Western Civilization

  • Feb 12, 711

    Reconquista of Spain

  • Mar 17, 1418

    Prince Henry the Navigator opens maritime school

  • Aug 5, 1440

    J. Gutenberg develops movable type

  • Feb 12, 1473

    Copernicus

  • Oct 14, 1492

    Columbus reaches the New World

  • May 15, 1508

    Michelangelo paints Sistine Chapel

  • Jan 14, 1509

    D. Erasmus’ In Praise of Folly

  • Feb 12, 1509

    Reign of Henry VIII of England

  • Feb 12, 1509

    John Calvin

  • Nov 25, 1513

    N. Machiavelli’s The Prince

  • Apr 28, 1517

    M. Luther, 95 Theses

  • Jul 17, 1519

    Magellan circumnavigates the world

  • Jul 17, 1519

    H. Cortés interacts with Aztecs

  • Mar 13, 1528

    Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier

  • Apr 15, 1534

    Act of Supremacy

  • Sep 12, 1545

    Council of Trent

  • Feb 12, 1555

    Peace of Augsburg

  • Feb 23, 1556

    Reign of Philip II of Spain

  • Feb 12, 1558

    Reign of Elizabeth I of England

  • Mar 7, 1563

    Est. of the Jesuits

  • Apr 14, 1564

    W. Shakespeare

  • Feb 12, 1572

    St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre

  • Defeat of the Spanish Armada

  • René Descartes

  • Edict of Nantes

  • Baroque Period

  • Rembrandt

  • Reign of Gustavus II of Sweden

  • 30 Years’ War

  • Mayflower Compact

  • Cardinal Richelieu’s tenure as Chief Minister to Louis XIII

  • John Locke

  • Trial of Galileo

  • Isaac Newton

  • Reign of Louis XIV of France

  • Peace of Westphalia

  • Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

  • Reign of Peter the Great

  • Glorious Revolution

  • War of Spanish Succession

  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  • War of Austrian Succession

  • Montesquieu, On the Spirit of the Laws

  • French & Indian War

  • Thomas Pains, Common Sense