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1415
Prince Henry the Navigator
he sponsor many exploratory sea voyages. In 1415, his ships reached the Canary Islands, which had already been claimed by Spain. -
1439
Johannes Gutenberg
Invented movable type printing press initiated nothing less than a revolution in print technology -
Period: 1457 to 1509
Henry Vll
The king of england -
1492
Christopher Columbus
discovers the new world -
1497
Vasco Da Gama
he was appointed to command an expedition equipped by the Portuguese government, whose intention was to find a maritime route to the East. -
1498
Da Vinci paint the Last Supper
paints men around a dinner table -
1499
Michelangelo makes the Pieta
a woman holding a man -
1504
Michelangelo makes the statue of David
A naked man -
1508
Da Vinci makes the Mona Lisa
a portrait of a woman -
1516
Erasmus
Erasmus came up with a heavily explained edition of the New Testament through, -
1517
The 95 theses
questions of indulgences in latin -
1518
Hernan Cortez
he set off to explore Mexico -
1519
Ferdinand Magellan
set out from Spain with a fleet of five ships to discover a western sea route to the Spice Islands. -
1532
Francisco Pizarro
Pizarro and his brothers conquered Peru -
Period: 1533 to 1564
Queen Elizabeth
takes the throne of England -
1534
Jaques Cartier
was sent by King Francis I to the New World in search of riches and a new route to Asia in 1534. His exploration of the St. Lawrence River allowed France to lay claim to lands that would become Canada. -
1567
Francis Drake
Drake made one of the first English slaving voyages as part of a fleet led by his cousin John Hawkins, bringing African slaves to work in the 'New World' -
Galileo
first telescope modeled after telescopes produced in other parts of Europe that could magnify objects three times. -
Johannes Kepler
discovered the first two laws of planetary motion in 1609 and the third law in 1618 -
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Thirty Years War
fighting for thirty years -
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Luis XIV
The reign of France’s Louis XIV, known as the Sun King, lasted for 72 years, longer than that of any other known European sovereign. -
Treaty of Westphalia
treaty that ended the Thirty Years War -
Thomas Hobbes
wrote the leviathan -
Isaac Newton
discovered the laws of motion -
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William and Mary
take the throne -
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Peter the Great
king of Prussia -
Montesquieu
he wrote the spirit of laws -
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Louis XVI
Louis XVI was the last king of France in the line of Bourbon monarchs preceding the French Revolution of 1789. He was executed for treason by guillotine in 1793 -
Napolean
battle at waterloo
