Timeline

  • Prince Henry the Navigator
    1415

    Prince Henry the Navigator

    he sponsor many exploratory sea voyages. In 1415, his ships reached the Canary Islands, which had already been claimed by Spain.
  • Johannes Gutenberg
    1439

    Johannes Gutenberg

    Invented movable type printing press initiated nothing less than a revolution in print technology
  • Period: 1457 to 1509

    Henry Vll

    The king of england
  • Christopher Columbus
    1492

    Christopher Columbus

    discovers the new world
  • Vasco Da Gama
    1497

    Vasco Da Gama

    he was appointed to command an expedition equipped by the Portuguese government, whose intention was to find a maritime route to the East.
  • Da Vinci paint the Last Supper
    1498

    Da Vinci paint the Last Supper

    paints men around a dinner table
  • Michelangelo makes the Pieta
    1499

    Michelangelo makes the Pieta

    a woman holding a man
  • Michelangelo makes the statue of David
    1504

    Michelangelo makes the statue of David

    A naked man
  • Da Vinci makes the Mona Lisa
    1508

    Da Vinci makes the Mona Lisa

    a portrait of a woman
  • Erasmus
    1516

    Erasmus

    Erasmus came up with a heavily explained edition of the New Testament through,
  • The 95 theses
    1517

    The 95 theses

    questions of indulgences in latin
  • Hernan Cortez
    1518

    Hernan Cortez

    he set off to explore Mexico
  • Ferdinand Magellan
    1519

    Ferdinand Magellan

    set out from Spain with a fleet of five ships to discover a western sea route to the Spice Islands.
  • Francisco Pizarro
    1532

    Francisco Pizarro

    Pizarro and his brothers conquered Peru
  • Period: 1533 to 1564

    Queen Elizabeth

    takes the throne of England
  • Jaques Cartier
    1534

    Jaques Cartier

    was sent by King Francis I to the New World in search of riches and a new route to Asia in 1534. His exploration of the St. Lawrence River allowed France to lay claim to lands that would become Canada.
  • Francis Drake
    1567

    Francis Drake

    Drake made one of the first English slaving voyages as part of a fleet led by his cousin John Hawkins, bringing African slaves to work in the 'New World'
  • Galileo

    Galileo

    first telescope modeled after telescopes produced in other parts of Europe that could magnify objects three times.
  • Johannes Kepler

    Johannes Kepler

    discovered the first two laws of planetary motion in 1609 and the third law in 1618
  • Period: to

    Thirty Years War

    fighting for thirty years
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    Luis XIV

    The reign of France’s Louis XIV, known as the Sun King, lasted for 72 years, longer than that of any other known European sovereign.
  • Treaty of Westphalia

    Treaty of Westphalia

    treaty that ended the Thirty Years War
  • Thomas Hobbes

    Thomas Hobbes

    wrote the leviathan
  • Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton

    discovered the laws of motion
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    William and Mary

    take the throne
  • Period: to

    Peter the Great

    king of Prussia
  • Montesquieu

    Montesquieu

    he wrote the spirit of laws
  • Period: to

    Louis XVI

    Louis XVI was the last king of France in the line of Bourbon monarchs preceding the French Revolution of 1789. He was executed for treason by guillotine in 1793
  • Napolean

    Napolean

    battle at waterloo