European History Timeline

  • Period: Jan 1, 1267 to Jan 1, 1337

    Giotto

  • Period: Jan 1, 1304 to Jan 1, 1374

    Petrarch

  • Period: Jan 1, 1350 to Jan 1, 1550

    Italian Renaissance

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

    Donatello

  • Period: Jan 1, 1394 to Jan 1, 1460

    Henry the Navigator

  • Period: Jan 1, 1450 to Jan 1, 1550

    Age of Portuguese Exploration and Expansion

  • Period: Jan 1, 1450 to

    Age of Spanish Exploration and Expansion

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

    Da Vinci

  • Jan 1, 1453

    Ottoman takeover of Constantinople

  • Jan 1, 1455

    Gutenberg's Printing Press

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

    Tetzel

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

    Machiavelli

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

    Michelangelo

  • Period: Jan 1, 1483 to Jan 1, 1546

    Luther

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

    Zwingli

  • Period: Jan 1, 1491 to Jan 1, 1556

    Loyola

  • Period: Jan 1, 1491 to Jan 1, 1547

    Henry VII

  • Period: Jan 1, 1491 to Jan 1, 1547

    Henry VII

  • Jan 1, 1492

    3Spain3 (Granada conquered, Columbus, Expulsion of Jews

  • Jan 1, 1494

    French Invades Italy

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

    Francis I

  • Period: Jan 1, 1500 to

    Northern Renaissance

  • Period: Jan 1, 1500 to

    Reformation

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

    Charles V

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

    Calvin

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

    "The School of Athens

  • Period: Jan 1, 1512 to Jan 1, 1546

    Growth of Lutheranism

  • Jan 1, 1513

    The Prince

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

    Teresa of Avila

  • Jan 1, 1517

    95 Theses

  • Period: Jan 1, 1536 to

    Growth of Calvinism

  • Jan 1, 1543

    Copernicus' On the Revolution of Heavenly Bodies

  • Period: Jan 1, 1545 to

    Catholic Reformation/ Counter-Reformation

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

    Council of Trent

  • Jan 1, 1555

    Peace of Augsburg

  • Jan 1, 1556

    Abdication of Charles V

  • Defeat of the Spanish Armada

  • Edict of Nantes passed by Henry IV

  • Elizabeth I of England died

  • Beginning of the 30 Year's War

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