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Jan 1, 1300
Renaissance
The Renaissance was all about paintings, humanism and Secularism. -
Oct 18, 1418
Prince Henry starts the Navigation School.
This school was located in Portugal, It taught science, map-making, and navigation for sea routes to Africa. -
May 29, 1453
The fall of Constantinople.(Ottomans= Istanbul.)
The Ottomans conqured this city, then renamed it Istanbul,When the city of Constantinople fell, the Muslim Ottomans had complete controll. -
Oct 18, 1492
Culumbus' first voyage
Culumbus wanted to find a direct sea route to Asia, but instead landed in the Americas. He was an Italian explorer but was expoloring for the country of Spain. -
Oct 18, 1494
The Treaty of Tordesillas
It divided the area of who could conqure what between Spain and Portugal. Lands to the east would be Portugal, and lands to the west were givin to Spain to conqure. -
Jan 1, 1501
Michelangelo's "David"
A marble, nude satute of David made by Michelangelo. -
Jan 1, 1503
Leonardo's "Mona Lisa"
A portrait of a woman, -
Jan 1, 1508
Michelangelo's painting of the Sistine Chapel
A ceiling painting. -
Jan 1, 1509
Erasmus' "Praise of Folly"
An Essay written in Latin. The essay is a satire, -
Oct 18, 1521
Cortez conqures the Aztecs.
Durring the conqurozation of the Aztecs, many other tribes around the Aztecs helped so they could destroy them. The Aztecs did fall, and most of them died from diseases, -
Dec 14, 1543
Nicolaus Copernicus developed heliocentric theory.
This theory positioned the sun in the middle of the universe. It also started that earth was on of the seven planets to circle around the sun. -
Oct 18, 1572
Pizzaro conqures the Incas
This was one of the most important explorations in the Spanish colinazation of America. -
Shakespear's "The Tragedy of Julius Caesar"
This was a play about the Roman dictator, Julius Caesar. I -
Renaissance ends
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Galileo Galilei used telescope to support heliocentric theory.
He used a refracting telescope that he made on his own.
He used it to support the heliocentric theory, which the church did not like. -
William Harvey discovered circulation of the blood
he was one of the first to tell that blood circulated though the brain, and the heart. He said that blood pumped everywhere in your body. -
Johannes Kepler discovered planetary motion.
there are three laws that describe the motion of planets around the sun.
1- the orbit,
2- the line joining the planets with the sun,
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Oliver Cromwell and the execution of Charles I
Charles the first was one of the first monarches to be put on trial. his trial led to his execution. Shortly after, Oliver came into power. (He signed Charles' death warent.) He was labled, "Lord Protector." (he was beheaded.) -
Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan
This book has often been comparable to Machiavelli's The Prince. He states that a civil war could be avoided if we had a strong, undivided government. -
Taj Mahal.
A Mugal Emporer, Jahan, built the Taj Mahal for his wife, Mumtaz Mahal, when she died, -
When Louis XIV builds palace of Versailles
This is when the palace was finished being built. It was over-the-top and very, very expensive. It was the center of political power in France. -
Newton's law of universal gravitation
it states that everything is pushed down by a force. -
Glorious Revolution (William and Mary)
They wanted to throw King James the II of England off the thrown. They didn't like his ways. (Like relgious tolerance.) -
English Bill of Rights of 1689
This lays down limits to the power of the crown. It sets up rules for the Parliment and freedom of speech. -
John Locke’s Two Treatises on Government:
The book's publisher was unknown. It was made right after King James the seoncd had been overthrown by the government, -
Peter the Great builds St. Petersburg
Peter made the new capitol so that it would make trade easier for the Russians. Also, it opened a new window for Russia to progress. The capital was moved in 1712 -
Death of Louis XIV
He died in the Versailles. -
Montesquieu’s The Spirit of Laws:
Montesquieu spend about twenty three years reserching De l'esprit des lois (The Spirit of the Laws), and it was mostly about the law, social life, and anthropology. -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s The Social Contract
This book helped inspire and create revolutions in Europe. It was especially effective in France. -
Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson.
This was basically the document of the American Revolution. Thomas Jefferson was very proud of his role in this document. -
The American colonies win independence from England
This was when the thirteen colonies broke from the English government and became their own new country. George Washington became the colonies comander and later on, their first president. -
Storming of the Bastille
This was in the center of Paris. It's fall was the high point of the french revolution. -
Reign of Terror
This was the time of the mass death of "the enimies of the revolution." Everyone was afraid of everyone. 40,000 people died. -
Napoleon becomes Emperor
He was a French millitary and political leader. He was pretty much the emporer of France. -
Congress of Vienna meets
The whole point of this congress was to get rid of all of the chaos happening in Europe that started with right about when the French Revolution started. The first thing they did was establish the lines of France, so France grew weaker and smaller. -
Napoleon dies.
Napoleon died of stomach cancer.
