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Jan 1, 1440
Printing
Gutenberg invented the printing and that could published more books than early. -
May 29, 1453
Fall of Constantinople
Otomans took Constantinople and they closed all the ways to go to Asia. This became the beginnig of Modern Age -
Oct 18, 1469
The Catholic Kings
The marriage of Isabel I from Castile and Fernando II of Aragon supposed a dinastic union -
Jan 1, 1478
Inquisition
Court founded by Catholic Kings which function was the persecution of heretics. -
Aug 3, 1492
Colombus trip
Colombus set up from Palos thinking in a new way to go to Asia. -
Oct 14, 1492
The discovered of America
Colomus arrived at Bahamas Islands and he though he was in Asia but this wasn´t true. He had discovered a new continent. -
Jun 7, 1494
Traety of Tordesillas
The Earth was divided by a meridian into two parts. One was for Castile and the other was for Portugal -
Jan 1, 1516
Reing of Carlos I in Spain
King Carlos I, the gradson of the Catholic Monarchs, was educated in Flanders in the Netherlands. In this year, he became the King of Spain. -
Aug 10, 1519
Magellan's expedition
Magellan left Seville with Juan Sebastian Elcano. They wanted to find a passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Finally they went around the world. It was the first voyage around the world -
Oct 31, 1519
Luther
Luther proclaimed the Reformation in the Sacred Empire writing 95 porpouses against the indulgences. Later, Pope excommunicated him from the Catholic Churhc. -
Jan 1, 1534
Henry VIII established the Anglicanism in England
Henry wanted to divorce from his wife but the Pope didn´t allowed it, so Henry decided to create a new Church. -
Jan 1, 1545
Council of Trento began
Pope decided to make a Counter-Reformation in a meeting in Trento. Here, arzobisps and the Pope redifine the principals doctrines. -
Jan 15, 1556
The reing of Felipe II
He became king after Carlos I death -
Jan 1, 1571
Battle of Lepanto
Felipe II defeated the Turks at the Battle of Lepanto. -
The Armada
England supported the uprising, so Felipe II sent the Spanish Armada against them, although the armada was a powerful fleet of warships, it was defeated in 1588. -
Kepler
He desingned the law of the planets' orbits -
Galileo
Galileo started his astronomical observations -
Thirty years war
European countries revelled against Spanish Empire. End of the power of the Habsburgo family and the rise of the Borbon family. -
Newton
Newton created the universal gravitational law -
French Revolution
This became the end of Modern Age
