European Exploration

  • Jan 1, 1440

    Johannes Gutenburg invented the printing press

    Books were able to be published.
  • Jan 1, 1492

    Columbus lands in present day Carribeans

    The Americas were "discoverd"
  • Jan 1, 1495

    Leonardo Da Vinci began painting the Last Supper

    This comes from the Gospel accounts on the night before Christ’s death when Christ and the apostles are together in a room for his last supper with the apostales
  • Jan 1, 1503

    Martin Luther

    Martin Luther wrote the 93 theses
  • Jan 1, 1508

    Start of Michelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel

    Michelangelo begins painting the ceiling using scences from the old testiment
  • Jan 1, 1510

    Raphael paints The School of Athens

    The painting represents philosophy and includes the famous philosophers.
  • Oct 1, 1521

    Defender of the Faith

  • Jan 1, 1522

    Diet of Worms

  • Jan 1, 1522

    German Bible

    Luther works on thed German trfanslation of the bible and adds his new testiments.
  • Jan 1, 1526

    English Bible

    William Tyndale provides the english translation of the New Tedstiments
  • Jan 1, 1532

    The Medici Family

    The Medici family found out a system for the bank
  • Jan 1, 1533

    Henry the 8th became head of the English Church

    People were now allowed to divorce and remarry even though they were christians.
  • Samuel De Champlain

    Samuel De Champlain lands in present day Canada
  • Issac Newton

    Issac Newton came up with the idea of gravity