Post-holiday break timeline "check-in" By hcps-amoahawjo 1401 The renaissance period generally begins 1418 Prince Henry's navigation school founded May 29, 1452 Fall of Constantinople Oct 12, 1491 Columbus discovers America May 20, 1497 Vasco de Gama finds water route around the tip of Africa 1504 Michelangelo's David 1511 Erasmus' Praise of Folly published Oct 31, 1517 95 theses nailed to door of Wittenburg Church 1519 Mona Lisa finished 1520 Peak of the Ottoman Empire 1521 Cortez conquers the Aztecs 1521 Martin Lurther put on trial at the Diet of Worms 1522 Magellan circumnavigates the globe 1526 Start of the 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 the Spanish Armada 1599 Shakespeare's play Julius Caear published 1609 Galileo's first telescope built 1627 William harvey discovered the circulation of blood 1632 Taj Mahal is built 1687 Newton's law of gravity published in the Principia
