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Jul 6, 1415
John Huss was burned at the stake for being a dissenter of the Catholic Church
Wycliffe was burnt at the stake because he was a dissenter and he went against what the church thought. -
Oct 31, 1418
Prince Henry founded the school of navigation.
He was a portugese prince who sarted the school of navigation in 1418 along with an astronomical observatory. -
Oct 29, 1450
Gutenburg invinted the printing press.
The printing press was so important because without everything had to be done by hand. This made it possible to spread the word around town. -
Oct 31, 1492
Christopher Columbus first voyage was sponsored by Spain to sail west to reach Asia.
HE was the first Spaniard to sail to the New world and made a settlement near the Carribean. -
Nov 2, 1497
Vasco da Gama established trade with india for the Portuguese.
They traded spices with India. -
Oct 27, 1498
Leonardo Da Vinci painted the last supper.
Da Vinci started painting the last supper in 1495 and finished in 1498 -
Oct 27, 1509
Desiderius Erasmus wrote the Praise of Folly
the book is about how Erasmus wrote a letter to his riend Sir Thomas More. It was first printed in 1511. -
Oct 27, 1517
Martin Luther
The 95 these sparked the start of the protastant reformation. -
Oct 31, 1519
Hernan Cortes and his foreces conquered the Aztec Empire.
This was the most significant event in the Spanish Colinization of the Americas. -
Oct 29, 1521
Ferdinand Magellen becomes the first person to circumnavigate the world.
He was the first person the sail completly around the world, and he was Porugese. -
Oct 29, 1532
Francisco Pizarro conquered the Incas.
A bloody civil war took place for four years before Pizarro's victory. -
Oct 27, 1534
Henry VIII broke from the Catholic Church in Rome and divorced his wife.
He broke with the Church in order to marry someone else so they could produce a son in order for the son to rule after his death. -
Oct 31, 1534
Jaceques Cartier explored the St. Lawrence river and Montreal leading to the French Claim
He claimed Canada for france and he was the first European to travel inland into the americas. -
Nov 2, 1534
Henry v11 became head of the Anglican Church
He became head of the church in order for him to be able to divorce. -
Oct 27, 1543
Nicolaus Copernicus created the heliocentric theory.
It is the astromical model in which the Earth and other plantets revolved around the sun> -
Oct 31, 1543
The Ottomans conquered Constantinople and renamed it Istanbul.
in 1543 Constantinople was captured by the Ottomans and renamed Istanbul. -
Nov 2, 1543
Copericus used his telescope to prove the heliocentric theory
It is the theory in which the Earth and the plantes revolve around the sun. -
Nov 2, 1543
The Jesuits were created during the Catholic Reformation
The founder of the Jesuits, Ignatius Loyola. -
Nov 2, 1545
Calvin beliefs established the idea of predestination.
It was belived that you vould buy your way into heaven< by buying a piece of paper. -
Oct 31, 1563
Catholics ment at the council Trent.
Nobody else showed up to the Council so they just reaffirmed their own beliefs. -
Queen Elizabeth 1 defeated the spanish armada.
The defeat of the Spanish Armada was thought to be one of the greates victories of England. -
Johannes Kepler discovers planetary motion.
It was 3 scientific laws describing the motions of the planets around the sun. -
William Harvey studied the animals and anatomy to create an accurate theory of the heart and circulatory system.
e proved that the heart was a pump which forced the blood around the body through arteries and that the blood was returned to the heart through the veins. -
THe thirty years war was faught in germany.
The war was faught against the Catholic Church and Protestants. -
Cromwell Wins the English Civil war and executes Charles 1
Parliment and the king fought, which led to the kings execution and Cromwell being a Puritan Dictator. -
Louie XIV builds the Palace of Versiles
He made nobles move into the Palace with him in order to take their land that they had. -
Louis XIV revoked the edict of nantes.
It had granted the Huguenots the right to practive their religion without persicution -
William and Mary rule England after the glorious Revolution.
William and Mary were elected to rule after Cromwell was denoted from being their dictator. -
Johne Locke wrote the two treaties on governement.
the two treaties were about the concept of the right of revolution. -
Peter the Great Westernized Russia
Peter the Great went into englad disguised, in order to see all the advanced technology they had. IN order to take it back to russia. -
Montesquieu wrote the Spirit of the Laws
In the Spirit of the Laws, it talks about law, social life, and the study of anthropology and providing more than 3,000 commendations. -
Montesquiev writes the SPirit of the Laws.
He wrote the Spitit of the Laws about political theory. -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote the social contract.
Originating during the Age of Enlightenment, that addresses the questions of the origin of society and the loyalty of the state over the individual
