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1418
Henry, king of Portugal, founded the Navigation school.
Prince Henry is also remembered for two important contributions to the fate of Portuguese exploration. -
1436
The invention of Gutenberg,s printing press
Is credited with inventing the printing press around 1436, although he was far from the first to automate the book-printing process. -
May 29, 1453
The fall of Constantinople
It was a historical event that put an end to the last vestige of the Eastern Roman Empire. -
Oct 12, 1492
The discovery of America
Consist of the arrival in America of an expedition from the Iberian Peninsula led by Christopher Columbus. -
Jul 2, 1494
Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas
Portugal, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between the Portuguese Empire and the Spanish Empire. -
Apr 2, 1513
Ponce de Leon discovers Florida
Was a Spanish explorer and conquistador, first ruler of Puerto Rico and discoverer of Florida. -
Oct 31, 1517
Martin Luther begins the Reformation in Wittenberg
The Protestant Reformation began in Wittenberg, in Germany. -
Oct 31, 1517
Martin Luther posts the 95 Theses
Legend has it that the priest and scholar Martin Luther approaches the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. -
1521
Cortes conquers Aztec Empire
Mesoamerica’s dominant power in the 15th and early 16th centuries controlled a capital city that was one of the largest in the world. -
Jan 3, 1521
Pope excommunicated Luther
Pope Leo X issues the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem, which excommunicates Martin Luther from the Catholic Church. -
1525
Henry VIII seeks to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon
Driven by lust, Henry sought to seek an annulment from his first wife Catherine -
Nov 15, 1533
Pizarro conquers Inca Empire
It is known as the conquest of Peru or transitional period to the historical process developed in the sixteenth century that begins with the fall of the Inca Empire. -
1534
Parliament approves the formation of the English Church (Act of Supremacy
In 1534 Parliament passed the Act of Supremacy which defined the right of Henry VIII to be supreme head on earth of the Church of England -
1534
Ignatius Loyola founds the Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
The Jesuit movement was founded by Ignatius de Loyola, a Spanish soldier turned priest, in August 1534. -
1536
English king, Henry VIII starts the Church of England
Henry had broken with Rome, seized assets of the Catholic Church in England and Wales and declared the Church of England as the established church with himself as its head. -
1536
John Calvin publishes the Institutes of the Christian Religion
Regarded as one of the most influential works of Protestant theology, it was published in Latin in 1536. -
1536
Pope Paul III begins the Council of Trent
In May 1536 Pope Paul published a bull of convocation for his proposed council to be held in Mantua. -
1540
Coronado discovers Arizona, Texas, Kansas and New Mexico
Which was reported to be in a land of seven cities of gold, he arrived at Cibola and found no gold. -
1545
Council of Trento mandates reforms in Catholic Church
It served to define Catholic doctrine and made sweeping decrees on self-reform. -
Sep 25, 1555
Peace of Augsburg recognizes the Lutheran Church
Peace of Augsburg, first permanent legal basis for the coexistence of Lutheranism and Catholicism in Germany. -
Thomas Newcomen
Thomas Newcomen was a British blacksmith, entrepreneur and inventor. He was born in Dartmouth, Devon, England into a merchant family and was baptised in St Saviour's Church on 28 February 1664. -
Seven Years´War
The Seven Years' War was a series of international conflicts between early 1756 and late 1763 to establish control over Silesia and for colonial supremacy in North America and India. -
James Hargreaves
James Hargreaves was an English weaver, carpenter and inventor, famous for creating the Jenny spinning machine. In 1763. Along with Richard Arkwright, Hargreaves is one of the best known men of the Industrial Revolution in Britain, although little is known about him. -
James Watt
James Watt was a Scottish mechanical engineer, inventor and chemist. His improvements to Newcomen's engine led to the so-called steam engine, which would prove pivotal in the development of the first Industrial Revolution, both in the UK and around the world. -
Abraham Darby
Abraham Darby was the first and best known of three generations of the same name, from a family of English Quakers, who played a leading role in the industrial revolution. -
Boston Tea Party
The Tea Mutiny took place on 16 December 1773 in Boston, Massachusetts, in which three cargoes of tea were thrown into the sea. A group of colonists disguised as Amerindians threw the tea cargoes of three British ships into the sea. -
First Continental Congress
The First Continental Congress was a body of representatives elected by the legislative bodies of the American colonies of the United Kingdom of Great Britain in 1774, except Georgia. -
Battle of Concord and Lexington
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first engagements of the American War of Independence. They took place on 19 April 1775 in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, in the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Arlington and Cambridge. -
Second Continental Congress
The Second Continental Congress is the name given to the convention of delegates from the Thirteen American Colonies, which began meeting on 10 May 1775, shortly after the outbreak of the American War of Independence against Great Britain. -
USA Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence of the United States is a document drafted by the Second Continental Congress that proclaimed that the Thirteen American Colonies. -
George Washington crosses the Delaware
George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River was an event that took place on the night of 25-26 December 1776, during the American War of Independence. -
Saratoga Battle
The Battle of Saratoga was one of the most important battles fought during the course of the American Revolutionary War. -
French Treaty of Alliance
This treaty of Alliance formalized France's financial and military support of the revolutionary government in America. -
Samuel Crompton
Samuel Crompton was an English inventor, known for devising the first truly practical spinning machine, called the "spinning mule". -
British surrendered in Yorktown
The Battle of Yorktown took place during the American War of Independence between 26 September and 19 October 1781. -
Edmund Cratwright
Edward Cartwright was an English clergyman and inventor who created the first power loom. -
Henry Cort
Henry Cort was an English entrepreneur and metallurgical inventor. During the Industrial Revolution in England, Cort began refining iron and converting it from pig iron into wrought iron using innovative production systems. -
Louis XVI calls the Estates General
The political and financial situation in France had grown rather bleak, forcing Louis XVI to summon the Estates General. -
The French revolution
The French Revolution was a period of radical political and societal change in France. -
Tennis Court Oath
The Oath of the Ball Game was a pledge of union made on 20 June 1789 by the 577 deputies of the third estate not to secede until France had a constitution. -
Storming of the Bastille
The storming of the Bastille took place in Paris on Tuesday 14 July 1789. Despite the fact that the medieval fortress known as the Bastille held only seven prisoners -
Louis XVI amd Marie Antoinette captured at Varennes
The Flight to Varennes, or the royal family's unsuccessful escape from Paris during the night of June 20-21, 1791, undermined the credibility of the king as a constitutional monarch and eventually led to the escalation of the crisis and the execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. -
Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney was an American inventor and manufacturer. -
Execution of Louis XVI
The execution of Louis XVI on Monday 21 January 1793 was one of the most important events of the French Revolution. -
Nicolas Appert
Nicolas-François Appert was a French master confectioner and cook who invented the method of airtight food preservation. He founded the first commercial canning factory in the world. -
Coup d´etat of Brumaire (1799, Nov 9)
The coup d'état of the 18th of Brumaire in France in the 18th century refers to the coup d'état on that date in the French Republican calendar, corresponding to 9 November 1799 in the Gregorian calendar. -
Richard Trevithick
Richard Trevithick was an English inventor and engineer and machine builder, who developed the first steam locomotive capable of running on a steam engine. -
Napoleon crowned as emperor
Napoleon was crowned Emperor of the French on Sunday, December 2, 1804, at Notre Dame de Paris in Paris. It marked "the instantiation of the modern empire" and was a "transparently masterminded piece of modern propaganda”. -
Victory of Austerlitz
The Battle of Austerlitz, also known as the Battle of the Three Emperors, pitted a French army led by Emperor Napoleon I against the forces of the French army on 2 December 1805. -
R. Fulton
Robert Fulton was an American engineer, entrepreneur and inventor, best known for developing the first steamboat, which became a commercial success, and for pioneering the development of the first submarines in the 1800s. -
Beginning of the Spanish War of Independence
The War of Independence was a war that took place between 1808 and 1814 in the context of the Napoleonic Wars, which pitted Spain's allied powers against each other. -
Battle of Bailen
The Battle of Baileen was fought during the Spanish War of Independence and was the first open field defeat in the history of the Napoleonic army. It took place on 19 July 1808 near the town of Bailén in Jaén. -
Luddite rebellion in Great Britain
Luddism was a movement led by English craftsmen in the 19th century, who protested between 1811 and 1816 against the new machines that were destroying employment. -
Battle of the Nations
The battle of Leipzig, also called the Battle of the Nations, was the largest armed engagement of all the Napoleonic Wars and the most important battle lost by Napoleon Bonaparte. -
Exile of Napoleon in Elba
On April 11, 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France and one of the greatest military leaders in history, abdicates the throne, and, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau, is banished to the Mediterranean island of Elba. -
Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was a battle that took place on 18 June 1815 near Waterloo, a town in present-day Belgium about twenty kilometres south of Brussels. -
Napoleon´s death at St. Helena
Napoleon arrived in St Helena on 15th October 1815, after ten weeks at sea on board the HMS. -
George Stephenson
George Stephenson was a British mechanical and civil engineer who built the world's first public railway line using steam locomotives and the first passenger railway line using steam locomotives. -
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday was a British scientist who studied electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis. -
John Deere
John Deere was an American manufacturer who founded Deere & Company, one of the world's leading brands of construction and agricultural equipment. -
Samuel MOrse
Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an American inventor and painter who, together with his associate Alfred Vail, invented and installed a telegraphy system in the United States, the first of its kind. -
Antonio Meucci
Antonio Santi Giuseppe Meucci, an Italian inventor and engineer who immigrated to the United States, was the creator of the "teletrophone", later christened "telephone", among other technical innovations. -
Henry Bessemer
Sir Henry Bessemer was a British inventor of French descent, whose steelmaking process was to become the most important technique for producing steel in the 19th century and was used for almost 100 years. -
First subway of the world in London
The London Underground first opened as an underground railway in 1863 and its first electrified underground line opened in 1890, making it the world's oldest metro system. -
Charles Tellier
Louis Abel Charles Tellier was a French engineer who built the first industrial refrigeration machine in 1858. -
Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone that had been invented by Antonio Meucci
La invención del teléfono fue la culminación del trabajo realizado por más de una persona, y dio lugar a una serie de pleitos relacionados con las reivindicaciones de patentes de varias personas y numerosas empresas. -
Thomas Alba Edison
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor, scientist and entrepreneur who developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording and motion pictures. -
Karl Benz
Karl Friedrich Benz, better known as Karl Benz or Carl Benz, was a German engineer and inventor, best known for creating the Benz Patent-Motorwagen in 1886 with his wife, which was considered to be the first vehicle in history designed to be powered by an internal combustion engine. -
Wright Brothers
The Wright brothers, Wilbur and Orville, were two aviators, engineers, inventors and pioneers of aviation, generally named together.