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Jan 1, 1300
The ressiance
religous on paintings -
Aug 18, 1418
Prince Henryfound navigation school in Portugal
established his institute at Sagres and expanded geographic -
Aug 2, 1453
Byzantine Ca[ital conquered
Renamed Instanbul after connquered -
Aug 3, 1492
Colubus first voyage
Christopher Columbus may have been looking for a new trade route to Asia when he set out in 1492, but he discovered something far more important. -
Jun 10, 1494
Treaty of Tordesillas
The Treaty of Tordesillas was agreed upon by the Spanish and the Portuguese to clear up confusion on newly claimed land in the New World. The early 1400s brought about great advances in European exploration. -
Sep 5, 1503
micheal Angelo "David"
made intirely of marble -
Oct 5, 1509
prasie of folly
written by Erasmus. Written in latin. -
Dec 3, 1512
The sistine Chapel
Had very historic panitings of a lot of differnt pictures -
Sep 2, 1517
Mona Lisa
This is painted by Learndo da Vince. -
Dec 18, 1521
Cortez conquors the Aztecs
The Spanish conquest of the Aztecs in 1521, led by Hernando Cortes, was a landmark victory for the European settlers. Following the Spanish arrival in Mexico, a huge battle erupted between the army of Cortes and the Aztec people under the rule of Montezuma. -
Sep 17, 1532
Pizzaro conquors the Inca
Spanish conquest was undoubtedly the proximate cause of the collapse of the Inca Empire, it may very well have been past its peak and in the process of decline. -
Dec 20, 1543
Nicolaus Copernicus developed heliocentric theory
The Copernican model departed from the Ptolemaic system that prevailed in Western culture for centuries, placing Earth at the center of the Universe, and is often regarded as the launching point to modern astronomy and the Scientific Revolution. -
The tragedy of Julies Ceasar
Shake spear wrotw this. -
Johannes Kepler dicovered planetary motion
Kepler's laws and his analysis of the observations on which they were based challenged the long-accepted geocentric models of Aristotle and Ptolemy, and generally supported the heliocentric theory of Nicolaus Copernicus -
Galileo Galilei used telescope to support heliocentric theory
when Galileo made improvements to his telescope, which enabled him to observe celestial bodies more distinctly than had ever been possible before -
William Harvey discovered the circulation of blood
Harvey focused much of his research on the mechanics of blood flow in the human body. Most physicians of the time felt that the lungs were responsible for moving the blood around throughout the body. -
Taj Mahal built
Shah Jahan, emperor during the Mughal empire's period of greatest prosperity, was grief-stricken when his third wife, Mumtaz Mahal, died during the birth of their 14th child. -
Oliver Cromwell and the Execution of Charles1
Charles I was the first of our monarchs to be put on trial for treason and it led to his execution. This event is one of the most famous -
The Restoration of Charles 2
proclaimed that King Charles II had been the lawful monarch since the execution of Charles I -
Thomas Hobbes Leviathian
The work concerns the structure of society and legitimate government, and is regarded as one of the earliest and most influential examples of social contract theory. -
Isaac Newton formulated law of gravity
Newton's Principia formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation that dominated scientists' view of the physical universe for the next three centuries. It also demonstrated that the motion of objects on the Earth -
Louis XIV builds palace of Versailles
This symblolized Louis's great authority and power -
Glorious Revolution (William and Mary)
William's successful invasion of England with a Dutch fleet and army led to his ascending of the English throne -
English Bill of Rights of 1689
It lays down limits on the powers of the crown and sets out the rights of Parliament and rules for freedom of speech in Parliament, the requirement for regular elections to Parliament and the right to petition the monarch without fear of retribution. It reestablished the liberty of Protestants to have arms for their defence within the rule of law, and condemned James II of England for "causing several good subjects being Protestants to be disarmed at the same time when papists were both armed a -
John Lockes Two Treaties on Government
The First Treatise attacks patriarchalism in the form of sentence-by-sentence refutation of Robert Filmer's Patriarcha, while the Second Treatise outlines Locke's ideas for a more civilised society based on natural rights and contract theory. -
Peter the Great bulids St. Petersburg
Russian victories in these wars greatly expanded Peter's empire, and the defeat of Sweden won Russia direct access to the Baltic Sea, a lifelong obsession of the Russian leader. With the founding of St. Petersburg, Russia -
Montesquieus The Spirit of Laws
Montesquieu took a less playful tone. Rather than lampooning French customs as he did in The Persian Letters, he offered a wide–ranging comparative analysis of governmental institutions. He argued that the type of government varied depending on circumstances. -
Jean-Jacques Rousseaus The Social Contract
Locke's version emphasised a contact between the governors and the governed: Rousseau's was in a way much more profound - the social contract was between all members of society, and essentially replaced "natural" rights as the basis for human claims. -
The American colonies win independence from England
On this day in 1776, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence, which proclaims the independence of a new United States of America from Great Britain and its king -
Thomas Jeffersons Decleration of Independance
his paper had been published as a pamphlet and sent throughout the colonies and on to England where Edmund Burke, sympathetic to the colonial condition, had it reprinted and circulated widely.
