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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance/Reformation/Exploration Timetoast
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Jan 1, 1347
The Black Death starts
The black death killed 1.5 million people. since there was no medical knowledege, there was no way of stopping it. -
Jan 1, 1350
Renaissance Begins
The age of the Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the period roughly from the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. Also included a huge artistic movement. -
Jan 1, 1400
Prince Henry sponsors Portugese Explorers
Prince Henry led the way in sponsoring exploration for Portugal. First, his navigators discovered and claimed the Madeira and Azores islands to the west and southwest of Portugal. By 1415, Portugal had expanded into Muslim North Africa, seizing the port of Ceuta.Prince Henry's sponsorship is the most important event because it sparks the whole movement. After countries see Portugal's success, they also begin exploring. Without Prince Henry's ssponsorship, countries may not have explored. -
Jan 1, 1420
Brunelleschi creates linear perspective
Brunelleschi is famous for two panel paintings illustrating geometric optical linear perspective made in the early 1400s. -
Jan 1, 1428
Joan of Arc and the Siege of Orleans
This was Joan of Arc's first major military victory and the first major French success to follow the crushing defeat at Agincourt in 1415. -
Jan 1, 1440
Johann Gutenberg invents the printing press
Johann's invention of mechanical movable type printing started the Printing Revolution and is widely regarded as the most important event of the modern period. it played a big role in the developement of the Renaissance, Reformation, -
Nov 1, 1478
Spanish Inquisition Begins
Following the Crusades and the Reconquest of Spain by the Christian Spaniards the leaders of Spain needed a way to unify the country into a strong nation. -
Aug 3, 1492
Columbus Discovers the Americas
Columbus led his three ships - the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria.His objective was to sail west until he reached Asia where the riches of gold, pearls and spice awaited. he never reached asia and instead found america -
Jan 1, 1493
Columbian Exchange
Begining in 1493, Columbus brought nearly 1,200 settlers and a variety of European animals and plants. Europeans found new foods and transported them back to the Old World.This was the seventh most important event because the Columbian Exchange helped Europeans have food to eat, such as potatoes, and it helped Native Americans hunt better because horses were introduced to the New World -
Jan 1, 1500
Spanish Settlers and Missionaries
A flood of Spanish settlers and missionaries followed the conquisdators to Spain's new empire. Wherever they went,they established colonies, claiming the land and its people for their King and Church. -
Jan 1, 1508
Michelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel
s a cornerstone work of High Renaissance art. The ceiling is that of the Sistine Chapel, the large papal chapel built within the Vatican between 1477 and 1480 by Pope Sixtus IV, for whom the chapel is named. -
Jan 1, 1509
Raphael paints The School of Athens
It was painted between 1509 and 1511 as a part of Raphael's commission to decorate the rooms now known as the Stanze di Raffaello, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. -
Oct 31, 1517
Martin Luther 95 Theses
Popular legend has it that on October 31, 1517 Luther defiantly nailed a copy of his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle church because he explained what the pope was doing wrong -
Aug 13, 1521
Hernan Cortes Conqueres the Aztecs
n 1519, Hernan Cortes began an inland trek with 600 men, 16 horses, and a few cannons toward the Aztec capital,Tenochtitlan.This event was the eigth most important because without the conquering of the Aztecs, the Spanish's empire wouldn't have expanded -
Oct 1, 1521
Diet of Worms
Luther appears at the Diet before Charles V, emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, to to answer charges of heresy. On refusing to recant, he is declared a heretic and formally excommunicated from the Catholic Church by Pope Leo X. -
Oct 1, 1521
Defender of Faith
After writing Assertio Septem Sacramentorum (Defence of the Seven Sacraments) in opposition to Luther, Henry VIII of England is rewarded with the title Fidei Defensor by Pope Leo X. -
Jan 1, 1522
German Bible
While at the Wartburg castle, Luther works on a translation of the Bible into German and publishes his New Testament translation -
Jan 1, 1524
Start of European Wars of Religion
The European wars of religion were a series of wars waged in Europe from ca. 1524 to 1648, following the onset of the Protestant Reformation in Western and Northern Europe. Although sometimes unconnected, all of these wars were strongly influenced by the religious change of the period, and the conflict and rivalry that it produced. -
Jan 1, 1526
English Bible
William Tyndale publishes a translation of the New Testament in English -
Jan 1, 1531
Death of Ulrich Zwingli
Following conflict between the Catholic and Protestant cantons of the Swiss confederacy, Zwingli is killed during the Battle of Kappel. -
Jan 1, 1533
English Reformation
The marriage of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void by Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury in defiance of the Catholic church. Henry later marries Anne Boleyn. -
Nov 1, 1534
act of supremacy
Henry VIII becomes supreme head of the Church in England, which separates from the Roman Catholic Church. -
Jan 1, 1546
Luther dies
Martin Luther dies at the age of 62, in Eisleben, Germany -
Jan 1, 1550
Commercial Revolution
The commercial revolution was the opening of direct links with Asia, Africa, and the Americas that had far-reaching economic consequences for Europeans and all their colonies.This event was the ninth most important because it greatly affected countries and their citizens' quality of life and economic position. -
Jan 1, 1555
Peace of Augsburg
A treaty grants toleration to Lutherans within the Holy Roman Empire using the principle of cuius regio, eius religio or "Whose region, his religion -
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
Louis XIV revokes the edict, leading to an exodus of Protestants from France. -
Da Vinci paints the Last Supper
It represents the scene of The Last Supper from the final days of Jesus as it is told in the Gospel of John 13:21, when Jesus announces that one of his Twelve Apostles would betray him. -
Triangular Trade
Triangular Trade across the Atlantic was a series of trade routes that linked Europe, Africa, and the Americas.First, merchant ships brought European goods to Africa.This was the sixth most important because it fueled the economy and it helped the countries recieve goods and people that they needed. -
English Colonies and Pilgrims
In the 1600's, England began concentrating on establishing colonies along the Eastern seaboard.Also, in 1620 the Pilgrims, or English Protestants who rejected the Church of England, landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris officially the worldwide war between the British and French. It also ensured British dominance in North America. France was forced to cede Canada and its lands east of the Mississippi to Britain and the Louisiana Territory to Spain.This is the fifth most important because it ended a long war and it helped America grow larger