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Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
Griffen's timeline
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Period: Jan 1, 1500 to Dec 31, 1543
Nicolaus Copernicus
He began the revolution in astronomy by publishing his treatise On The Revolution of the Celestial Spheres -
Period: Jan 1, 1533 to
Michel de Montaigne
A French Magistrate who resigned his office in the midst of the wars of religion to write about the need for tolerance and open-mindedness. He was a Catholic -
Period: Jan 1, 1555 to
Peace of Augsburg
Granted each ruler the right to determine the religion of his territory -
Period: Jan 1, 1556 to
Philip the 2nd
King of Spain and the most powerful ruler in Europe he reigned over the Western Habsburg lands and all of the Spanish colonies recenty settled in the New World -
Period: Jan 1, 1558 to
Queen Elizabeth the 1st
English Queen who oversaw the return of the Protestant Anglican Church and in 1588 successfully defended her kingdom against the Spanish Armada -
Period: Jan 1, 1562 to
French Wars of Religion
Wars fought in France between differnet Calvinists and Catholics -
Period: Jan 1, 1566 to Dec 31, 1566
Revolt of Calvinists in the Netherlands against Spain begins
Calvinists revolted because they were tired of having other relgions boss them around and they joined with the Holy Roman Empire to drive out the Spanish from the Netherlands and reclaim it -
Period: Jan 1, 1569 to Dec 31, 1569
Formation of commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania
Poland and Lithuania came together as one region ruled by a monarchy -
Period: Jan 1, 1571 to Dec 31, 1571
Battle of Lepanto
Lepanto is a site off the Greek coast where in 1571 the allied Catholic forces of Spain's king of Philip the 2, Venice and the papacy defeated the Ottoman Turks in a great sea battle, the victory gave the Christian powers control of the mediterranean -
Aug 24, 1572
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
It was a massacre by the Catholics on the Calvinists -
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English defeat of the Spanish Armada
Philip 2 sent his armada of 130 ships was defeated. Protestants throughout europe rejoiced while Philip and Catholic Spain suffered a crushing blow -
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Edict of Nantes
the decree issues by French king Henry the 4th granted the Huguenots a large measure of religious toleration -
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William Shakespeare's Hamlet
William Shakespeare wrote Hamlet -
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Thirty Years War
It was a religious war between Protestants and Catholics throughout central Europe -
Protestant's throw 2 Catholic Deputies out the window
Protestant's were protesting the Holy Roman Empire's attempts to curtail their religious freedoms. So on this day they threw two Catholic Deputies out the window of the Royal Castle in Prague -
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Hugo Grotious
Hugo publishes the Laws of War and Peace -
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Galileo Galilei
Galileo is forced to recant his support of heliocentrism -
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French join 30 years war
The French join the 30 years war by declaring war on Spain -
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Frederick William of Hohenzollern
The Great Elector of Brandenburg-Prussia who brought his nation through the end of the 30 years war and then succeeded in wielding his scattered lands into an absolutist state -
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Civil War
A Civil War between King Charles 1 and Parliament in England -
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King Louis 14th
He personified the absolutist ruler, in theory he shared his power with no one, but in practice he had to gain the cooperation of nobles, local officials and even the ordinary subjects who manned his armies and paid his taxes -
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Peace of Westphalia
The settlement of the Thirty Years War it established enduring relgious divisions in the Holy Roman Empire by which Lutheranism would dominate in the north, Calvinism in the area of the Rhine River, and Catholicism in the south -
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The Fronde
The Fronde were a series of revolts, came from the word for a child's slingshot, the term was used by critics to signify that the revolts were mere child's play -
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King of Poland-Lithuania
Ukrainian Cossack warriors rebel against the King of Poland-Lithuania -
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Spain
Spain formally recognizes independence of the Dutch Republic -
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Russia
Russia has a new legal code that assigns all to a hereditary class -
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Charles 1
Execution of Charles 1 of England -
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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes publishes Leviathan -
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England
Monarch is restored in England -
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Barbados
Barbados sets up a slave code -
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Stenka Razin
The head of a powerful band of pirates and outlaws in Southern Russia who in 1667 led a rebellion that promised peasants liberation from noble landowners and officials, Razin was captured by the tsar's army in 1671 and publicly executed in Moscow -
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Louis 14
Louis 14 begins the first of many wars that continue throughout his reign -
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Louis 14th visits the Royal Tapestry Workshop
Louis visits the workshop that he bought in 1662, the artisans scramble to show him the luxury objects they manufacture. -
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Madame de Lafayette
Madame de Lafayette anonymously publishes her novel The Princess of Cléves -
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Austrian Habsburgs
Austrian Habsburgs breaks the Turkish siege of Vienna -
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Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
Louis 14th decided to eliminate the rights of calvinists granted in the edict of 1598, He baned all Calvinists public activites and forced those who refused to embrace the state religion to flee -
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Glorious Revolution
The events of 1688 when Tories and Whigs replaced England's monarch James 2 with his Protestant daughter , Mary, her husband, Dutch Ruler William of Orange, William and Mary agreed to a Bill of Rights that guaranteed rights to Parliament -
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Parliament
Parliament desposes James 2 and invites his daughter, Mary, and her husband, William of Orange to take the throne -
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William Prince of Orange
Dutch ruler who, with his Protestant wife Mary daughter of James 2nd ruled England after the Glorious Revolution of 1688 -
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John Locke
John Locke publishes Two Treatises of Government and Essay Concerning Human Understanding