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  • Guttenberg invents the printing press
    1450

    Guttenberg invents the printing press

    The printing press made newspapers cheaper, quicker, and a more efficient way to mass produce and spread information
  • Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire
    1453

    Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire

    An internal instability with civil wars, weakening tax base with the rise of nobles and serfs, and constant invasions
  • Period: 1485 to

    Reign of the Tudor Dynasty

    The creation of the Church of England and was apart of major trade and exploration
  • Columbian Exchange
    1492

    Columbian Exchange

    Global changes between the old world to the new world, population growth between Afro-Eurasia, and exchanged staple crops
  • Michelangelo completes the painting of the Sistine Chapel
    1512

    Michelangelo completes the painting of the Sistine Chapel

    Michelangelo was commissioned to paint the frescoes, which was a depiction of nine scenes from the book of Genesis. It took him 4 years to complete this project.
  • Martin Luther posts his 95 theses
    1514

    Martin Luther posts his 95 theses

    His form is criticizing the practice of selling indulgences by the catholic church, it was claimed to provide a reduction in the time spent in purgatory. The Protestant Reformation was a 16th-century religious movement that broke the authority of the Roman Catholic Church, which led to the creation of Protestant denominations
  • Luther's attendance at the Diet of Worms
    1521

    Luther's attendance at the Diet of Worms

    He defended his writings against charges of heresy. His refusal to recant his beliefs in the Diet which led to him being an outcast. The Diet of Worms is an assembly held in 1521 to address Luther's teachings which led to the event of Protestant Reformation.
  • Machiavelli's The Prince was published
    1532

    Machiavelli's The Prince was published

    His writing hoped to regain his position as a political advisor and diplomat after Prince Lorenzo de Medici came into power.
  • Act of Supremacy under Henry VIII (Anglican Church)
    1534

    Act of Supremacy under Henry VIII (Anglican Church)

    It appointed King Henry VIII the Supreme Head of the Church of England, replacing the Pope and severing England's religious ties with Rome. The church made sure that Henry VIII can divorce his wife and only allow male heirs to the throne.
  • Copernicus publishes On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
    1543

    Copernicus publishes On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

    It introduced the heliocentric model of the solar system, positioning the Sun at the center and the Earth as one of the orbiting planets. This challenged the Ptolemaic geocentric model and is considered a foundational text of the Copernican Revolution, laying the groundwork for future astronomical advances by figures like Galileo and Kepler.
  • Period: 1545 to 1563

    Council of Trent (Catholic Reformation)

    The Catholic Church's response to the Protestant Reformation, it provided a basis for a renewed version of the Church's era of reform and revival.
  • Peace of Augsburg
    1555

    Peace of Augsburg

    The treaty to stop all religion wars between Catholics and Lutherans by allowing princes to choose their state's religion under the principle Cuius regio, eius religio. Cuius regio, eius religio means "whose realm, his religion."
  • St. Bartholomew's Massacre
    1572

    St. Bartholomew's Massacre

    A targeted wave of assassinations by Catholics against Huguenots, starting in Paris spreading across France.
  • Period: to

    War of the Three Henrys

    It was a three-way war fought between the King Henry III of France, supported by the royalists and the politiques, King Henry of Navarre, later Henry IV of France, heir presumptive to the French throne and leader of the Huguenots, supported by Elizabeth I of England and the German protestant princes and Henry of Lorraine, Duke of Guise, leader of the Catholic League, funded and supported by Philip II of Spain.
  • Defeat of the Spanish Armada

    Defeat of the Spanish Armada

    Philip II asked Elizabeth I to mirage which she declined, Philip II got really mad and deiced to attack England with the Spanish armada but England had fire which easily sunk the ships and a more superior armada.
  • Edict of Nantes

    Edict of Nantes

    A law signed by Henry IV of France to grant substantial rights to Calvinists Protestants to end religious wars against the Catholics