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Gutenberg Printing press was the first major printing press used to make the gutenberg bible and spread information -
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So basically the ottomans came in and killed all of the byzantine guys this caused all of the roman and greek works to be transported to italy and helped to start the renaissance -
Started after the war of roses. Ending after the death of Queen Elizabeth the first when she had no heirs to the Throne.
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Columbus gains permission from Spain to go sail. they are trying to find India but instead find Cuba and the rest of the Americas.
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The Spanish finished there conquest of ending all muslim activity in the Iberian area
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The Catholic King Ferdinand and Queen isabella order that all unconverted Jews must leave before July 31st
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Michelangelo finishes his famous artwork in the Sistine chapel
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Martin Luther Nailed his 95 thesis To the door of his church citing many things against the Catholic church.
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Luther went to the diet of worms and basically said he wasn't going to take back what he said, He was excommunicated and Prince Fredrick hid him away supporting his right to speech.
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In the book The Prince by Machiavelli he notes that a ruler should do what is in the best interest to keep the citizens of his or her kingdom happy and controlled. a good example of this is with France when Henry IV converted to Catholicism to unite a country destroyed by many religious wars
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This act made Henry VIII the supreme ruler of the English church creating the Anglican church stepping away from Catholicism.
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Was a major path toward understanding how the solar system worked
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Catholic Counter reformation that rejected Protestantism and destroyed any chance at a united church. it also cemented the Catholics churches authority Specifically the Pope's power
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Allows the German princes of the HRE to decide the religion of his state
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On this celebratory day hundreds of french Huguenots were slaughtered for their faith
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The war of the three Henry's was literally a war against the three Henry's. The Huguenot King won known as Henry IV of Navarre
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England under Queen Elizabeth I rule Defeated the Spanish armada. securing a major victory
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This allowed the Huguenots to practice Calvinism anywhere in France BUT Paris.
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So some Catholic guys came over to Prague and the protestants did not agree with them at all. so the Catholics got tossed out the window. FIrst if the behomeian revolt. then the Danish revolt. then the swedish guys come in. and finally the french decide that they hate the HRE so much that they attack them to. thfe pecase of Westphalia gives the protestents some rights and says that they will be left alone.1
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The royalists vs the parlamentarians. ending with the execution of Charles I
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Louis XIV builds the Versailles palace. he sends all the nobles over there, giving them jobs to keep em busy
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King James goes Bye bye William and Mary are here now
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Limits the power of the monarchy. establishes constitutional monarchy
Locke's two treatises on government published -
the Spanish stop fighting for more land. Phillip V is king now
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She is the only female ruler of the Hapsburg empire. The Austrian war of succession is launched trying to rid of her
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Diderot works with some people and gets his encyclopedia Published
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a war involving Prussia, France, Maria Theresa, and George III
Treaty of Paris ends the war. -
Great Britain starts to industrialize.
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Horsey fun. was enlightened friends with denis diderot
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Economic deprivation and Catherine's forcefulness of Christianity made pugachev grow even greater traction. the rebellion was CRUSHED
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The Americans Decide that they don't like being ruled by a country thousands of miles away from them. so they revolt and with the help of the Spanish and french they win. It is inspired with enlightend ideas like Freedom of speech and liberty for all
Adam Smith published "on the wealth of nations" -
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette are under control when it starts. Declaration of the rights of man and citizen, the storming of the bastille, and the national assembly.
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The Haitians, an island made up of mostly slaves rebels against the french. they defeat them and secure independence
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Robespierre goes bat crap crazy, killing anyone he thinks could be trying to betray him. Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette are executed
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So Napoleon out of no where takes control of France. he ends the french revolution and begins the consulate system. (he is madly in love with the Roman empires way of doing things so that's kind of what's going on here)
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He says french instead of France to signify that France is nothing without the people (enlightened ideals)
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the holy Roman empire dies with a whimper
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Napoleon finally lost :(