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Laid basis for english common law
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Visconti is the family name of two important Italian noble dynasties of the Middle Ages
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An epic poem about the satges of purgatory considered one of the bes pieces of renaissance
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Bubonic Plague. In the early 1330s an outbreak of deadly bubonic plague occurred in China. The bubonic plague mainly affects rodents, but fleas can transmit the disease to people. Once people are infected, they infect others very rapidly. Affected peasents and fuedal system. Peasents ask for more money nobles have to give
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The Hundred Years' War was a series of conflicts waged by the House of Plantagenet, rulers of the Kingdom of England, against the House of Valois, rulers of the Kingdom of France, for control of the latter kingdom. Each side drew many allies into the war. It was one of the most notable conflicts of the Middle Ages, in which five generations of kings from two rival dynasties fought for the throne of the largest kingdom in Western Europe.
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This was a time in which there were 3 popes this occured due to location issues and led to political conflict. It weakend the influence and power of the church extremly.
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Most of reign defending against rebelions
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was the first of the Medici political dynasty, de facto rulers of Florence during much of the Italian Renaissance; also known as "Cosimo 'the Elder' His power derived from his great wealth as a banker, and he was a great patron of learning, the arts and architecture
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Italian banking family, political dynasty and later royal house that first began to gather prominence under Cosimo de' Medici in the Republic of Florence during the late 14th century
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Lorenzo de' Medici was an Italian statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic, who was one of the most powerful and enthusiastic patrons of the Renaissance
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Sforza was a ruling family of Renaissance Italy, based in Milan. They acquired the Duchy of Milan from the previously ruling Visconti family in the mid-15th century, and lost it to the Spanish Habsburgs about a century later.
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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, more commonly Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian renaissance manwh was an inventor painter, sculptier, architecht, scientist, mathematician, engineeri, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, and history.
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Duke of Milan. Patron of da Vinci and many other artists
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A peace between Milan, Naples, and Florence.The Treaty of Lodi established permanent boundaries between Milanese and Venetian territories in Northern Italy.The Treaty was revoked in 1483 when Venice and the Pope fought a war against Milan.
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The Wars of the Roses were a series of dynastic wars for the throne of England. They were fought between supporters of two rival branches of the royal House of Plantagenet, the Houses of Lancaster and York.
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Michelangelo was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance. Artist of Chiaoscuro and Linear Perspective
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Sir Thomas More, venerated by Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist.
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Martin Luther was a German friar, priest, professor of theology, and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation. Initially an Augustinian friar, Luther came to reject several teachings and practices of the Roman Catholic Church
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Huldrych Zwingli or Ulrich Zwingli was a leader of the Reformation in Switzerland.
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John Calvin was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism
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A book written on how a king/prince should treat his people
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Martin Luther nailed a copy of these to a church door. Were compliants to the church
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The Protestant Reformation was the 16th-century religious, political, intellectual and cultural upheaval that splintered Catholic Europe, setting in place the structures and beliefs that would define the continent in the modern era
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Ordered Bartholomew's day massacre was queen of france married Henery at the age of 14
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An imperial council that was convened to decide the fate of Martin Luther. It was held in Worms, Germany.
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The Reformation Parliament was so-called because it was the English Parliame that passed and enabled the major pieces of legislation leading to the English Reformation
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One of the Roman Catholic Church's most important ecumenical councils. Prompted by the Protestant Reformation, it has been described as the embodiment of the Counter Reformation.
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The Diet of Augsburg were the meetings of the Imperial Diet of the Holy Roman Empire in the German city of Augsburg.
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1562 Huguenots numbers peak about 2 million 1789 gain equal rights as citizens
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Murder of French Protestants, or Huguenots, that began in Paris ordered by Catherine de' Medici. On the life of the Huguenot leader Admiral Coligny. Number of dead vary from 5,000 to 30,000
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The Edict of Beaulieu was promulgated from Beaulieu-lès-Loches by Henry III of France, who was pressured by Alençon's support of the Protestant army besieging Paris that spring
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Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from A Coruña under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia with the purpose of escorting an army from Flanders to invade England. Small English Ships won. Many Spanish shipa lost in storm
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Henry IV of France, granted the Calvinist Protestants of France (also known as Huguenots) substantial rights in the nation, which was, at the time, still considered essentially Catholic.
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The Thirty Years' War was a series of wars in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648. It was one of the longest, most destructive conflicts in European history. Initially a war between Protestant and Catholic states in the fragmenting Holy Roman Empire, it gradually developed into a more general conflict involving most of the great powers of Europe, becoming less about religion and more a continuation of the France–Habsburg rivalry for European political pre-eminence.
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The later revocation of the Edict of Nantes in October 1685 by Louis XIV, the grandson of Henry IV, drove an exodus of Protestants, and increased the hostility of Protestant nations bordering France.
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The Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England (James VII of Scotland and James II of Ireland) by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau
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The Seven Years' War was fought between 1755 and 1764, the main conflict occurring in the seven-year period from 1756 to 1763. It involved most of the great powers of the time and affected Europe, North America, Central America, West Africa, India, and the Philippines. Considered as the greatest European war since the Thirty Years War of the 17th-century, it once again split Europe into two coalitions, each led by Great Britain and France, respectively. For the first time, aiming to curtail Brit
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French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars. As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 until 1814, and again in 1815. Napoleon dominated European affairs for over a decade while leading France against a series of coalitions in the Napoleonic Wars.
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Pugachev's Rebellion (or the Cossack Rebellion) of was the principal revolt in a series of popular rebellions that took place in Russia after Catherine II seized power in 1762. It began as an organized insurrection of Yaik Cossacks headed by Yemelyan Pugachev, a disaffected ex-lieutenant of the Russian Imperial army, against a background of profound peasant unrest and war with the Ottoman Empire. After the initial success, Pugachev assumed leadership of an alternative government.
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Napoleon returned from exile on Elba. He was there for 100 days before returning. He briefly took over paris.
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Introduced wide-ranging changes to the electoral system of England and Wales. According to its preamble, the Act was designed to "take effectual Measures for correcting divers Abuses that have long prevailed in the Choice of Members to serve in the Commons House of Parliament".
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In 1833 the Government passed a Factory Act to improve conditions for children working in factories. Young children were working very long hours in workplaces where conditions were often terrible
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Before the Act, only one million of the seven million adult males in England and Wales could vote; the Act immediately doubled that number. Moreover, by the end of 1868 all male heads of household were enfranchised as a result of the end of compounding of rents. However, the Act introduced only a negligible redistribution of seats.
