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Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
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Jan 1, 1440
Invention of the Printing press
The printing press was invented in the Holy Roman Empire by the German Johannes Gutenberg around 1440, based on existing screw presses. Gutenberg, a goldsmith by profession, developed a complete printing system, which perfected the printing process through all its stages by adapting existing technologies to printing purposes, as well as making groundbreaking inventions of his own. -
Oct 31, 1517
Posting of 95 theses
protesting against the sale of indulgences. He enclosed in his letter a copy of his "Disputation of Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences," which came to be known as The Ninety-Five Theses. -
Jan 1, 1519
The completion of Mona Lisa
He is thought to have continued to work on Mona Lisa for three years after he moved to France and to have finished it shortly before he died in 1519. -
Jan 1, 1520
Age of Monarchs
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Jan 1, 1534
Luther's translation of the bible
The Luther Bible is a German Bible translation by Martin Luther, first printed with both testaments in 1534. This translation became a force in shaping the Modern High German language. The project absorbed Luther's later years. The new translation was very widely disseminated thanks to the printing press. -
Nov 18, 1545
Council of Trent
It convened in Trent (then capital of the Prince-Bishopric of Trent of the Holy Roman Empire, now in modern Italy) between December 13, 1545, and December 4, 1563 in twenty-five sessions for three periods. Council fathers met for the first through eighth sessions in Trent (1545–7), and for the ninth through eleventh sessions in Bologna (1547) during the pontificate of Pope Paul III. -
Jan 1, 1550
Heliocentric Theory
The Philosophy of the Scientific Revolution: Descartes and Bacon ... Copernicus
finished the description of his heliocentric theory -
Nov 8, 1550
Age of The Monarchs
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The Peak of the Renaissance Era
The peak of the Renaissance occurred towards the end of the 15th century, a time when numerous foreign invasions began in Italy. -
The Invention of the First Telescope
The earliest known working telescopes appeared in 1608 and are credited to Hans Lippershey -
30 years war
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King Louis XIV became king
He was 4 years old when he became the king of France.
Cardinal Mazarin ruled France. -
Newton's Laws of Gravity
Newton's law of universal gravitation states that every point mass in the universe attracts every other point mass with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. -
Invention of first steam engine
Savery built his machine to help pump water out of coal mines. This machine was so simple that it had no moving parts. It also used up lots and lots of coal just to pump a small quantity of water. -
The Reign of King Louis XV
Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774) ruled as King of France and of Navarre from 1 September 1715 until his death. After he succeeded to the throne at the age of five, his first cousin twice removed, Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, served as Regent of the kingdom until Louis's majority in 1723. -
French Revolution
The French Revolution (French: Révolution française; 1789–1799), sometimes distinguished as the 'Great French Revolution'[1] (La Grande Révolution), was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France and Europe. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years. French society underwent an epic transformation as feudal, aristocratic and religious privileges evaporated under a sustained assault from radical left-wing political groups, masses on the st -
The Reign of King Louis XVI
Louis XVI (23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793) was a Bourbon monarch who ruled as King of France and Navarre until 1791, and then as King of the French from 1791 to 1792. Suspended and arrested as part of the insurrection of 10 August during the French Revolution, he was tried by the National Convention, found guilty of high treason, and executed by guillotine on 21 January 1793 as a desacralized French citizen known as "Citoyen Louis Capet". He is the only King of France ever to be executed. -
Invention of first Cotton Gin
The first modern mechanical cotton gin was created by American inventor Eli Whitney in 1793 and patented in 1794. It used a combination of a wire screen and small wire hooks to pull the cotton through, while brushes continuously removed the loose cotton lint to prevent jams. -
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Age of reason
The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology is a deistic pamphlet, written by eighteenth-century British radical and American revolutionary Thomas Paine, that criticizes institutionalized religion and challenges the legitimacy of the Bible, the central sacred text of Christianity. Published in three parts in 1794, 1795, and 1807, it was a bestseller in the United States, where it caused a short-lived deistic revival. -
French Revolution
The French Revolution (1789–1799), sometimes distinguished as the 'Great French Revolution, Was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France and Europe. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years. French society underwent an epic transformation as feudal, aristocratic and religious privileges evaporated under a sustained assault from radical left-wing political groups, masses on the st -
Invention of First Steel Plow
In 1837, on his own, John Deere designed the first cast steel plow that greatly assisted the Great Plains farmers. -
Invention of First Electric Battery
French inventor, Gaston Plante developed the first practical storage lead-acid battery that could be recharged -
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
he attacking planes came in two waves; the first hit its target at 7:53 AM, the second at 8:55. By 9:55 it was all over. By 1:00 PM the carriers that launched the planes from 274 miles off the coast of Oahu were heading back to Japan. -
D-Day
The U.S. Army remembers June 6, 1944: D-Day in Normandy, France. -
Enola Gay Drops the Bomb
it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb of war. The bombs, code-name "Little Boy", was dropped at the city of Hiroshima, Japan.
