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Jan 1, 1300
The Renaissance
mounth and date is not accuarte but year is accurate important turning point in Western thinking and cultural tradition. All of these changes centered on the idea of Humanism -- in which, people became less "God Centered" and more "Human-centered". -
Jan 1, 1418
Prince Henry's school of navigation founded
date and mont inaccurate but month accurate first school for oceanic navigation along with an astronomical observatory at Sagres, Portugal -
May 29, 1453
Fall of constantinople
imporant because it was the end of the Byzantine Empire, and the islamic armies spreaded into Europe from Asia for the first time. -
Jan 1, 1492
Columbus discovers America
date and month inaccurate but year is accurate founded the new world and put in record. -
Jun 7, 1494
treaty of tordesillas
The Treaty of Tordesillas: Resolving “a Certain Controversy” over Land in the Americas -
Jan 1, 1497
Vasco de Gama finds water route around the tip of Africa
date and month is inaccurate but year is accurate. discovered a new route to India and the cargo on his return was worth 60 times the cost of the voyage -
Nov 16, 1511
Erasmus’ Praise of Folly
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The Praise of Folly has long been famous as the best-known work of the greatest of the Renaissance humanists, Erasmus of Rotterdam. It is a fantasy which starts off as a learned frivolity but turns into a full-scale ironic encomium after the manner of the Greek satirist Lucian, the first and in its way the finest example of a new form of Renaissance satire. -
Oct 31, 1517
95 Theses
written by Martin Luther in 1517, are considered by historians and theologians as the beginning of the Protestant Reformation. The theological debate they began is the beginning of Lutheran, Anabaptist and Reformed theology within the Christian religion. As an expression of his displeasure with the church, Luther nailed this document to the door of Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany. -
Nov 1, 1517
Mona Lisa finished
date and month is inacurate but year is accurate It is famoush because her smile -
Jan 1, 1520
Peak of Ottoman emprie
Month and Date inacuate but year is accurate Their peak because they expanded to cover the Balkans and Hungary, and reached the gates of Vienna. -
Jan 1, 1521
Cortez conquers the Aztecs
Date and month is not accuarte but year is accurate important becuase he concquered the aztec empire which is now called Mexico for Spain -
Jan 1, 1522
Magellan circumnavigates the globe
date and month is inacurate but year is accurate important because Magellan is the first person to circumnavigate the globe -
Jan 1, 1526
start of mughal empire
month and date is inacurate but year is acurate Significance was that they incorporated their new Indian territory with the Muslim empires of the Mideast, and those had trade with the Chinese Empire, so trade could flow through all Eurasia, from China, through India to the Mideast to the Mediterranean. -
Jun 26, 1541
pizarro conquered the inca empire
important concqured all of inca empires -
Jan 1, 1543
Copernicus’ Heliocentric theory published
Date and month is inaccurate but year is accurate was important for scientist because we thought that the earth was the center of the universe but then Copernicus made a theory that the sun was the center. -
Jan 1, 1545
Council of Trent
Date and month is not accurate but year is accurate important for its sweeping decrees on self-reform and for its dogmatic definitions that clarified virtually every doctrine contested by the Protestants. -
Nov 16, 1578
William Harvey discovered circulation of blood
date and month is not accurate but year is accurate help cured many diseases and helped understand the body -
Defeat of the Spanish Armada
destroyed Spanish domination of the seas. The nationalism that the victory inspired also inspired a new wave of colonies in the New World. -
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
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based on true story it's a juicy subject matter for plays. Second, and almost as simply, there was a long tradition of writing tragedies about the upper classes—think of Hamlet, who is a prince, and Lear, who is a king. There are, however, two more likely reasons. One is that Shakespeare invented very few of his plots, working instead from fairly known source works or historical stories -
Galileo’s first telescope
Date and month is not accurate but year is accurate let galieo observe phases of Venus -
30 years war
date and month not accurate but year is accurate marked a fundamental turning point of Austrian Habsburgs, previously with Spanish cousins they hoped to be united -
Discartes’ Discourse on Method
Date and month is not accurate but year is accurate One of Descartes's most significant contributions to the scientific revolution is his conception of sensory experience, imagination, and will as being just as much subjective mental phenomena as reason and understanding. His systematic doubting questions how it is that we can be certain about what we perceive. Descartes draws a sharp distinction between what our senses report to us and what is "out there." -
Taj Mahal built
Date and month is not accurate but year is accurate made for his wife as a tomb, she died giving birth. the building combinded Indian, Persian and islamic influences -
Newton’s Laws of gravity
Date and month is not accurate but year is accurate Newton discovered that everything on earth is held down by gravity that is why if you throw something up in the air, it won't keep going up. -
Anglican church
date and month is not accurate but year is accurate King Henry viii made it becuase the Catholic Church would not let him get a divorce. King Henry viii wanted to divorce becuase his wife could not make a boy. -
Tobacco introduced to Europe
Became really famous and got nicknamed the cash crop