Renaissance, reformation, and age of exploration.

By rsanford
  • Jul 6, 1415

    Jan Hus is burned at the stake in Rome.

  • May 29, 1453

    The Ottomans take Constantinople.

  • Sep 1, 1455

    Johannes Gutenberg invents the Printing Press.

  • Sep 18, 1487

    Bartholomew Dias sails around the southern tip of Africa.

  • Sep 18, 1492

    Christopher Columbus lands in the Carribean; genocide ensues.

  • Jun 7, 1494

    The Treaty of Tordesillas grants new land to Spain and Portugal.

  • Period: Sep 18, 1497 to Sep 18, 1499

    Vasco de Gama finds a water route to India.

  • Period: Sep 18, 1503 to Sep 18, 1517

    Leonardo Da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa.

  • Period: Sep 18, 1508 to Sep 18, 1512

    Michelangelo paints the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

  • Period: Sep 19, 1513 to Sep 19, 1521

    Papacy of Leo X.

  • Sep 19, 1517

    Martin Luther posts the 95 Thesis.

  • Sep 19, 1519

    Cortez lands in modern-day Mexico and conquers the Aztecs.

  • Period: Sep 19, 1519 to Sep 19, 1522

    Ferdinand Megellan circumnavigates the globe.

  • Sep 19, 1521

    The Diet (assembly) of Worms in Germany adresses the effects of Protestant Reformation.

  • Sep 19, 1524

    Peasants revolt throughout Germany.

  • Sep 19, 1534

    Henry VIII declares himself head of the English Church.

  • Sep 19, 1536

    John Calvin establishes a Theocracy in Geneva.

  • Sep 19, 1564

    William Shakespeare is born.

  • English Queen Elizabeth defeats the Spanish Armada.

  • Galileo Galilei invents the telescope and disproves the Ptolemaic Model of the universe.