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1418
Henry founded the Navigation school.
Henry opened the first school for oceanic navigation, where students could learn about map-making, scientific practices, astrology… -
1440
The printing press
printing press is a mechanical device invented by Johannes Gutenberg for applying pressure to an inked surface. -
Jun 7, 1494
Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas
Treaty of Tordesillas neatly divided the "New World" into land, resources, and people claimed by Spain and Portugal. -
Apr 2, 1513
Ponce de Leon discovers Florida
Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León comes ashore on the Florida coast, and claims the territory for the Spanish crown. -
Oct 31, 1517
Martin Luther posts the 95 Theses
The 95 Theses is a list of propositions for an academic disputation. -
Oct 31, 1517
Martin Luther begins the Reformation
Martin Luther, a teacher and a monk, published a document he called Disputation on the Power of Indulgences, or 95 Theses. -
1521
Cortes conquers Aztec Empire
15th and early 16th centuries controlled a capital city that was one of the largest in the world? -
Jan 3, 1521
Pope excommunicated Luther
Pope Leo X issues the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem, which excommunicates Martin Luther from the Catholic Church. -
1532
Pizarro conquers Inca Empire
Conquest of the Inca Empire, was one of the most important campaigns in the Spanish colonization of the Americas. -
May 23, 1533
Henry VIII seeks to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon
Henry sought to seek an annulment from his first wife Catherine, who was now in her 40s and past the age of bearing children. -
1534
Parliament approves the formation of the English Church
Parliament passed the Act of Supremacy which defined the right of Henry VIII to be supreme head on earth of the Church of England. -
1536
Henry VIII starts the Church of England
Henry had broken with Rome, seized assets of the Catholic Church in England and Wales and declared the Church of England. -
1536
John Calvin publishes the Institutes of the Christian Religion
John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion is a defining book of the Reformation and a pillar of Protestant theology. -
1540
Ignatius Loyola founds the Society of Jesus
Ignatius Loyola had gathered around him an energetic band of well-educated men who desired nothing more than to help others find God in their lives. -
1541
Coronado discovers Arizona, Texas, Kansas and New Mexico
Marched east to the Texas panhandle, and in May Coronado and thirty horsemen rode north to Quivira, which was located in Kansas. -
1545
Council of Trento mandates reforms in Catholic Church
The Council of Trent was the formal Roman Catholic reply to the doctrinal challenges of the Protestant Reformation. -
Dec 13, 1545
Pope Paul III begins the Council of Trent
The Council of Trent was a meeting of Catholic clerics convened by Pope Paul III. -
Sep 25, 1555
Peace of Augsburg recognizes the Lutheran Church
Peace of Augsburg, first permanent legal basis for the coexistence of Lutheranism and Catholicism in Germany. -
Abraham Darby
was that of an ironfounder, making cast-iron pots and other goods, an activity in which he was particularly successful. -
Thomas Newcomen
The engine was operated by condensing steam drawn into the cylinder, thereby creating a partial vacuum which allowed the atmospheric pressure to push the piston into the cylinder. -
Seven years war
The Seven Years' War was a global conflict that involved most of the European great powers, and was fought primarily in Europe -
James Hargreaves
Is a multi-spindle spinning frame, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of textile manufacturing during the early Industrial Revolution. -
James Watt
The first steam engines, introduced by Thomas Newcomen in 1712, were of the "atmospheric" design. At the end of the power stroke, the weight of the object being moved by the engine pulled the piston to the top of the cylinder as steam was introduced. -
Boston tea party
Was an mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts. They throw all the tea imported from india in a sible of protest. -
First continental congress
The First Continental Congress was a meeting of delegates from 12 of the 13 British colonies that became the United States. -
Battle of Concord and Lexington
The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
Second continental congress
The Second Continental Congress was a late-18th-century meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolutionary War. -
USA declaration of independence
The United States Declaration of Independence, officially The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, is the pronouncement and founding document adopted by the Second Continental Congress. -
George Washington crosses the Delaware
George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River occurred on the night of December 25–26, 1776, during the American Revolutionary War. -
Saratoga battle
The Battle of Saratoga was one of the most important warfare fought during the course of the American War of Independence. -
French treaty of alliance
The American Colonies and France signed this military treaty on February 6, 1778. -
Samuel Crompto
Is a machine used to spin cotton and other fibres. They were used extensively from the late 18th to the early 20th century in the mills of Lancashire and elsewhere. -
British surrendered in Yorktown
On October 19, 1781, British General Charles Cornwallis surrendered his army of some 8,000 men to General George Washington at Yorktown, giving up any chance of winning the Revolutionary War. -
Edmund Cratwright
Is a mechanized loom, and was one of the key developments in the industrialization of weaving during the early Industrial Revolution. -
Henry Cort
Is stirred to separate out impurities and extract the higher quality wrought iron. -
Louis XVI calls the Estates General
The political and financial situation in France had grown rather bleak, forcing Louis XVI to summon the Estates General. -
Tennis Court Oath
The Tennis Court Oath was a union commitment presented on June 20, 1789 between the 577 deputies of the third estate to not separate until giving France a Constitution, facing pressure from the King of France Louis XVI -
Storming of the Bastille
The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France, on 14 July 1789, when revolutionary insurgents stormed and seized the bastille -
Louis XVI amd Marie Antoinette captured at Varennes
The king and his family were eventually arrested in the town of Varennes, 31 miles from their ultimate destination, the heavily fortified royalist citadel of Montmédy. The arrest of Louis XVI and his family at the house of the registrar of passports, at Varennes. -
Eli Whitney
Is a mechanical device that removes seeds from cotton, a process that was previously labor intensive. -
Execution of Louis XVI
Louis XVI, king of France, was publicly executed on 21 January 1793 during the French Revolution at the Place de la Révolution in Paris. -
Nicolas Appert
started putting food in a tightly closed glass jar and boiling it for a certain period. -
Coup d´etat of Brumaire
The Coup d'état of 18 Brumaire brought Napoleon Bonaparte to power as First Consul of France. In the view of most historians, it ended the French Revolution and led to the Coronation of Napoleon as Emperor. -
Richard Trevithic
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Napoleon crowned as emperor
The Crown of Napoleon was a coronation crown manufactured for Napoleon and used in his coronation as Emperor of the French by the Pope -
Victory of Austerlitz
The decisive victory of Napoleon's Grande Armée at Austerlitz brought the War of the Third Coalition to a rapid end, with the Treaty of Pressburg -
R. Fulton
He was an American engineer, businessman, and inventor, best known for developing the first steamboat, which became a commercial success. -
Beginning of the Spanish War of Independence
The Spanish American wars of independence were numerous wars in Spanish America with the aim of political independence from Spanish rule during the early 19th century -
Battle of Bailen
The Battle of Bailén was fought in 1808 between the Spanish Army of Andalusia, led by General Francisco Javier Castaños and the Imperial French Army's II corps d'observation de la Gironde under General Pierre Dupont de l'Étang -
Luddite rebellion in Great Britain
Political reform in 19th century Britain. The machine-breaking disturbances that rocked the wool and cotton industries were known as the 'Luddite riots'. -
Battle of the Nations (Leipzig)
The Battle of Leipzig, also called the Battle of the Nations, was the largest armed confrontation of all the Napoleonic Wars and the most important battle lost by Napoleon Bonaparte. -
Exile of Napoleon in Elba
Napoleon Bonaparte during his exile on the Island of Elba, where it was his summer residence. The second, the Palazzina dei Mulini. -
Battle of Waterloo
The Battle of Waterloo was a combat that took place on June 18, 1815 in the vicinity of Waterloo, a town in present-day Belgium where Napoleon was defeated. -
Napoleon´s death at St. Helena
contention regarding the origins of the death mask and its copies is that Madame Bertrand, Napoleon's attendant on St. Helena -
George Stephenson
Una locomotora de vapor o locomotora a vapor es un tipo de locomotora impulsada por la acción del vapor de agua. Era la forma dominante de tracción en los ferrocarriles, hasta que a mediados del siglo XX fueron reemplazadas por las locomotoras diésel y eléctricas. -
Michael Faraday
Electromagnetic or magnetic induction is the production of an electromotive force (emf) across an electrical conductor in a changing magnetic field. -
John Deere
John Deere was an American blacksmith and manufacture. -
Samuel Morse
Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of messages where the sender uses symbolic codes, known to the recipient, rather than a physical exchange of an object bearing the message -
Antonio Meucci
A telephone is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly -
Henry Bessemer
The Bessemer process was the first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel from molten pig iron before the development of the open hearth furnace. -
First subway of the world in London
The world's first underground railway opened in London in 1863, as a way of reducing street congestion. Here is a very short history of the Underground. -
Charles Tellier
A chiller is a machine that removes heat from a liquid coolant via a vapor-compression, adsorption refrigeration, or absorption refrigeration cycles -
Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone that had been invented by Antonio Meucci
In 1874, due to a lack of money, Meucci could not renew the patent caveat protecting his invention, and two years later he learned that Alexander Graham Bell, a worker from the laboratories of Western Union, had received the patent for the telephone. -
Thomas Alba Edison
An incandescent light bulb, incandescent lamp or incandescent light globe is an electric light with a wire filament heated until it glows. -
Karl Benz
A vehicle (from Latin: vehiculum[1]) is a machine that transports people or cargo. Vehicles include wagons, bicycles, motor vehicles, railed vehicles, watercraft, amphibious and spacecraft. -
Wright Brothers
The Wright Model A was an early aircraft produced by the Wright Brothers in the United States beginning in 1906. It was a development of their Flyer III airplane of 1905