Renaissance, Reformation, Age of Discovery

Jesus started the Christian religion

100

This was important because it was the start of Christianity, which would lead to many other religions in due time.

Paper was invented by the Chinese

105

This was important because people could now record important things in an easier manner.

Jon Huss was burned at the stake for being a Heretic

Jul 6, 1415

This was important because it shows that the Church would do anything to rid their believers of any other ideas other than thier own.

Gutenberg invented the printing press

Jun 1, 1450

This was important because it increased literacy rates

Christopher Columbus was sponsored by Queen Isabella to sail westward to Asia

Aug 3, 1492

This was important because it was announced that the new world had been found, and it was in the name of Spain.

Leonardo DaVinci paints The Last Supper

Jun 1, 1498

This was important because it introduced perspective art.

Michelangelo sculpted the pieta

Jun 1, 1499

This was important because it depicts a basic idea of the idea centered around the Reninssance.

Martin Luther nailed the 95 theses to a church door

Oct 31, 1517

He did this to point out everything wrong with the Cathloic church.

Ferdinand Magellan's crew was the first to circumnavigate the globe

Jun 1, 1519

This was important because they now has a basic idea how big the world was.

Hernando Cortez and his forces overthrew the Aztec Empire

Aug 13, 1521

This was important because the Spanish gained control of northern Mexico.

John Calvin developed the idea of predestionation

Jun 1, 1533

This was important because it opened up peoples minds that maybe the church wasn't right about everything.

Jacques Cartier explored the St. Lawrence river to Montreal for France

Jan 1, 1534

This was important because now france had gotten into the fight for land in the new world.

Henry VIII broke from the Church in Rome and divorced his wife

Jun 1, 1534

This was important because this was the start of the Anglican church.

The jesuits were created during the Cathloic Reformation

Aug 1, 1534

This was important because they spread the Cathloic doctorine around the world.

Followers of the Cathloic church met at the Council of Trent

Dec 13, 1545

This was important because it started the Cathloic reformation, in a way.

Queen Elizabeth I became head of the Anglican church

Jun 1, 1558

This was important because The Anglican church remained Protestant.

Queen Elizabeth I defeated the Spanish Armada

Jun 1, 1588

This was important because it brought about the decline of Spanish power in Europe.

Henry IV issued the Edict of Nantes

Apr 13, 1598

This was important because it brought religous safety to the hugehnots in France.

Tobacco was shipped along the columbian exchange of the Middle Passage

Jun 1, 1619

This was important because it greatly changed Europeans lifestyles.

Cardinal Richelieu got France involved int the Thirty Years' War

Oct 1, 1635

This was important because this war was a fight for power and wealth, not religion.