Euro timeline By owenhelfer 1492 Columbus lands in Hispaniola 1517 Martin Luther's 95 theses 1519 Magellan circumnavigates the globe 1521 Cortez conquers the Mexica 1532 Pizarro conquers the Inca 1533 Henry VIII breaks with the Church 1533 Ivan the Terrible becomes Tsar 1541 John Calvin begins ministry in Geneva Period: 1545 to 1563 Council of Trent 1553 Mary Tudor re-establishes Catholicism in England 1555 Peace of Augsburg 1558 Queen Elizabeth is crowned 1598 Edict of Nantes Period: 1600 to 1750 Baroque period 1605 Kepler discovers first law of planetary motion 1609 Hamlet is first performed 1609 Galileo develops his first telescope 1609 Spain expels 300k muslims Period: 1618 to 1648 Thirty year's war 1633 Pope prosecutes Galileo for promoting heliocentricity 1642 Glorious Revolution in England 1643 Louis XIV is crowned in France 1685 Edict of Nantes revoked 1685 Johann Bach is born 1687 Newton publishes principles of mathematics 1689 Peter the Great becomes Tsar Period: 1700 to 1789 Rococo period 1713 1st King of Prussia 1713 Peace of Utrecht 1740 Samuel Richardson's Pamela is published 1748 Montesquieu publishes Spirit of the Laws 1751 Diderot publishes Encyclopedie 1759 Voltaire publishes Candide 1762 Rousseau publishes The Social Contract 1774 Goethe publishes The Sorrows of Young Werther 1775 American Revolution begins 1776 Paine publishes Common Sense 1776 Thomas Jefferson writes Declaration of Independence 1781 Kant publishes Critique of Pure Reason 1789 French Revolution begins