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Period: Jan 1, 1200 to
Timespan
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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Period: Jan 1, 1347 to
Black death
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Jan 1, 1348
Blackdeath
A plague spread by rodents invested Europe, killing millions -
Jan 1, 1348
Cause of the Black Death
We now know today the actually reason behind the Black Death, but in those times they thought it was a punishment from God -
Jan 14, 1348
Black Death Death count
It's hard to tell, but we're pretty sure somwhere between 75 to 200 million people died -
Jan 14, 1348
Spreading of the Black Death
From Sicily, the diasease took 3 years to make it's way across Europe -
Jan 1, 1452
Leonardo Da vinci
Leonardo was a painter, scientist, inventer, polymath, ect. His most famous work was probably the Mon Lisa -
Mar 6, 1475
Micheangelo
An italian artist who created many reat paintings and sculptures such as The Creation Of Adam -
Period: Jan 1, 1478 to
Spanish Inquisition
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Jan 14, 1478
Tomás de Torquemada
First Grand Inquistdor of Spain -
Jan 14, 1478
Frendidad and Isabelle
The King and Queen of Spain began 'purifying' Spain. Basically they drove out everyone who was not catholic -
Jan 14, 1478
Death count in Spanish Inqusition
In the Spanish Inqusition, it is reported 125,000 were investigated, and 2,250 were killed. -
Jan 1, 1483
Rapheal
One of the three members of the high Renaissance trinity. Raphael was asked by Pope Julius II to work on rooms in the Vatican. -
Jan 1, 1500
Vasco Da Gama
The first European explorer to reach India by sea -
Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
Age of Exploration
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Jan 14, 1500
Christopher columbus
Christopher Culumbus accidentally discovered America while looking for a route to Asia -
Jan 14, 1500
Giovanni da Verazano
He discovered North Carolina, New York Harbour, and lot's of other places -
Period: Jan 1, 1517 to
Reformation
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Jan 14, 1525
Martin Luther
Created the 95 theses and Lutherism -
Jan 1, 1534
Society of Jesus
Ignatius of Loyola creates the jusuits, or the society of Jesus order as part of the counter Catholosim Reformation -
Jan 1, 1536
Erasmus
Spread the Renassaince and Humanism to northern Europe -
Period: Jan 14, 1543 to
Scientific Revolution
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Jan 14, 1561
Francis Bacon
Founded the scientific method -
Feb 15, 1564
Galileo
Discovered the earth was not, in fact, the centr of the universe. Not many beleived him though -
Sir Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton's most famous discovery was that of gravity -
John Locke
Locke beleived that goverment should be based on natural law. -
Period: to
Age of elightment
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Montesquieu
Beleived the best form of goverment was one that was seperated -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rousseau beleived that a goverment must have a social contract with it's people -
George Washington
General Washington was the leader of the colonial army and later became the first president of the United States. -
Period: to
American Revolution
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Benedict Arnold
On this day Benedict Arnold betrayed the American's and tried to sabbatoge them. His plan failed. -
General Cornwallis
He led the troops in the battle of Yorktown