Post-holiday break timeline By hcps-atwalmk 1350 The Renaissance period generally begins 1419 Prince Henry's navigation school founded 1453 Fall of Constantinople 1492 Columbus discovers America 1497 Vasco de Gama finds water route around the tip of Africa (Cape of Good Hope) 1503 Mona Lisa finished 1504 Michelangelo's David 1511 Erasmus' Praise of Folly published 1517 95 Theses nailed to door of Wittenburg Church 1519 Magellan circumnavigates the globe 1520 Peak of Ottoman Empire 1521 Cortez conquers the Aztecs 1521 Martin Luther put on trial at the Diet of Worms 1526 Start of Mughal Empire 1528 Tobacco introduced to Europe 1532 Pissarro conqueror's the Incas 1534 Anglican Church started 1543 Copernicus' Heliocentric theory published 1545 Council of Trent 1588 Defeat of Spanish Armada 1599 Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar published 1609 Galileo's first telescope built 1618 William Harvey discovered circulation of blood 1632 Taj Mahal is built 1687 Newton's Laws of gravity published in the Principia
