Grace Middleton's Western Civ Timeline

By GraceMiddleton3
  • Dec 1, 1066

    William the Conqueror invades England

  • Dec 1, 1215

    Signing of the Magna Carta

  • Dec 1, 1342

    Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales

  • Dec 1, 1394

    Prince Henry the Navigator

  • Dec 1, 1413

    Beginning of Henry V’s reign (England)

  • Dec 1, 1422

    End of Henry V’s reign (England)

  • Dec 1, 1431

    Execution of Joan of Arc

  • Dec 1, 1451

    Treaty of Lodi

  • Dec 1, 1453

    End of the Hundred Years’ War

  • Dec 1, 1462

    Beginning of Ivan III’s (Ivan the Great) reign (Russia)

  • Dec 1, 1484

    Battle of Bosworth

  • Dec 1, 1485

    Beginning of Henry VII’s reign (England)

  • Dec 1, 1488

    Bartholomew Dias sails around Cape of Good Hope

  • Dec 1, 1492

    Columbus sails for Asia and finds Bahamas

  • Dec 1, 1492

    Reconquista finished

  • Dec 1, 1494

    King Charles VIII of France invades Italy

  • Dec 1, 1498

    Execution of Savonarola

  • Dec 1, 1498

    Vasco da Gama reaches coast of India

  • Dec 1, 1503

    Leonardo’s Mona Lisa

  • Dec 1, 1504

    Michelangelo’s David

  • Dec 1, 1505

    End of Ivan III’s (Ivan the Great) reign (Russia)

  • Dec 1, 1509

    End of Henry VII’s reign (England)

  • Dec 1, 1509

    Erasmus’ In Praise of Folly

  • Dec 1, 1513

    Ponce de Leon first reaches Florida

  • Dec 1, 1517

    Luther’s 95 Theses

  • Dec 1, 1519

    Ferdinand Magellan sets out to circumnavigate the globe

  • Dec 1, 1519

    Hernan Cortes lands on the coast of Mexico

  • Dec 1, 1521

    Luther appears before the Diet of Worms

  • Dec 1, 1522

    Ignatius Loyola begins The Spiritual Exercises

  • Dec 1, 1532

    Machiavelli’s The Prince

  • Dec 1, 1533

    Beginning of Ivan IV’s (Ivan the Terrible) reign (Russia)

  • Dec 1, 1535

    Execution of Sir Thomas More

  • Dec 1, 1536

    Calvin publishes first edition of his Institutes

  • Dec 1, 1543

    Copernicus publishes his Concerning the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres

  • Dec 1, 1543

    Fall of Constantinople

  • Dec 1, 1547

    End of Henry VIII’s reign (England)

  • Dec 1, 1547

    End of Ivan IV’s (Ivan the Terrible) reign (Russia)

  • Dec 1, 1547

    Beginning of Edward VI’s reign

  • Dec 1, 1553

    End of Edward VI’s reign

  • Dec 1, 1553

    Beginning of Mary I’s reign (England)

  • Dec 1, 1555

    Peace of Augsburg

  • Dec 1, 1558

    End of Mary I’s reign (England)

  • Dec 1, 1558

    Beginning of Elizabeth I’s reign (England)

  • Dec 1, 1559

    Henry VIII issues the Act of Supremacy

  • Dec 1, 1572

    St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre (French Wars of Religion)

  • Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots

  • Defeat of the Spanish Armada

  • Shakespeare’s Hamlet performed for the first time

  • Edict of Nantes

  • Henry IV of France converts to Catholicism

  • End of Elizabeth I’s reign (England)

  • Beginning of James I’s reign (England)

  • Founding of the settlement at Jamestown

  • Galileo begins astronomical observations with his telescope

  • Beginning of Louis XIII’s reign (France)

  • Harvey announces his discovery of the circulatory system

  • Beginning of the 30 Years’ War

  • Battle of White Mountain

  • Founding of the Plymouth settlement

  • End of James I’s reign (England)

  • Beginning of Charles I’s reign (England)

  • Edict of Restitution

  • Beginning of the English Revolution (Civil War)

  • End of Louis XIII’s reign (France)

  • Beginning of Louis XIV’s reign (France)

  • End of the 30 Years’ War

  • Peace of Westphalia

  • End of Charles I’s reign (England)

  • Beginning of the Fronde in Paris

  • Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan

  • Beginning of the Protectorate in England

  • End of the Protectorate in England

  • Beginning of Charles II’s reign (England)

  • Trial of Galileo

  • Beginning of Peter the Great’s reign (Russia)

  • End of Charles II’s reign (England)

  • Beginning of James II’s reign (England)

  • Revocation of the Edict of Nantes

  • End of James II’s reign (England)

  • Glorious Revolution (ascendency of William & Mary in England)

  • John Locke’s Two Treatises on Government

  • Treaty of Utrecht

  • End of Louis XIV’s reign (France)

  • End of Peter the Great’s reign (Russia)

  • Beginning of Frederick II’s (Frederick the Great) reign (Prussia)

  • First volume of Diderot’s Encyclopedia

  • Beginning of the Seven Years’ War

  • Beginning Catherine the Great’s reign (Russia)

  • Stamp Act (American Colonies)

  • Napoleon’s rise to power

  • Beginning of Louis XVI’s reign (France)

  • Declaration of Independence

  • End of Frederick II’s (Frederick the Great) reign (Prussia)

  • Storming of the Bastille

  • Tennis Court Oath

  • End of Louis XVI’s reign (France)

  • Execution of Marie Antoinette

  • End of Catherine the Great’s reign (Russia)

  • Napoleon invades Russia

  • Battle of Waterloo