Modern World Timeline

By BoDongDong
  • 1347

    Black Death hits Europe

    The Black Death was a huge plague that struck Europe and is significant because it killed 1/3 of the population.
  • 1440

    Printing Press

    Was the first huge social media in all of existence and sparked and era and was the creation of the millenium.
  • 1485

    Leo Da Vinci Invents Flying Machines

    Really changed the way people thought about traveling in the air and if it could be perfected and made useful.
  • 1492

    Columbus Sails the Ocean Blue

    Discovered America and made people realise that the Earth wasn't flat and that something was there.
  • 1502

    Young Hare

    Really sparked the idea that animals and nature could be a worthy topic and a beutiful topic whn it came to painting.
  • 1517

    Luther's 95 Theses

    Sparked the ideas of thinking up and disagreeing with the church making his ideas spark and age of indepence in ones thinking.
  • 1541

    Last Judgement

    Was a huge part and motivater for christians at the time who had just came back from the sack of Rome and needed something to reassure them.

  • Romeo and Juliet

    Wass a major influence in the art if language and playwrites all around the world and is one f the most well known romance stories ever.

  • Galileo's Telescope

    Gave proof to why Aristotle's teachings were wrong about how everytrhing revolved around the Earth.

  • Law of Gravity

    This was a major event because it changed the way humans thought about the way the earths gravity works.