world history ll timeline By hwangsonna 1400 The Renaissance begins 1419 prince henry navigation school founded May 29, 1453 fall of Constantinople Oct 12, 1492 Columbus discovers America 1502 Vasco de Gama finds water route around the tip of Africa 1511 Erasmus' Praise of Folly published Oct 31, 1517 95 these is nailed to Wittenburg church 1519 mona lisa finished Sep 20, 1519 Magellan Circumnavigates the globe 1520 peak of ottoman empire 1521 Pissarro conquered the Aztecs 1526 start of Mughal empire 1528 Tobacco introduced to Europe 1534 Anglican Church started 1543 Copernicus' Heliocentric theory published Dec 13, 1545 Council of Trent 1566 Michelangelo's David 1588 Defeat of Spanish Armada 1609 Galileo's first telescope built 1618 William Harvey discovered human blood circulation 1632 Taj Mahal is built Jul 5, 1687 Newton's Laws of Gravity published in the Principia