Reformationandrenaissance

Renaissance, Reformation, Age of Discovery

By Dre_1800
  • Oct 17, 613

    Mohammad

    Mohammad
    Mohammad began the Islamic religion, after he spread it through areas where Islam was important.
  • Apr 19, 1415

    Jan Huss

    Jan Huss
    Burned at the stake for being a heretic, and spreading his views on religion.
  • Sep 17, 1440

    Slaves

    Slaves
    Slaves were shipped along the middle passage to be forced to work on land.
  • Jun 16, 1450

    Gutenberg

    Gutenberg
    Invented the printing press, which increased literacy rates.
  • Oct 16, 1493

    Christopher Columbus

    Christopher Columbus
    Was sponsored by Queen Isabella to sail westward to reach Asia, but instead found the America
  • Aug 12, 1498

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Gave religous perspective through a Painting
  • Oct 9, 1498

    King Henry The 8th

    King Henry The 8th
    King Henry the 8th, broke from church in Rome because the pope would not grant him a divorce,
  • Nov 16, 1498

    Michelangelo

    Michelangelo
    Michelangelo made the Pieta because he wanted to give his religous perspective
  • Oct 31, 1517

    Martin Luther

    Martin Luther
    Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to a church in Rome because he was attacking the Catholic Church’s corrupt practice of selling “indulgences."
  • Sep 12, 1522

    Ferdinand Mugellan

    Ferdinand Mugellan
    1st to circumnavigate the globe, also the 1st person to cross the Pacific ocean.
  • Oct 17, 1538

    Richelieu

    Richelieu
    Got France involved in the Thirty years war by capturing the holdings of the Hueguenots .
  • Oct 17, 1540

    Cartier

    Cartier
    Jaques Cartier explored the St. Lawrence River to Montreal for France which led to France laying claim to Canada.
  • Jul 5, 1548

    Cortesz

    Cortesz
    Cortes and his forces overthrew the Aztec Empire to gain control over the Northern part of Mexico.
  • Sep 11, 1550

    John Calvin

    John Calvin
    John Calvin developed the idea of predestination, because Calvin believed that your fate was determined before you were born.
  • Nov 4, 1558

    Elizabeth The !st

    Elizabeth The !st
    Became head of the Anglican church, since she was Queen and decided to lead the church.
  • Jun 15, 1562

    Henry the IV

    Henry the IV
    Henry the IV issued the Edict of Nantes which protected the Huguenots.
  • Aug 27, 1566

    Council of Trent

    Council of Trent
    Leaders of bthe Catholic church met at the Council of Trent in order to do their religous practices.

  • Sir Francis Drake

    Sir Francis Drake
    Sir Francis Drake defeated the Spanish Armada

  • The Counter Reformation

    The Counter Reformation
    were created during the Italian Renaissance since ideas were coming back to the Countries, City -states

  • China

    China
    paper was invented in China, in order to document there ideas.