized society based on natural rights.

Gabriel Fahrenheit makes the first mercury-in-glass thermometer

May 24, 1714

Gabriel Fahrenheit was a physicist and a glass blower. He also invented the fahrenheit temperature scale.

Maria Theresa

Mar 5, 1730

Charles VI had other leaders of Europe sign an agreement that declared they would recognize Maria Theresa as the heir to all his Hapsburg territories. She faced many years of war. Her main enemy was Prussia.

Fredrick the Great

Mar 5, 1730

He followed his father's military policies but he also softened some of his father's laws. Him and his friend tried running away but got caught his father punished him by making him watch his friends beheading. He was known as Fredrick the Great since then.

Fredrick the Great begins his reign in Prussia.

Jan 24, 1740

Fredrick the Great had no children during his lifetime. He also reined during the seven years war.

Denis Diderot publishes the first colume of his Encyclopedia

Mar 31, 1751

In 1752 the project was suspended by the courts. Accusations were brought up about the entries on religion and natural law.

Seven Years' War begins

Jun 30, 1753

Also known as the French and Indian War. It started over french's expansion over the Ohio river.

Cesare Baccaria writes against torture in On Crimes and Punishment

Mar 30, 1764

This marked the high point of the Milan Enlightenmnet. Baron put arguments against the death penalty in it.

Boston Tea Party

Dec 16, 1773

Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty got on three ships in the boston harbor and threw 342 chests of tea into the harbor. Some of the men were dressed as Native Americans.

Catherine the Great puts down the serf Rebellion

Mar 31, 1774

Catherine gave the serfs the right to file complaints about nobles if they did not hold up their side of the deal. She did this because they would no longer be able to come to her directly and she did not was to be bothered by the "peasantry".

Joseph Priestley separates oxygen from the air

Aug 1, 1774

Joseph Priestley found oxygen by heating red mercuric oxide and had a colourless gas left behind. He called it “dephlogisticated air”.

Declaration of Independence is signed

Jul 4, 1776

This document stated that the thirteen colonies were not part of Britian anymore an were their own independent states. Thomas Jefferson wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence.

Joseph II abolishes serfdom in Austria

Nov 1, 1781

This allowed serfs to get married without being stopped because of previous aquiasitions of a certificate. This also allowed serfs to learn any trade , handicraft, ect.