European History Timeline

By ngupta
  • Period: Jan 1, 1266 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, 1400 to Jan 1, 1500

    Age of Portuguese Exploration and Expansion

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

    Northern Renaissance

  • 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, 1457 to Jan 1, 1509

    Henry VII

  • 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, 1520

    Raphael

  • 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, 1547

    Henry VIII

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

    Ignatius of Loyola

  • Jan 1, 1492

    3Spain3 (Granada conquered, Columbus, Expulsion of Jews)

  • Period: Jan 1, 1492 to

    Age of Spanish Exploration and Expansion

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

    Francis I

  • Period: Jan 1, 1500 to

    Reformation

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

    Charles V

  • Period: Jan 1, 1500 to

    Growth of Lutheranism

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

    Calvin

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

    "The School of Athens"

  • Jan 1, 1513

    The Prince

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

    Teresa of Avila

  • Jan 1, 1517

    95 Theses

  • Period: Jan 1, 1521 to Jan 1, 1559

    French Invades Italy

  • Period: Sep 26, 1534 to

    Growth of Calvinism

  • Jan 1, 1543

    Copernicus' On the Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies

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

    Council of Trent

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

    Catholic Reformation/Counter-Reformation

  • Jan 1, 1555

    Peace of Ausburg

  • Jan 1, 1555

    Abdication of Charles V

  • Defeat of Spanish Armada

  • Edict of Nantes passed by Henry IV

  • Elizabeth I of England died

  • Beginnning of the 30 Years' War

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