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Period: Jan 8, 1300 to
World History Time Toast
Dates of the Renissance -
May 2, 1360
Yonglo becomes Ming Emperor
Emperor of the Ming -
Mar 4, 1394
Prince Henry of Portugal is born
Prince Henry the Navigator is born -
May 20, 1408
Donatello creates his David statue
David is created the sculpture -
Apr 10, 1421
Zheng He captains his first voyage
First voyage by Zheng He -
Sep 9, 1450
Johan Gutenberg invents the Printing Press
The first Printing Press made in the Renissance times by Johan Gutenberg -
Apr 6, 1453
Fall of Constantinople to the turks
Was conqured by the Byzantine Empire by commandor Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos -
Apr 30, 1453
The Hundred Years' War Ends
The end of the ravaging war with the Christians and the Muslims -
Apr 28, 1482
Edward the VI is born
King Edward the IV is born -
May 12, 1488
B. Dias reaches Cape of Good Hope
B. Dias reaches Cape of Good Hope -
Aug 17, 1490
Ferdinand and Isabella ends war with Muslims
Muslims wouldn't convert to Christian -
Apr 17, 1491
Ignatius of Loyola found the Jesuit order
Found the Jesuit order -
Jun 30, 1491
Nicolaus Copernicus begins studying planetary movement
Copernicus learns astronamy and how the planets revolve around the earth -
Oct 12, 1492
C. Columbus spots land in North America
Christopher Columbus spots land in North America -
Jun 7, 1497
Spain & Portugal agree to Treaty of Tordesillas
Agreement of exploration -
Jul 8, 1497
Vasco da Gama lands in India
Vaco da Gama reaches India -
Apr 10, 1503
Machiavelli writes the Prince
The prince made by Machiavelli -
Jun 15, 1504
Leonardo Davinci starts the Mona Lisa
Leonardo starts the Mona Lisa -
Mar 20, 1507
Amerigo Vespucci charts New World coast
Amerigo Vespucci makes new world map -
Jul 13, 1508
Michelangelo paints the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
Paints the ceiling of the Chapel -
May 20, 1510
Raphael paints School of Athens
painting of a school in Athens, Rome -
Oct 31, 1517
Martin Luther posts his 95 Thesis
Martin Luther post his thesises on a chruch door -
Feb 12, 1519
H. Cortez lands on Mexican coast
Hernando Cortez lands in Mexico -
Nov 16, 1532
F. Pizarro meets Atahualpa
Franciso Pizarro meets the Incan emporer -
Jun 16, 1533
Ivan the Terrible
King of Russia until death -
May 19, 1534
Jasques Cartier claims land in Canada
Claims Canada for France -
May 15, 1536
Anne Boleyn is executed
Anne Boleyn was beheaded and executed -
Oct 1, 1553
Mary I becomes Queen
Queen of England -
Feb 14, 1554
Seven Years' War
French and Indian War begins -
Jan 13, 1556
Philip II becomes king of Spain
His dad Ferninand inherited Spain to him -
Nov 17, 1558
Elizabeth I becomes queen
becomes queen of England -
Jun 13, 1568
Dutch Revolt
The revolt all started because of tax raises -
Defeat of the Spanish Armada
King Philip II had his army of 50,000 men. Got defeated by the English who had small ships and blocked a canal where the Spanish couln't get in. -
Johannes Kepler mathematically proves Cpernicus and Brahe
He proves Copernicus's and Brahe's theroies in how the world moves. -
English East India Company is founded
trade company is founded -
Dutch East India Company is founded
The company is formed for trading -
Henry Husdson is last seen
Last seen at a village on a trade route -
Cardinal Richelieu is king of France
Cardinal Richelieu becomes king of France after Henry IV
dies -
William Shakespeare Dies
The famous writer for making plays like Romeo and Juliet -
Thirty-Years' War
War for power with Spain and France -
Charles I
King of Britian -
English Civil War
War about Parliament -
Louis XIV becomes king of France
Louis XIV becomes king of France and during his terms as king he beocmes a psychopath and kills his son in front of everyone. -
Oliver Cromwell
English general during English Cival war -
Thomas Hobbes outlines the social contract in Leviathan
helps peopl socially interact -
New Netherlands becomes New York
Britain controls New Netherlands -
Peter the Great
King of Russia after Ivan the Terrible died -
Peter the Great visits the west
Disguies himself a ship worker -
La Salle claims the Mississippi River for Spain
La Salle claims the Mississippi River -
Isaac Newton published his laws of gravity in Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Made his published book about gravity and how it affects the world. -
John Locke justifies rebellion in Two Treatises on Government
Emphasis on the government -
War of Spanish Succession
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Frederick the Great
King of Prussia and ruled til 1786 -
Gabriel Fahrenheit makes the first mercury-in -glass thermometer
The invention of the glass thermometer -
Maria Theresa
Queen of Austria til 1780 -
Voltaire is exiled to england
Was an insult to France -
Frederick the Great begins his reign in Prussia
Ruled Prussia through alot of wars -
Anders Cesius creates his scale for measuring temperature
He made the Celsius scale for temperature -
Baron von Montesquieu purposed separation of power in On the Spirit of Lawas
wrote about his father -
Mary Wollstonecraft is born
Mary Wollstonecraft was born. -
Catherine the Great puts down the serf Rebellion
Takes down the serf Rebellion -
Cesare Baccaria writes against torture in On Crimes and Punishment
He writes about what happens during exucution. -
Joseph II abolishes serfdom in Austria
Abolishes serfdom because he hated it -
Mozart first perfomrs Don Giovanni
First performance of his writen music -
First slave revolts in Hispaniola
First slave to revolt -
Beethoven dies
famous composer dies
