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Period: 1337 to 1453
Hundred Years war
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Period: 1350 to
Renaissance
Began in Italy and included lots of wars. -
1415
Prince Henry of Portugal
Brought back tons of gold and fortune after fighting the Civil War in Northern Africa. -
1439
Johannes Gutenberg
He gets involved in a confidential production project -
1455
Johannes Gutenberg
The "Forty-Two-Line bible is the first book ever printed in Europe from movable type. -
1476
Leonardo da Vinci
He was accused of sodomy and was publicly humiliated but the charges were later dropped -
Period: 1491 to 1557
Jacques Cartier
France’s King Francis I authorized the navigator Jacques Cartier to lead a voyage to the New World in order to seek gold and other riches, as well as a new route to Asia. -
1492
Desiderius Erasmus
Poverty enforced him into monastery life and was ordained a Catholic priest. -
1492
Christopher Colmbus
Christopher and his crew made landfall. When they thought they had reached Asia they were wrong they had actually reached the American continent. -
1497
Vasco de Gama
sailed from Lisbon on a mission to reach India and open a sea route from Europe to the East. After sailing down the western coast of Africa and rounding the Cape of Good Hope, his expedition made numerous stops in Africa before reaching the trading post of Calicut, India -
1498
Leonardo da Vinci
Completed the Last Supper -
1503
Leonardo da Vinci
The Mona Lisa is completed -
1504
Michelangelo
Completes The David -
1504
Hernan Cortez
Hernan decides to sail to the New World and make a life for himself, he sailed to what is now Haiti. -
1512
Michelangelo
He finished the Sistine Chapel -
1513
Francisco Pizarro
As a soldier, he served on the 1513 expedition of Vasco Núñez de Balboa, during which he discovered the Pacific Ocean. -
1519
Nicolaus Copernicus
He formulated an economics principle and was later called Gresham’s law. -
1521
Martin Luther
Luther was excommunicated -
1521
Ferdinand Magellan
Magellan discovers the Philippines. -
1521
Hernan Cortez
With Montezuma dead, Cortez took over the Aztec's capital city, this was the end of the Aztec Empire. -
Period: 1522 to 1524
St. Ignatius de Loyola
'Spiritual exercises' were authored by Ignatius Loyola -
1523
Desiderius Erasmus
He condemned Luther's methods in his work of De Libero Arbitrio -
1524
Hernan Cortez
Cortez worked to develop farms throughout New Spain, or Mexico, and he also helped spread Christianity. -
1526
Francisco Pizarro
They travelled to Peru in and then returned to get permission to claim the land for Spain. -
1531
Henry VII
Henry became the head of the church in England and wales as far as the word of god allows -
1532
John Calvin
Publishes his first work, a commentary on Senca's De Clementia. -
1546
Michelangelo
Appointed chief architect at St Peter's and the Farnese palace -
1558
Elizabeth I
Queen Mary dies and Elizabeth becomes Queen Elizabeth I. -
1567
Francis Drake
Drake sails with John Hawkins to the New World where they are trapped by the Spanish fleet that attacks and kills 500 Englishmen, Drake narrowly escapes on the Judith. -
1570
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth is excommunicated from the Catholic Church by the pope. -
Period: 1577 to 1580
Francis Drake
Drake sails around the world in the Golden Hind, and he is the first Englishmen to ever do so. -
Miguel de Cervantes
He published his first piece of work called La Galatea -
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William Shakespeare
His first play is made -
William Shakespeare
The London theaters are closed due to an outbreak of bubonic plague that ends up killing about five percent of the city's residents. Shakespeare uses the break to write poetry. -
William Shakespeare
The globe theater is built -
William Shakesoeare
The Hamlet is written -
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes got his bachelor degree of Thucydides -
Johannes Kepler
Published the Astronomia Nova. -
Galileo Galilei
Heliocentric books were banned and Galileo was told to hold back teaching, or defending Heliocentric. -
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The Thirty Years war
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Charles I
He was the monarch of three kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland until his death. -
Oliver Cromwell
Cromwell was elected to the Parliament -
John Locke
The end of the Thirty Years War on December 4th -
Charles 2
Charles was proclaimed by the Parliament as king on February the 5th. -
Oliver Cromwell
He served as the lord Protector of Commonwealth for England, Scotland and Ireland. -
John Locke
John Locke writes some of the essay on December 4th -
Peter the Great
Ruled the Tsardom of Russia and later the Russian Empire from the 7th of May until death. -
Isaac Newton
His book Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica was published. -
William and Mary
English Parliament offered William and Mary the throne as joint monarchs, which is known as the Glorious Revolution. -
Isaac Newton
His influential book Opticks was published. -
Peter the Great
He established the governing Senate. -
Baron de Montesquieu
He surprised close friends by publishing his Lettres Persanes. -
Baron de Montesquieu
He was elected and took his seat in October. -
Frederick the Great
Ruled from Prussia until his death. -
Jean Jacques Rousseau
He wrote “Discourse of the Arts and Sciences. -
Voltaire
Voltaire writes his most famous philosophical tale, Candide -
Louis XVI
Louis Auguste became Louis XVI on May 10th from the loss of his grandfather Louis XV -
Napoleon Bonaparte
He is given the command of the French army of Italy on March 2nd -
Louis XVI
He was executed by Guillotine for treason -
Eugene Delacroix
He enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. -
William Harvey
The William Harvey Hospital was constructed on in Ashford a few miles from where he was born. -
Galileo Galilei
NASA sent a mission to Jupiter it was named Galileo in honor of the astronomer.
