Modern European History

  • Period: Nov 22, 1350 to Nov 23, 1550

    Italian Reanaissance

  • Nov 22, 1440

    Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press

  • Period: Nov 22, 1450 to

    Overseas Expansion

  • Nov 22, 1453

    Fall of Constantinople

  • Nov 22, 1492

    Ferdnand and Isabella complete the Reconquista

  • Period: Nov 22, 1492 to Nov 23, 1503

    Voyages of Christopher Columbus

  • Period: Nov 22, 1494 to Nov 23, 1559

    The Italian Wars

    (Hapsburg-Valois)
  • Period: Nov 22, 1500 to

    Reformations and the Wars of religion

  • Period: Dec 5, 1500 to

    Witchcraft Triala

  • Nov 22, 1508

    Michaelangelo creates the sistine chapel

  • Nov 22, 1513

    Machiavelli publishes "The Prince"

  • Oct 31, 1517

    Martin Luthers 95 Thesis

  • Period: Nov 22, 1525 to

    Price Revolution

  • Nov 22, 1532

    African Slave Trade begins

  • Nov 22, 1534

    Act of Supremecy

  • Dec 5, 1543

    Scientific Revolution

    Nicolaus Copernicus publishes On the Revolutions of the heavenly Spaces
  • Period: Nov 22, 1545 to Nov 23, 1563

    Council of Trent

  • Nov 22, 1555

    Peace of Augsburg

  • Spanish Armada

  • Edict of Nantes

  • Period: to

    Expansion of state power

  • Dutch East India Company est.

  • Trial of of Galileo

  • Period: to

    English Civil War

  • Period: to

    Reign of Louis XIV

  • Rene Decartes published his discourse on methof

  • Peace of Westphalia

  • Period: to

    Agricultural revolution

  • Period: to

    Agricultural revolution

  • Thomas Hobbes publishes the Leviathen

  • Period: to

    First British Navigation Acts

  • Edict of Nantes rovoked

  • Issac Newton publishes Principal mathematica

  • Period: to

    Glorious Revolution

  • John Locke publishes Second Treatise on Government

  • Period: to

    Growth of Cottage Industry

  • Peace of Utrecht

  • Treaty Of Paris (Seven Years War)