1490-1717 Ap Euro

By Dixie Lucas
  • 1490

    Columbus sailed the ocean blue.

  • Period: 1497 to 1498

    Da Gama Goes around Africa

  • 1505

    Mona Lisa painted

  • 1509

    Henry VIII is King

  • 1510

    School of Athens

  • 1517

    95 Theses

  • 1520

    Cortes conquers Aztecs

  • 1524

    Peasant's Revolt

  • 1534

    Act of Supremacy

  • 1543

    Copernicus views published after death

  • Period: 1545 to 1563

    Council of Trent

  • 1555

    Peace of Augsburg

  • 1558

    Queen Elizabeth

  • 1562

    Religious wars in France

  • 1568

    Netherlands Revolution

  • Defeat of Spanish Armada

  • Edict of Nantes

  • Elizabeth I dies

    James I of Scotland - Stuarts take over.

  • Sir Francis Bacon

    Publishes ideas on deductive reasoning

  • Kepler --> elliptical

    Galileo produces 1st telescope,

  • Henry IV is assassinated

    Louis XIII takes over.

  • 30 years war

  • Galileo on trial

  • Descarte ideas

    Vs Bacon empriticism deductive v. reasoning

  • Frederick William Great Elector

  • English Civil War

    Charles I - Roundhead vs, Cavaliers

  • Peace of West Phalia

    Decline of the Holy Roman Empire; rise of Prussia-Austria.

  • Oliver Cromwell

  • Thomas Hobbes

    Writes Leviathan -- defends absolute monarchy.

  • Charles I

    Restores the monarchy in England.

  • Louis XIV Sole Ruler

    Sun king --- Versailles -- Intended wars cost $$$

  • Margaret Cavendish is Published

  • Peter the Great

  • Revoke Edict of Nantes

  • Newton is Published

  • Glorious Revolution

    William of Orange and Mary establish a constitiutional monarchy.

  • Bill of Rights

  • War Breaks Out (again)

    This time between Russia and Sweden.

  • War of Spanish Succession

    Louis XIV's war

  • Union of Scotland and England

  • Pragmatic Sanction

    Charles IV - Maria Theresa will take the Austrian throne after his death.

  • Treaty of Utrecht

  • Maria Theresa

    Becomes leader of Austria.