post holiday break timeline By Maxxxxxxx 1419 Prince Henry's navigation school founded May 29, 1453 Fall Of Constantinople Period: 1490 to 1520 The Renaissance period generally begins Oct 12, 1492 Columbus discovers America 1497 Vasco de Gama finds water route 1504 Michelangelo's David 1511 The Praise of Folly Published Oct 10, 1517 Mona Lisa Finished Oct 31, 1517 95 Theses nailed to door of Wittenburg Church Sep 20, 1519 Magellan Circumnavigates the globe 1521 Cortez conquers the Aztecs Apr 17, 1521 Marten Luther's trial at the Diet of Worms 1526 Start of the Mughal Empire 1528 Tobacco introduced to Europe 1532 Pissarro conquered the Incans 1534 Anglican Church started 1543 Copernicus' Heliocentric theory published Period: 1545 to 1563 Council of Trent 1566 Peak of Ottoman Empire 1588 Defeat of Spanish Armada 1599 Shakespeare's Julius Caesar published 1609 Galileo's first telescope built 1619 William Harvey discovered blood flow 1648 Taj Mahal Finished 1687 Newton's laws of gravity published