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chapter 17

  • Period: Dec 1, 1450 to

    history

  • Johan Gutenberg invents the Printing Press
    Oct 30, 1452

    Johan Gutenberg invents the Printing Press

    The Printing Press made it faster to creat books. Because of this creation more people learned how to read and write.
  • Fall of Constantinople to the Turks
    May 29, 1453

    Fall of Constantinople to the Turks

  • The hundred years' war ends
    Oct 19, 1453

    The hundred years' war ends

    The Hundred Years' War was a long struggle between England and France over succession to the French throne. It lasted from 1337 to 1453, so it might more accurately be called the "116 Years' War."
  • Donatello creates his David statue
    Dec 13, 1466

    Donatello creates his David statue

    The statue represents the biblical hero David.Because of the nature of the hero it represented, the statue soon came to symbolize the defense of civil liberties embodied in the Republic of Florence
  • Michelangelo paints the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
    Aug 15, 1483

    Michelangelo paints the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

    The Sistine Chapel is known even today for electing a new pope. All the painting Michelangelo painted at the chapel are stories and history of the catholic church .
  • Raphael paints School of Athens
    Apr 30, 1509

    Raphael paints School of Athens

    The Stanza della Segnatura was the first of the rooms to be decorated. Raphael. The paintings became more popular over the years.
  • Leonardo Da Vinci starts the Mona Lisa
    Aug 12, 1512

    Leonardo Da Vinci starts the Mona Lisa

    The King of France bought Mona Lisa for four thousand gold crowns.
  • Machiavelli writes The Prince
    Dec 22, 1513

    Machiavelli writes The Prince

    The treatise is the most remembered of Machiavelli's works and the one most responsible for bringing the word "Machiavellian" into usage as a pejorative. Five years later Machiavelli died.
  • Martin Luther posts his 95 Thesis
    Oct 31, 1517

    Martin Luther posts his 95 Thesis

    Luther came up with 95 problems with the church.He then started the Protestant refermation.
  • Anne Boleyn is executed
    May 19, 1536

    Anne Boleyn is executed

    Henery VIII exicuted his wife. His wife allows Henery to have a son with Jane Seymore.
  • Edward VI is born
    Oct 12, 1537

    Edward VI is born

    Edward was the only son of Henry VIII born. The Anglican church became solidified.
  • Ignatius of Loyola founds the Jesuit order
    Apr 19, 1541

    Ignatius of Loyola founds the Jesuit order

    He started his own order of priests. He then refocuses the church on education.
  • Elizabeth I becomes Queen
    Nov 17, 1558

    Elizabeth I becomes Queen

    The only Anglican daughter became Queen. They began the start of the Elizabethin age.
  • William Shakespeare dies

    William Shakespeare dies

    The cause of Shakespeare's death is a mystery, but an entry in the diary of John Ward, the vicar of Holy Trinity Church in Stratford (where Shakespeare is buried), tells us that "Shakespeare, Drayton, and Ben Jonson had a merry meeting and it seems drank too hard, for Shakespeare died of a fever there contracted.