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1598 BCE
Edict of Nantes
After Henry converted and became Catholic he was honored with the new title as their king his new name was now Henry Edict of Nantes and he granted religious freedom to Protestants. And his conversion led to political stabitliy. -
1572 BCE
St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
This was a big and Huge Massacre that occurred in France. Catholic mobs were hunting down Protestants and eded up killing them, this lasted for 6 months. Calvins followers the Huguenots were killed and fought against Catholics and the fight ended up ending when later their leader became Catholic this led him to becoming their King for converting and this granted religious freedom to Protestants. -
1560 BCE
Scotland Becomes Calvinist
As Calvinism began to spread a Scottish Preacher John Knox spread the word of Calvin's idea, he soon began to gain followers called "presbyterians" and soon Prostant nobles who were led by Knox names Calvinsim Scotland's official religion in the 1560's. -
1555 BCE
Peace of Augsburg
Well known religious settlement prince's agreed to let each ruler decide the religion for his state. -
1545 BCE
Council of Trent
The Pope at the time called a council of church leaders to meet in Trent which is in Northern Italy. They all decided to agree on many doctrines. There were many that were agreed on such as this one. " Indulgences were valid expressions of faith, but the selling of indulgences were banned." -
1542 BCE
Start of Roman Inquisition
Cruel torture methods were used on anyone who didn't agree with the churches teachings.The main idea was to convert Jews, Muslims and protestants to join the Catholic Church. Anyone who didn't were punished because of Dinial of the churches teachings. -
1540 BCE
Jesuit order founded
Paul III Approved the Jesuits order. This order was started by Ignatious who was injured in war and and who started to believe in cleansing his soul and thinking about Jesus's life. he wrote a book "Spiritual Exercises" that contained meditation, prayer, and study. He gained a following and then created an order for his followers called the Society of Jesus. -
1536 BCE
John Calvins Institute of the Christian Religion
Grew up with influence in the spread of protestantism published Institutes of the Christian Religion a book about his ideas of god stating men and women are sinful by nature this was based off of Calvin's teachings called Calvinism. -
1534 BCE
Act of Supremacy In England
Parliament supported and Aproved the act of Supremacy which would accept Henry as the head of England's church not Pope. -
1524 BCE
Peasant’s War
In Germany there was the Peasant's War. This started because the Peasents were enraged because of the growing population that was effecting their taxes that they weren't being able to pay and the lack of power that they had. Their response to this was rebelling and storming castles and Monasteries. -
1517 BCE
Martin Luther Writes 95 Theses
Martin Luther was bothered by practice of granting sinners indulgences and criticized the people of the church in a letter known as The 95 Theses -
1494 BCE
Italian Wars
The war started because France invaded Italy. France and wanted control over the Italian Penisula. Popes and England also got involved. When the war ended one of the biggest impacts was Italian artist bleeding north and sharing their techneques and styled with them. -
1543
Nicolaus Copernicus publishes "on the revolutions of heavenly bodies"
Major achievements were that he came invented the heliocentric theory. And he believed that the earth annually turns once daily on its axis -
1559
Reign of Elizabeth I
Elizabeth helped set up The Church of England or Anglican Church, which she was the head of. She set up a state church in hope that it would moderate Catholics -
Galileo Galilei publishes "the starry messenger"
Galileo's major idea he used a telescope to observe deatails. he also changed peoples opinions on laws of motion. -
Francis Bacon publishes "novum organum"
One of his major contributions was the start of the scientific revolution. He also discovered and popularized the scientific method. -
Rene Descartes publishes "Discourse on the method for guiding one's reason and searching for the truth in the sciences."
Descartes developed analytical geometry which linked alegraba and geometry which provided a new tool for research. He also created deductive reasoning for ideas. He is also coinsidered the farther of modern philosophy. -
Thomas Hobbes publishes "Leviation"
His major ideas was he wanted an absolute monarchy to enforce law. he also believed that all men were evil by nature. -
John Locke publishes, "The 2 treaties of government."
Locke's major idea was favoring the idea of self government. And his other idea was that the purpose of the government is to protect human rights such as, life, liberty and property and education should be taught for society's important values. -
Voltaire publishes " Letters philosophiques"
His major contribution consists of fighting for freedom of religious belief and freedom of speech -
Baron de Montesquieu publishes "On the spirit of laws."
Montesquieu was responsible for dividing power amoung different branches of government. This was called the sseperation of powers. This idea would also overcome the issue of any idvisuals, or groups from gaining total control of the government. A big idea and belief he had was that Britain was the best governed and most politically balanced country of his day. -
John Jacques Rousseau publishes "The social contract"
His major ideas were that he argued civilization corrupted peoples natural goodness. and he believed that only good government was that of direct democracy.