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1415
Prince Henry and his father led a attack on Ceuta
He also did it with his brothers -
1440
Johannes Gutenberg invented printing press
Makes it easier to copy things -
1478
Spanish inquisition
started looking for those guilty of Heresy, Alchemy, Witchcraft, and Sorcery -
1492
Christopher Columbus discovered San Salvador
Finds San salvador in Caribbean -
1498
Vasco Da Gama sailed across the Indian ocean by going around Africa
The first person to sail to India -
1503
Leonardo Da Vinci made the Mona Lisa
He painted a woman -
1508
Michelangelo mad and painted the Sistine Chapel
He painted on the top of the sistine chapel -
1509
Desiderius Erasmus wrote tthe Praise of Folly
Wrote the book Praise of Folly -
1517
Martin Luther nailed hi 95 theses to the Wittenberg Castle church
Nails his writings about how the church was wrong on the church door -
1519
Ferdinand Magellan he named the Pacific and was the first to sail around the world
Sailed from the Atlantic to the South -
1521
Hernan Cortes conquered the Aztecs
Defeats the Aztecs -
1533
Francisco Pizarro conquered the Incans in Peru
He conquered the Incans in peru -
1534
Society of Jesus founded by st. Ignatius of Layola
Helped slow Protestantism -
1534
Henry VIII broke England free of papal control and broke with church in 1534
Broke control of papal -
1534
Jacques Cartier explored Canada
Explores Canada -
1536
John Calvin starts Calvinism
He starts his new religion off of Christianity -
1542
Roman inquisition
started looking for those guilty of Heresy, Alchemy, Witchcraft, and Sorcery -
1543
Nicolaus Copernicus's heliocentric model of the universe
Model says that the earth revolves around the sun -
Period: 1545 to 1563
The counter reformation church needed to clearly define doctrines meetings in Trent
Needed to clearly define doctrines -
1559
Queen Elizabeth made Anglican the official church
Official church of England -
1564
Galileo Galilei looked at the sun with his telescope and also proved the heliocentric model correct
He looked at the sun and went blind from it -
Period: 1577 to 1580
Francis Drake sailed across the whole world
He was the second person to do it -
Miguel de Cervantes writes Don Quixote
A very iconic spanish story -
Period: to
Thirty Years War
War that lasted for thirty years -
Johannes Kepler came up with the laws of planetary motion and help prove heliocentric model
Came up with the planetary laws -
William Harvey described how blood circulated the heart and the veins and the body
He did very early surgeries in that time period -
Period: to
Louis comes into power and eventually dies
Louis has a good reign of power -
Charles I is executed for bad leadership
For bad leadership he is executed -
Thomas Hobbes wrote The Leviathan
Figured that a Absolute Monarch would be best -
Oliver Cromwell becomes dictator
His people don't like his rule -
Oliver Cromwell's death
Charles II leads after Oliver -
Period: to
Charles II leads to the Restoration i
Charles leads the Restoration -
Louis xiv built the palace of Versaille
Versaille was once a hunting lodge -
Period: to
Peter the Great ruled Russia
Ruled for about forty-seven years -
Laws of Motion founded by Sir Isaac Newton
This was formed after the laws of gravity -
Law of Gravity founded by Sir Isaac Newton
Laws of Gravity by Isaac before the laws of motion -
William and Mary took the throne
Because of the bad leadership and they are protestant -
William and Mary declared the English Bill of Rights
This helped the people of England -
John Locke wrote Two Treatises on Government
Said that people had natural rights like Life, Liberty, and Property -
Peter the Great brought in foreign experts and had fortified his army and made it very strong
they had forty-eight ships on the line and eight-hundred galleys -
Period: to
Fredrick the Great won The War of Austrian succession
Won the war over the Austrians -
Baron de Montesquieu wrote the Spirit of Laws
The book goes into detail about how he said that the separation of powers are best -
Voltaire wrote Candide
He wrote against prejudice, superstition, and intolerance -
Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote the Social Contract
Said that the only legitimate government rules with the consent of the people -
Period: to
Napoleon Crowns himself emperor and later loses in the battle of Waterloo eleven years later
loses battle in waterloo -
Eugene Delacroix painted Liberty Leading the People
He painted a master piece of history
