Period 1 Timeline By jentamu94 1418 Prince Henry's School of Navigation 1418 Late 1300s-Cristine de Pisan-Querelle des Femmes Period: 1418 to 1648 Age of Exploration (1400s-end of 1600s) 1434 van Eyck's Arnolfini Wedding Period: 1434 to 1490 Early Renaissance (1400s-1490) 1440 Printing Press Invented 1440 Valla's Constantine Work 1440 Donatello's David Period: 1450 to 1640 Enclosure Movement Spread 1453 Ottomans capture Constantinople Period: 1479 to 1516 Ferdinand & Isabella Period: 1487 to 1641 Star Chamber Period: 1490 to 1580 Northern Renaissance (late 15th century) Period: 1490 to 1527 High Renaissance 1492 Columbus' First Voyage Jun 7, 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas Period: 1500 to 1648 Age of Absolutism (1500s-1800) Period: 1500 to 1599 16th Century Population Increase 1504 Michelangelo's David Period: 1509 to 1547 Henry VIII 1511 Raphael's School of Athens 1516 Concordat of Bologna 1516 More's Utopia Period: 1517 to 1648 Reformation Oct 31, 1517 95 Theses Period: 1520 to 1620 Mannerism Jun 6, 1527 Sack of Rome 1530 Copernicus' On the Revolutions 1532 Machiavelli's The Prince 1534 Jesuits Founded 1535 Ursulines Period: 1541 to 1549 Calvin's Geneva 1542 Start of Roman Inquisition 1542 Las Casas' Destruction of the Indies Period: 1543 to 1648 Scientific Revolution (1543-1700) Period: 1545 to 1563 Council of Trent Period: 1550 to 1643 Price Revolution 1555 Peace of Augsburg Period: 1556 to 1598 Philip II 1560 St. Teresa begins reforms Period: 1562 to 1598 French Wars of Religion Period: 1568 to 1648 Dutch Revolt 1572 St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre 1576 Bodin's Six Books of the Republic Period: 1580 to 1650 Witchcraft Accusations Peak Period: 1584 to 1648 Baroque (1584-1723) 1586 El Greco's Burial of C.O. 1590 Little Ice Age (late 16th century) 1598 Edict of Nantes Period: 1600 to 1648 Dutch Golden Age (1600-1672) 1602 Dutch East India Company 1609 Bank of Amsterdam Period: 1610 to 1643 Louis XIII (& Richelieu) 1618 Defenestration of Prague Period: 1618 to 1648 30 Years' War 1621 Bacon formalizes Sci Met 1624 Bernini's David 1628 Harvey's Discovery of Circulation 1642 Rembrandt's Night Watch Period: 1642 to 1651 English Civil War 1648 Peace of Westphalia 1650 Mid 1600s Disintegration of older, communal values