Events By usernamejosh 800 BCE The songhai empire was established in africa 105 BCE Paper was invented by China 700 Muhammad began the islamic religion 1400 Gold, god, and glory were the three main reasons for exploration 1415 Jan Huss was burned at the stake for being a heretic 1440 Gutenberg 1471 The Spanish campaign led the defeat of the Aztecs 1477 Michelangelo painted the sistine chapel 1488 Catholic monarch Ferdinand started the spanish inquisition 1492 Christopher Columbus was sponsored by Queen Isabella to sail westward to reach Asia 1498 Leonardo da Vinci painted the Last Supper 1499 Michelangelo's sculpture the Pieta Oct 31, 1517 Martin Luther nailed 95 Theses to a church door 1519 Ferdinand Magellan's crew was the first to circumnavigate the globe 1521 Hernan Cortes 1521 Pope Leo X excommunicates martin luther 1526 Mughal empire began in india 1529 King Henry VIII broke from the church in Rome and divorced his wife 1533 Elizabeth I 1534 Jacques Cartier explored the St. lawrence River to Montreal for France 1536 John Calvin 1545 Protestant 1562 The act of supremacy divided the claims of France and spain 1588 Francis Drake defeated the Spanish Armada 1598 Henry IV of France 1600 Songhai Empire began in Africa 1619 Slaves 1648 Ferdinand II got France involved in Thirty Years’ War
