Religion - World In 1500 - Renaissance - Reformation ~ Joshua Leggett By Joshua Leggett 105 Paper Was Invented By The Chinese 570 Mohammad Founded The Islamic Religion 1230 Jesus Began The Christian Religion 1300 The Renaissance Began In The Italian City-States & Spread To Northern Europe 1384 John Wycliffe Argued The Bible Was The Highest Religious Authority - Not The Pope 1415 Jan Hus Was Burned At The Stake For Being A Heretic 1430 The Songhai Empire Was Established In Africa 1440 Johannes Gutenberg Invented The Printing Press 1453 Silk Routes Emerged Connecting Trade Between The Mediterranean Basin & Asia 1453 The Ottoman Empire Spread To Africa, the Middle East & Southern Europe 1478 The Inquisition Was Used To Reinforce Catholic Doctrine 1495 Leonardo Da Vinci Painted The Last Supper 1499 Michelangelo Sculpted The Pieta 1503 Leonardo Da Vinci Painted The Mona Lisa 1508 Leonardo Da Vinci Pained The Ceiling Of The Sistine Chapel 1512 Michelangelo Painted The Ceiling Of The Sistine Chapel 1517 Martin Luther Nailed 95 Theses To A Church Door 1521 Pope Leo X Excommunicated Martin Luther 1526 The Mughal Empire Began In Northern Italy 1532 Henry VIII Broke From The Church In Rome And Divorced His Wife 1534 Henry VIII Became The Head of The Anglican Church 1536 John Calvin Developed The Idea of Predesination 1540 The Jesuits Spread The Catholic Faith 1545 Catholic Leaders Met at The Council of Trent 1577 Elizabeth I Sponsored Sir Francis Drake's Exploration To The New World 1588 Queen Elizabeth I Defeated Philip II's Spanish Armada 1598 Henry IV Issued The Edict of Nantes 1600 Erasums Spread The Idea of "Humanism" 1648 Cardinal Richelieu Got France Involved In The Thirty Years' War 1918 The Hapsburg Family Was The Most Powerful Family In Europe
