MEH

  • Period: Nov 22, 1440 to Nov 23, 1449

    Invention of the Printing Press

  • Nov 22, 1453

    Fall of Constantinople

  • Nov 22, 1492

    Ferdinand and Isabella complete the Reconquista

  • Period: Nov 22, 1492 to Nov 23, 1502

    Voyages of Christopher Columbus

  • Period: Nov 22, 1494 to Nov 23, 1559

    The Italian Wars (Hapsburg-Valois Wars)

  • Period: Dec 5, 1500 to

    Witch Trials

  • Period: Nov 22, 1508 to Nov 23, 1512

    Michelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel

  • Nov 22, 1513

    Machiavelli publishes The Prince

  • Nov 22, 1517

    Martin Luther’s 95 Theses

  • Period: Nov 22, 1525 to

    Price Revolution

  • Nov 22, 1532

    African slave trade begins

  • Nov 22, 1534

    Act of Supremacy

  • Dec 5, 1543

    Nicolaus Copernicus publishes On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

  • Period: Nov 22, 1545 to Nov 23, 1563

    Council of Trent

  • Nov 22, 1555

    Peace of Augsburg

  • Spanish Armada

  • Edict of Nantes

  • Dutch East India Company established

  • Trial of Galileo

  • René Descartes publishes Discourse on Method

  • Period: to

    English Civil War

  • Period: to

    Reign of Louis XIV

  • Peace of Westphalia

  • Period: to

    Agricultural Revolution

  • French Royal Academy founded

  • Thomas Hobbes publishes The Leviathan

  • Period: to

    First British Navigation Acts

  • Edict of Nantes revoked

  • René Descartes publishes Discourse on Method

  • Period: to

    Glorious Revolution

  • John Locke publishes Second Treatise on Government

  • Period: to

    Growth of cottage industry

  • Peace of Utrecht

  • Montesquieu, Persian Letters

  • Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws

  • Period: to

    Diderot, Encyclopedia

  • Rousseau, The Social Contract; Emile

  • Treaty of Paris (Seven Years War)

  • Smith The Wealth of Nations

  • Period: to

    Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

  • Condorcet, The Progress of the Human Mind