Period I

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  • Jan 1, 1405

    Christine de Pisan's City of Ladies

  • Jan 1, 1440

    Printing Press

  • Jan 1, 1450

    Guttenberg prints Bible

  • Jan 1, 1450

    Medici Banking Family

    1450s
  • Period: Jan 1, 1455 to Jan 1, 1485

    War of the Roses

  • Jan 1, 1486

    Pico's Oration on the Dignity of Man

  • Jan 1, 1492

    Columbian Exchange

  • Jul 2, 1494

    Treaty of Tordesillas

    (Ratified in Spain)
  • Period: Jan 1, 1500 to

    Mercantilism

  • Jan 1, 1509

    Raphael's School of Athens

  • Jan 1, 1511

    Erasmus's Praise of Folly

  • Jan 1, 1516

    More's Utopia

  • Oct 31, 1517

    Luther's 95 Theses

  • Jan 1, 1518

    Atlantic Slave Trade begins

  • Jan 1, 1519

    Charles V becomes HRE emperor

  • Jan 1, 1525

    German Peasants War

  • Jan 1, 1525

    Anabaptist movement

  • May 6, 1527

    Sack of Rome

    ends Italian Renaissance
  • Jan 1, 1532

    Machiavelli's The Prince

  • Jan 1, 1539

    Act of Supremacy

  • Jan 1, 1540

    Jesuits

  • Jan 1, 1542

    Roman Inquisition

  • Jan 1, 1543

    Copernicus's On The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

  • Period: Jan 1, 1545 to Jan 1, 1563

    Council of Trent

  • Sep 25, 1555

    Peace of Augsburg

  • Apr 23, 1564

    William Shakespeare is born

  • Aug 23, 1572

    St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

    Someone wrote this as happening in 1646 for some reason?

  • Dutch Golden Age

    post 1588

  • Edict of Nantes

  • English Civil War

  • Period: to

    French Wars of Religion

  • Galileo's Dialogue of the Two Chief World Systems

  • Oliver Cromwell declared Lord Protector

  • Glorious Revolution

  • Locke's Two Treatises of Government