Renaissance, Reformation, and Age of Discovery

By qveenballer99
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    Paper was invented by China

  • Jun 16, 610

    Mohammad began the Islamic religion

  • Jul 6, 1415

    Jan Huss burned at the stake for being a heretic

  • Oct 17, 1440

    Gutenburg invented the printing press

  • Oct 12, 1492

    Christopher Columbus was sponsored by Queen Isabella to sail westward

  • Oct 17, 1495

    Leonardo Da Vinci painted the last supper

  • Nov 17, 1498

    Michelangelo sulpted the Pieta

  • Oct 31, 1517

    Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to a church door

  • Nov 8, 1519

    Hernando Cortez and his forces overthrew the Aztec Empire

  • Oct 1, 1533

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

  • Jan 6, 1534

    the jesuits were created during the catholic Reformation

  • Nov 17, 1534

    Jacques Cartier explored the st. Lawrence River to Montreal for France

  • Sep 2, 1545

    Jesuits met at the Council of Trent

  • Jan 18, 1558

    Elizabeth I became the head of the Anglican Church

  • Oct 17, 1578

    Sir Frances Drake crew was the first to circumnavigate the globe

  • Sir francis Drake defeated the spanish armada

  • King Henry IV issued the Edict of Nantes

  • Textiles was shipped along the Middle Passage of Triangular Trade

  • Cardinal Richelieu