Semester Timeline Alonso-Simon By jalonsosi 1420 Prince Henry of Portugal finds Madeira 1439 Johannes Gutenberg's printing press 1439 Johannes Gutenburg printing press ink 1448 Prince Henry of Portugal traded slaves Period: 1491 to 1517 Henry VIII, king and the main instigator 1492 Christopher Columbus discovers the Caribbean Period: 1492 to 1502 Christopher Columbus made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean Period: 1495 to 1498 Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper Period: 1497 to 1499 Vaso de Gama found a quick route to India 1498 Vasco de Gama first European to reach India by sea 1503 Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa painting 1504 Michelangelo's David statue Period: 1508 to 1512 Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel painting 1509 Desiderius Erasmus,The Praise of Folly 1517 Martin Luther's 95 Theses 1519 Ferdinand Magellan found a strait to the west 1519 Hernando Cortez conquests Mexico 1520 Martin Luther started the Lutheran church 1520 Ferdinand Magellan is the first European to cross the Pacific Ocean 1521 Hernando Cortez defeated the Aztec empire 1522 Desiderius Erasmus published the New Testament 1530 John Calvin, created the doctrine of predestination 1532 Francisco Pizarro founds Lima 1532 Francisco Pizarro conquers Peru 1534 Henry VIII, Act of Supremacy 1534 St. Ignatiuns de Loyola founded Jesuits 1534 Jacques Cartier discovers the St. Lawrence River 1536 John Calvin makes the Institutes of the Christian Religion 1539 Jacques Cartier found the Mississippi River 1543 Nicholaus Copernicus makes Helicentrism 1543 Galileo Galilei improves Heliocentrism 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus book De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium Period: 1558 to 1603 Elizabeth I ruling England alone 1570 Miguel de Cervantes captured by Turks for five years Period: 1577 to 1580 Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe 1588 Elizabeth I, the Spanish Armada 1588 Francis Drake helps to defeat the Spanish Armada 1597 William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juilet 1598 Louis XVI Edict of Nantes revoked 1609 William Shakespeare, Hamelt 1610 Galileo Galilei discovers the rings of Saturn 1611 Johannes Kepler makes, The Keplerian telescope 1615 Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote novel 1616 William Harvey finds the circulation of blood 1619 Johannes Kepler makes law of planetary motion 1628 Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War 1628 William Harvey releases his work, Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus Period: 1632 to 1704 John Locke, Natural Laws and Rights Period: 1643 to 1715 Louis XIV King of France 1649 Charles I beheaded 1649 Charles II feud with Parliment 1651 Thomas Hobbes makes his social contrast theroy 1653 Oliver Cromwell served as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, 1660 Charles I started the Restoration 1661 Charles II crowned king 1668 Isaac Newton's reflecting teliscope Period: 1672 to 1680 Peter the Great was empire 1681 Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan 1682 Louis XIV builds the Palace of Versailes 1687 Issac Newton's law of gravitiation Period: 1688 to 1689 William and Mary, the Glorious Revolution 1689 John Locke writes The Second Treatise of Civil Government 1689 William and Mary signed the English Bill of Rights 1696 Peter the Great becomes a solo ruler 1733 Voltaire's Letters on the English Period: 1740 to 1786 Fredrick the Great, the King of Prussia 1741 Fredrick the Great conquered territories 1748 Baron de Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws 1750 Jean Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse on the Arts and Science 1762 Jean Jacques Rousseu writes The Social Contract Period: 1789 to 1799 Napoleon Bonaparte rises through military ranks 1795 Voltaire's Candide 1797 Execution of Louis XVI 1804 Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned emperor 1827 Eugene Delacroix painting, Death of Sardanapalus 1830 Eugene Delacroix, painting of Liberty leading the people
