post-holiday break timeline By 1029384756 1399 The Renaissance period generally begins 1419 Prince Henry's navigation school founded 1452 Fall of Constantinople Oct 12, 1491 Columbus discovers America Jul 8, 1495 Vasco de Gama finds water route around tip of Africa 1504 Michelangelo's David 1511 Erasmus' Praise of Folly published 1517 95 Theses nailed to door of Wittenburg Church Sep 20, 1518 Magellan circumnavigates the globe 1519 Mona Lisa finished Period: 1520 to 1566 Peak of Ottoman Empire 1521 Cortez conquers the Aztecs Mar 17, 1521 Martin Luther is put on trail at the Diet of Worms 1526 Start of Mughal Empire 1528 Tobacco introduced to Europe 1532 Pissarro conquerors the Incas 1534 Anglican Church started 1543 Copernicus' Heliocentric theory published Period: 1545 to 1562 Council of Trent 1586 Defeat of the Spanish Armada 1609 Galileo's first telescope built 1623 Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar was published 1628 William Harvey discovered circulation of blood 1632 Taj Mahal is built 1687 Newton's Laws of gravity published in the Principia
