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Gutenberg invented the movable printing press, allowing for easier printing of multi-page works.
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Gutenberg printed the bible for the first time with the movable printing press
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Da Vinci painted the Last Supper
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After returning, a map maker named the Americas after Amerigo
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Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa
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Michelangelo created the statue of David
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Erasmus wrote the Praise of Folly criticizing monks, theologians, etc.
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Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
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Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the church door, stating everything he thought was wrong with the church.
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Martin Luther was banned from spreading his ideals.
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Luther translates the bible to German to help spread ideals
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Castiglione published The Book of Courtier
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Machiavelli published The Prince
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King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon are divorced
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The Pope excommunicates Henry VIII
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St. Ignatius De Loyola founds the Jesuits.
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After being excommunicated by the Pope from the Catholic church, Henry VIII decides to start his own church where he, the king, is head. He calls it the Anglican Church.
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He found what is now known as Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island. He also discovered the St. Lawrence River
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John Calvin published Institutes of the Christian Religion
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The Jesuits gain control of both Spanish and Italian inquisitions
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Nicolaus Copernicus published the heliocentric model, where the sun was the center of the universe
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Pope Paul III calls the Council of Trent to meet for the first time
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Queen Elizabeth I makes the Anglican church the church of State
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Shakespeare wrote the play Julius Caesar
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Miguel de Cervantes wrote Don Quixote which was a new kind of literature called a novel.
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Shakespeare wrote the play Hamlet
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Johannes Kepler published the three laws of planetary motion, explaining how the planets moved.
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Galileo discovered a new and better telescope.
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The spread of Lutheranism caused the war to begin.
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William Harvey published De Moto Cordis, or the Anatomical Studies on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals. He focused his research mostly on the circulatory system.
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After Charles I fled, he raised an army in North England to fight the Puritans and Parliament
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Charles I's army, called the cavaliers, fought the Puritan supporters of Parliament
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Cromwell and his Puritan followers brought Charles to trial for treason against Parliament where he was found guilty and killed
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Thomas Hobbes wrote Leviathan where he explained that he thought people were inherently bad. He also mentioned that the government should have the power of a Leviathan.
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Charles II died, leaving James II to become king
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Isaac Newton published his work Principia which explained the laws of gravity and motion.
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James II and his wife had a son which terrified the Protestants with the prospect of a line of Catholic kings
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Parliament invited Mary, James' oldest daughter, and her husband to overthrow James. William, Mary's husband, led his army to London and James fled soon after.
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Parliament drafted a Bill of Rights, listing the things a ruled could not do which guaranteed some rights to the people
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John Locke published Two Treatises on Government where he stated that man has the rights to life, liberty and property which was a crucial thing for the founding of the US.
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Peter the Great changed Russia's capital to St. Petersburg which was then deemed "window to Russia"
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Baron de Montesquieu published Spirit of Laws which explained his belief in a system of split powers and he liked England's government setup the best.
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Voltaire published Candide in which he wrote against intolerance, prejudice, and superstition.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau published the Social Contract where he stated that man is born free, but he's in chains everywhere. He believed that you had to give up some freedoms to be apart of society.
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The Tennis Court Oath is taken by the Third Estate when they are told they can't have a fair amount of say in the decisions being made between the three Estates.
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The revolution starts when the Bastille is stormed
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The National Assembly issued the Declaration of Rights of Man and the Citizen
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Robespierre starts the Reign of Terror, and it ends when he is overthrown.
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Napoleon's supporters took control of the weak French government in a coup d’état
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During Napoleon's coronation, he crowned himself, taking it from the Pope.
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Napoleon's last battle was at Waterloo, after being banished for the first time and coming back. After he was defeated due to his military tactics being out of date, he was banished once again to a small island.
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Eugene Delacroix was a French romantic artist who painted Liberty Leading the People
