Modern World History - RW By westspsg 1494 Italian Wars 1517 Martin Luther Publishes 95 Theses 1521 Edict of Worms 1524 Peasant's War 1531 Swiss Civil War 1533 Anabaptists Settle in Münster 1534 Act of Supremacy in England 1535 Thomas More Executed 1536 John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion 1540 Jesuit Order Founded 1542 Start of Roman Inquisition 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus Publishes On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres 1545 Council of Trent 1555 Peace of Augsburg 1558 Reign of Elizabeth I 1560 Scotland Becomes Calvinist 1572 St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre 1598 Edict of Nantes 1620 Francis Bacon publishes Novum Organum 1632 Galileo Galilei Publishes Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems 1637 René Descartes Publishes Discourse on the Method 1651 Thomas Hobbes Publishes Leviathan 1689 John Locke Publishes Two Treatises of Government 1748 Baron de Montesquieu Publishes The Spirit of Law 1755 Jean-Jacques Rousseau Publishes Discourse on Inequality 1759 Voltaire Publishes Candide