The Years Timeline (European History)

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  • Period: Dec 11, 1300 to

    Humanistic timespan

    A Humanism movement ,started along side the renaissance, marked a time where the human was more looked at and observed rather than secular improvements.
  • Jun 10, 1304

    Francesco Petrarch

    An Italian scholor and poet who is considered the father of humanism.
  • Period: Dec 1, 1330 to Dec 1, 1550

    Renaissance in Italy

    This caused major cultural and economic changes, like art, religion POV's, and patronism of the arts.
  • Period: Dec 11, 1337 to Dec 11, 1453

    Hundered Years War

    Conflict Between England And France over how England declares its monarchal rights over France. At first England was winning then France came out on top.
  • Period: Dec 11, 1378 to Dec 11, 1417

    The Great Schism

    Was a Split When the Roman catholic Church tried to claim one true pope then ended with three. Popes included Boniface IX, Innocent VII, and Gregory XII.
  • Dec 10, 1394

    Henry The Navigator

    A portugul Navigator than sailed aroung the cap of good hope to establisha trade route to India.
  • Oct 21, 1398

    Johannes Gutenburg

    He was a german Roman Catholic who invened the Printing Press.
  • Period: Dec 11, 1434 to

    The Influence of The Medici Family

  • Dec 21, 1451

    Christopher Columbus

    Tried to find India But instead discoered the Americas. landed on the west indes thinkng it was india.
  • Apr 15, 1452

    Leonardo Da Vinci

    A true reniassance man of many talents. he was an Italian, inventor, sculpture, architect, scientist, musician, mathematician, and engineer, he is also known as the father of paleontology, ichnology, and architecture, and considered on =e of the greatist painters of all time.
  • Apr 9, 1454

    The Treaty of Lodi

    The Treaty of Lodi was a peace agreement signed at Lodi in Lombardi between Milan, Naples and Florence that ended a long power struggle between Italian states. It confirmed Francesco Sforza as the duke of Milan. It established a balance of power among Italian states.
  • Dec 2, 1469

    Lorenzo de' Medici

  • Dec 11, 1473

    Nicolas Copernicus

    Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who is responsible for the heliocentric model of the universe. His work contributed immensly to the Scientific Revolution
  • Mar 12, 1475

    Michelangelo

    Michelangelo Simoni was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer, he had enormous influence on the development of Western art. He is regarded as a prime example of a Renaissance man.
  • Dec 10, 1476

    Extended Sales of Indulgences

    A In 1476, Pope Sixtus IV extended indulgences to the unrepented sins of all Christions in purgatory, meaning indulgences could be granted even after a person had died. this type of Practice was frowned upon by many which cause the first basis of the protestant reformation.
  • Feb 7, 1478

    Thomas More

    Thomas More was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist, as well as the author of Utopia, which is about the perfect society and government.
  • Apr 6, 1483

    Raphael

    Raphael was an Italian painter and architect, whose work was admired for ideal human body. For a painter at the time, Rahpael was extremley productive. Along with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he serves as another influence of art.
  • Period: Oct 21, 1492 to

    Age of Discovery

    the age of discovery is a time period where goegraphical discoveries were made. Sea exploration improved emmensly as maps and vessels improved.
  • Oct 20, 1494

    The League of Venice

    The League of Venice was an alliance of several opponents of French leadership in Italy, arranged by Pope Alexander VI during the Italian War of 1494-1489.
  • Dec 12, 1507

    Amerigo Vespucci

    Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer and navigator who was the first to demonstrate that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's east.This discovery eventually resulted in the indentification of America.
  • Jul 10, 1509

    John Calvin

    John Calvin was a French theologian and pastor who was influential during the Protestant Reformation. Calvinism advocated the doctrine of predestination and the absolute sovereignty of God
  • Jan 1, 1516

    Linear Perspective

    Linear perspective was achieved through observation of nature, especially anatomical dissections. This technique presents space, and depicts spacial reality, which made it the first style of its kind.
  • Oct 31, 1517

    Martin Luther and His 95 Thesis

    Martin Luther was a German priest, professor of theology, and an influential figure in the Protestant Reformation. His 95 Theses protested the belief that God's forgiveness could be bought with money. His translation of the Bible into the vernacular made it more accessible to common people.
  • Dec 11, 1517

    Start of Protestant Reormation

  • Dec 11, 1543

    Start of Scientific Revolution

  • Jan 1, 1547

    Catherine De Medici

    Catherine de' Medici was Queen of France as the wife of Henry II. As the mother of three sons who became king, she ruled France for a while as Queen regent.
  • Dec 13, 1553

    Henry IV

    Henry IV of France was King of Navarre from 1572 to 1610 and King of France from 1589 to 1610. He was the first French monarch of the House of Bourbon.
  • Jul 16, 1555

    Huguenots

    Huguenots are Protestants influenced by the teachings of john calvin. They establiched their first church, 1555, before the French Wars of Region.
  • Nov 17, 1558

    Elizabeth I

    Elizabeth I was the daughter of Henry VIII of England and Anne Boleyn, as well as Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death.
  • Dec 11, 1561

    Francis Bacon

    Francis Bacon was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, essayist and author. He strongly advocated the idea of scientific discovery based on observation of nature.
  • Jan 1, 1562

    Hugenots

    Huguenots were French Protestants (Calvinists) inspired by the writings of John Calvin. Mainly persecuted by Catholic Hugenots.
  • Period: Mar 1, 1562 to

    French Wars of Religon

    A period of civil infighting between the Catholic Huguenots and the Protestant Huguenots.
  • Dec 11, 1564

    Galileo Galilei

  • Aug 24, 1572

    St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

  • May 6, 1576

    Peace of Beaulieu

  • Thomas Hobbes

  • The Spanish Naval Fleet

  • Rene Descartes

  • Period: to

    The Enclosure Act

    A Britian parliamentary desicion which closed common land for the implementation of right to property.

  • John Locke

  • Peace of Prague

  • Isaac Newton

  • Peace of Westphalia

  • War of Jenkin's Ear

  • The War of Austrian Succession

  • Diplomatic Revolution

  • Catherine The Great Becomes Empress

  • Pugachev's Rebellion

  • Adam Smith - The Wealth of Nations

  • Yorktown

    An American And frech coallition ended the war on american soil with britian. This ended the American Revolution.

  • Louis XVI sumons the Estates General

  • Seige of Bastille

  • The Chapeleir Law

  • Queen Marie Antoinette is executed

  • Period: to

    Napoleonic Empire

  • Period: to

    Italian Unification

    Began when Nationalists hoped or unification, Giusepppe mazzini and Garibaldi led movements and armies to unify the nation states.
  • Period: to

    German Unification

    This transformed europe as the dominant prussian- German empire unified most of its "People".

  • Coup d'Etat of Napoleon Bonaparte

  • Crimean War

  • Piedmont assists Britian and France

  • Italian Nation State

  • Victor Emmanuel declared King of Italy

  • Otto Von Bismark elected Prime Minister of Prussia

  • Seven Weeks War or Austro-Prussian War

  • Franco-Prussian War

  • Unification of Germany

  • Treaty of Frankfurt