AP European History

  • Period: Jan 1, 1276 to Jan 1, 1337

    Giotto

    Italian Painter. Led the way in use of realism
  • Period: Jan 1, 1304 to Jan 1, 1374

    Petrarch

    Started idea of Humanism
  • Period: Jan 1, 1350 to Jan 1, 1550

    Italian Renaissance

  • Period: Jan 1, 1386 to Jan 1, 1466

    Donatello

    Sculptor. Used classical figures
  • Period: Jan 1, 1394 to Jan 1, 1460

    Henry the Navigator

  • Period: Jan 1, 1415 to Jan 1, 1519

    Age of Portugese Exploration and Expansion

  • Period: Jan 1, 1452 to Jan 1, 1519

    Leonardo Da Vinci

  • Jan 1, 1453

    Ottoman Takeover of Constantinople

  • Jan 1, 1455

    Gutenberg's Printing Press

  • Period: Jan 1, 1457 to Jan 1, 1509

    Henry VII

  • Period: Jan 1, 1465 to Jan 1, 1519

    Johann Tetzel

  • Period: Jan 1, 1469 to Jan 1, 1527

    Machiavelli

    Wrote "The Prince"
  • Period: Jan 1, 1475 to Sep 26, 1550

    Morthern Renaissance

  • Period: Jan 1, 1475 to Jan 1, 1564

    Michelangelo

    Created Sistine Chapel, David
  • Period: Jan 1, 1483 to Jan 1, 1520

    Raphael

    "School of Athens"
  • Period: Jan 1, 1483 to Jan 1, 1546

    Martin Luther

  • Period: Jan 1, 1484 to Jan 1, 1531

    Zwingli

    2nd most important Reformer
  • Period: Jan 1, 1491 to Jan 1, 1556

    Loyola

    Founded Jesuits
  • Jan 1, 1492

    3Spain3 (Granada Conquered, Columbus, Expulsion of Jews)

  • Jan 1, 1494

    French Invade Italy

  • Period: Jan 1, 1494 to Jan 1, 1547

    Francis I

  • Period: Jan 1, 1500 to

    Reformation

  • Period: Jan 1, 1500 to Jan 1, 1558

    Charles V

  • Period: Jan 1, 1509 to Jan 1, 1564

    John Calvin

  • Period: Jan 1, 1510 to Jan 1, 1511

    "The School of Athens"

  • Jan 1, 1513

    "The Prince"

  • Period: Jan 1, 1515 to Jan 1, 1582

    Teresa of Avila

  • Jan 1, 1517

    95 Theses

  • Period: Jan 1, 1519 to

    Age of Spanish Exploration and Expansion

  • Period: Jun 1, 1521 to Jan 1, 1555

    Growth of Lutheranism

    1521-1526: Luther writes German bible (fondation for Lutheranism)
    1555: Official Recongnition of Lutheranism
  • Period: Jan 1, 1534 to Jan 1, 1563

    Catholic Reformation/Counter-Reformation

    1534: Pope Paul III
    1563: Council of Trent
  • Period: Jan 1, 1541 to Jan 1, 1560

    Growth of Calvinism

    1541: Geneva established
    1560: John Knox persuades Scottish parliment to end papal authority
  • Jan 1, 1543

    Copernicus' "On The Spirit of Heavenly Bodies"

  • Period: Jan 1, 1545 to Jan 1, 1563

    Council of Trent

    Council of Trent
  • Jan 1, 1555

    Abdication of Charles V

  • Jan 1, 1555

    Peace of Augsburg

  • Defeat of Spanish Armada

  • Edict of Nantes passed by Henry IV

  • Elizabeth I of England Dies

  • Begining of 30 Years War

  • Charles I is executed and Cromwell came to power in England