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John Hus was burned at the stake for being a dissenter of the Catholic Church
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Prince Henry of Portugal founded the first school of navigation, In this school, people were trained in nagivation, map-making, and science, in order to sail down the west of Africa.
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The printing press was invented by Johann Gutenberg, this invention spread the protestant reformantion movement.
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Christopher Columbus's first voyage was sponsored by Spain to sail west to reach Asia. Instead of reaching Asia he discovered the new world.
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Leonardo da Vinci started painting the Last Supper in 1495 and finished in 1498.
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Secularism was formed during the Italian renaissance, which was the a new idea of art.
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He writes that he was on the road from Italy to England and, rather than waste his time with idle chatter and gossip, he preferred to muse upon his friendship with More. He then decided that he would occupy his time writing a praise of folly.
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John Calvin created predistination which said that God had already chosen who he wanted to go to heaven and nothing could change that.
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Martin Luther wrote the 95 theses which led to the protestant reformation.
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The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of people from Africa were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade.
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Cortes (one of the most well know Spanish conquistadors) conquers the Aztecs, this starts the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
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Ferdidnand Magellan was a portuguese explorere who was the first man to circumnavigate the world, it was orginnally planned as an expidition to the East Indies
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Pizarro conquered the Incas which led to the spread of disease throughout the civilization
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King Henry VIII broke from the Catholic Church in Rome and divorced his wife.
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The first European explorer known to have sailed up the St. Lawrence River itself was Jacques Cartier, which led the the French claim to Cananda.
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Nicolaus Copernicus created the heliocentric theory which said the sun was the central point while the earth revolved around it.
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Queen Elizabeth was the head of the Anglican church and restored protestantism in England
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Catholic folloewrs met at the Council of Trent to stop the protestant and start a Catholic reformation.
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King Sebastian of Portugal issued a decree opening up trade to India to any private Portuguese national.
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Queen Elizibeth I defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588
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He was the first known to describe completely and in detail the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped to the brain and body by the heart.
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The Thirty Years war was faught in Northern Europe. It was between the Protestants and the Catholic over the churches.
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Johannes Kepler discovered planetary motion which furthered the theory of planets orbiting the sun.
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Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642) lived in Italy. He used the newly-invented telescope to make his own observations.
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Oliver Cromwelll won the English Civil war and executes Charles I.
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Louis XIV built the Palace of Versailles to hold all the royal and wealthy people of France, it was a sign of power.
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The Edict of Nantes granted Huguenots the rights to practice their religion without persecution. Louis XIV revoked this right which caused many Huguenots to leave.
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William III and Mary II ruled England after the Glorious Revolution which was also known as the overthrow of King James II of England.
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John Locke wrote the Two Treaties on Government which attacked patriachalism and outlines Locke's ideas for a more civilized society.
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Peter the Great westernized Russia in immitation of Western Europe which greatly improved their economy.
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Montesquieu wrote the Spirit of Laws which had many points among the most important was respect for the role of history and climate in shaping a nation's political structure.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau was the author of the Social Contract which argues that government attains its right to exist and to govern by “the consent of the governed.”
