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Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
Age of Discovery
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Apr 21, 1509
Henry VIII succeedes to English thrown
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Jan 1, 1516
Sir Thomas More writes Utopia
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Period: Jan 1, 1517 to
Protestant Reformation
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Oct 31, 1517
Martin Luther nailed the 95 These
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May 2, 1519
Leonardo Di Vinci death
Painted Mona Lisa in 1517 -
Period: Sep 7, 1533 to
Queen Elizabeth's rule until death
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Period: Dec 3, 1533 to Jan 16, 1547
Ivan the Terrible is Tzar of Russia
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Sep 24, 1541
Paracelsus death
His ideas on how achlemy should be used to benefit the medical society, rather than for personal gains of trying to turn metal to gold, was gone about in an abrusive way. -
Period: Jan 1, 1545 to Jan 1, 1563
Council of Trent
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Oct 24, 1546
Tycho Brahe death
He was funded by the government to do research on the planetary movements on his own private island where he owned both a midgit and an elk (who dies falling drunken down stairs). Plus he had some major facial hair that really contributed to his insanity. -
Feb 20, 1547
Edward VI crowned after Henry VIII death
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May 27, 1564
John Calvin death
John Calvin founded Calvinism which is a branch of Protestantism. The beliefs were TULIP; total depravity, unconditional election, limited atonement, irresistable grace, and perserverence of the saints. -
Dec 17, 1566
Charles I succeeds James I as King of England
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Defeat of the Spanish Armada
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Edict of Nantes allows Calvinism in France
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Bruno burned at the steak
Bruno contributed his idea of an infinite universe which contridicted the churches finite belief so he was put to death. He was a natural philosopher and moral reformer, like Paracelsus. -
Jamestown settled
The fisrt permanent british settlelment -
Miguel Cervantes wrote Don Quixote
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Death of William Shakespeare
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Thirty Years War in Germany
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Sir Francis Bacon death
Father of the Scientific Method and was a skeptic and naturalist. -
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Charles I's personal rule
Parliment ends this -
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English Revolution
During this time period the country of England was divided over opinions of how to run the country, and also over who should be responsible for funding scientific research. -
Johannes Kepler death
Kepler came up with the idea of orbital planetary motion. -
Taj Mahal built
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James II rules ofer England
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Robert Fludd death
Fludd was a contraversial man. He supported Rosicrucians against Andreas Libavius, debated with Kepler, and argued against natural philosophers like Gassendi. -
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English Civil War
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Galileo death
After he built a telescope and mathematically proved our orbits were heliocentric, he was put under houde arrest for the remainder of his life. He was one of the first to back up a theory with math or science rather than perseption. -
Marin Mersenne death
Mersenne contributed two aspects of modern science; using math of observations and appearence as reliablel scientific evidence, and hypothetucalism. -
Rene Descartes death
Descartes decided that during his retirement he would rid himself of opinions pushed onto him and look for truth and proof of existence. He proves through logic processes three things;1) existence of a perfect God, 2) immortality of the human soul, and 3)the immensity of the universe. -
Thomas Hobbes publisheed the Leviathan
His mindset was that all of humanity is naturally evil and needs a string government to control them. -
Piere Gassendi death
Gassendi claimed an infinite universe - this cosmos is called stoicized atomism - and was a skeptic who believed in atomistic conception os matter that is not random but guided by God. -
William Harvey death
Harvey is credited with discovering the circulation of blood in the body drastically increasing medical asvancements after this. -
John Wilkins death
He was a scientist that mostly advanced the natural thinking and categorized the world's items (like rock). -
King Louis X!V builds Palace of Versailles
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Peter the Great is Tsar of Russia
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Glorious Revolution ends
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Salem Witch Trials in Massachuesetts
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John Locke death
Life, liberty, and the right to property were three ideas of Lockes that influenced the later writing of the Declaration of Independence. -
Isaac Newton death
Formed the three scientific laws of motion. He lived in a time when the church didn't regulate every scientific advancements and he didn't have to jump through any holes of risk a prosectution of atheism against him.