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Prince Henry the Navigator is born. He will eventually start start his School of Navigation
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He moved the capital of China from Nanjing to Beijing. He also reopened the Grand Canal of China.
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Zheng He goes on his virst voyage. It lasts for about 2 years.
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The printing press made it easier to make multiple copies of books. It made books cheaper and more people will be able to read
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David is the first nude male sculpture. David is made of bronze
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The Hundred Years' War finally ends since its start at 1337. I'm pretty sure that that was more than 100 years.
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Constantinople falls to the Ottoman Turks. It will be renamed to Istanbul.
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Bartolomeu Dias's crew almost goes on a mutiny. They gave him 3 days to get somewhere or they would turn around and go home. On the third day, they finally reached the Cape of Good Hope
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This war has lasted for 10 years and is finally over. Now Ferdinand and Isabella have money to spare for Christopher Columbus to go on his voyage.
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Rodrigo De Triana, a lookout on the Pinta, was the first to see land. He landed at the Indies
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Spain and Portugal agree to the Treaty of Tordesillas. This will decide which country can have what lands.
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Amerigo Vespucci goesdown the coast of the Americas and maps it. The map looks horrible, but for now that is all that they have.
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Vasco da Gama lands in India. He arrives in Calicut, India
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Leonardo da Vinci starts painting the Mona Lisa. This is one of the greatest paintings in history.
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Nicolaus Copernicus will eventually discover the heliocentric theory. He will not publish his ideas until the end of his life because he doesn't want to persecuted by the Church.
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The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is a cornerstone of high renaissance art. The ceiling's various painted elements form part of a larger scheme of decoration within the chapel.
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The School of Athens is one of Raphael's most famous paintings. The School of Athens depicts many important people in history.
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He made Rhe Prince as a treatise for a noble friend of his. It was published as a book in 1532, 5 years after his death.
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Martin Luther posted his 95 thesis on a church door. He started the reformation
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When they see the Aztecs they go into their city. They then conquer the Aztecs
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When they meet, Pizarro goes into his room with a horse. The horse is in Atahualpa's face and he doesn't move at all.
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Ivan the Terrible becomes King of Russia at age 3. His time on the throne is divided into 2 periods (his good period and bad period).
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He was the first European to explore Canada. Then he claimed it for France
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She was one of Henry VIII's many wives. He accused her of cheating and then executed her.
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Edward VI became the King of England at the age of 9. He is pretty young to be King if you ask me.
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The Jesuits were a major component to the counter-reformation. He decided that the new order of priests would not be admitted into the structure of the catholic church.
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The Church never accepted the ideas of Copernicus or Brahe so Kepler mathematically proved them right.
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Mary I returned England to Catholicism. She was nicknamed Bloody Mary for all of her executions.
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She used being single against other kings. She died of blood poisoning on March 24, 1603.
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After his wife dies he starts blaming people and arresting people for no reason. He gets so paranoid that he even kills his own son and only heir to the throne.
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After killing who he thought was an intruder Ivan the Terrible reallizes that he has just killed his own son. Now he has no heir to the throne.
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The English defeat the Spanish at the Engish Channel. This marks the start for countries competing to be the top power in the world
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The East India Company, originally chartered as the Governor and Company of Merchants of London trading into the East Indies, and often called the Honourable East India Company, was an English.
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The Dutch East India Company was a chartered company established in 1602, when the States-General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out colonial activities in Asia.
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He and his crew were aboard the Half-Moon. When he went on his second voyage he was never to be seen again
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William Shakespeare made many full length plays and hundreds of sonnets. He also made up words, and a lot of them.
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This war was between countries in Central Europe and The Hapsburgs. It was based on the triumphs and defeats of The Hapsburgs.
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The Duke of York arrives with a lot of ships. Without a single shot fired the people in New Netherlands surrendered
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The English Civil War is fought between Charles I and the Royalists and Oliver Cromwell and the puritans. It ends with the puritans capturing and executing Charles I.
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During Louis XIV's reign he will build The Castle of Versailles. He will also make a lot of people angry
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La Salle gets to the mouth of the Mississippi river. When he gets there he claims it all for France
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During the English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell leads the puritans and Charles I leads the royalists. The puritans capture Charles I and execute him.
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The social contract is an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits.
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Louis XIV has already been King of France for 18 years. Now he decides to build a palace.
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William of Orange leads his fleet to England. Then the king flees and William takes the throne without a fight.
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First, William and Mary go to England to overthrow James, then James flees and William and Mary take the throne. After that, William and Mary sign the bill of rights which gives people rights that can not be taken away.
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When he becomes sole Czar he tries to get Russia away from the Feudalistic system. He also tries to westernize Russia.
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After Peter the Great becomes king he tries to westernze Europe. That is his great embassy.
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This will help people tell what the temperature.
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Maria Theresa inherits the throne ofter Charles VI dies.
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In his way of measuring temperature, 0 is freezing point of water and 100 is the boiling point of water.
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The separation of powers is a model for the governance of a state (or who controls the state).
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An Encyclopedia is a book or set of books giving information on many subjects or on many aspects of one subject and typically arranged alphabetically.
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The Seven Years' War was between France and Great Britain. France lost
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Frederick the Great was the King of Prussia. The Seven Years' War was fought around the globe over various European territories.
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This will make it easier for her to do things now that their is no rebellion.
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This is important because it will annoy Britain and make it easier to get our independence.
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This is important because it will lead to further investigations on this element and other elements in the air.
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This document declared independence from Britain.
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This will end the American Revolution and give us independence.
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This is headed by George Washington to revise the articles of confederation.
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Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Don Giovanni is based on the legends of Don Juan, a fictional libertine and seducer.
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Conflicts between white colonists and black slaves were common. A lot of slaves died
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After creating 9 symphonies he is dead.
