9-Weeks Timeline

  • Jan 1, 1419

    Prince Henry’s School founded

  • Period: Jan 1, 1453 to

    The Renaissance

  • May 29, 1453

    Fall of Constantinople

  • Period: Jan 1, 1481 to Jan 1, 1566

    Peak of Ottoman Empire

    1481–1566
  • Jan 1, 1492

    Tobacco introduced to Europe

  • Oct 12, 1492

    Columbus discovers America

  • May 1, 1498

    Vasco de Gama finds water route around the tip of Africa

  • Jan 1, 1509

    Erasmus’ Praise of Folly

  • Jan 1, 1517

    Mona Lisa finished

  • Jan 1, 1517

    95 theses

  • Jan 1, 1519

    Magellan circumnavigates the globe

  • Jan 1, 1526

    Start of Mughal Empire

  • Jan 1, 1530

    Copernicus’ Heliocentric theory published

  • Period: Jan 1, 1532 to Jan 1, 1572

    Cortez conquers the Aztecs

  • Jan 1, 1534

    Anglican Church started

  • Jan 1, 1545

    Council of Trent

  • Defeat of the Spanish Armada

  • Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

  • Galileo’s first telescope

  • William Harvey discovered circulation of bolld

  • Period: to

    30 years war

  • Period: to

    Taj Mahal built

  • Descartes’ Discourse on Method

  • Newton’s Laws of gravity