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Period: 1300 to
The Renaissance
The Renaissance is an event that started in Italy, it was a philosophical and artistic movement -
1497
Vasco Da Gama
Found a water route to Asia -
1500
European Exploration
This is a period in time when European Countries started branching out and colonizing other countries -
1502
Christopher Columbus
Columbus is credited for discovering the new world of Central America -
1503
Da Vinci
Was a Renaissance Era artist who is most famous for painting Mona Lisa -
1517
Martin Luther
Martin Luther Stapled his 95 theses on the front door of a church breaking away from the church -
Period: 1517 to
The Reformation
The Reformation was a break away from the Catholic church and started the beginning of many new branches of Christianity -
1519
Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand discovered a new passage between the Atlantic and Pacific ocean -
1521
Hernan Cortez
Conquered the Aztec Empire -
1532
Francisco Pizzaro
Spread Spanish Influence into South America -
1534
Jacques Cartier
Explored Canada founder of modern day Quebec -
1535
Michelangelo
Michelangelo was a Renaissance Era Artist who is most famously known for painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel -
1536
John Calvin
John Calvin published a Theocracy would later create his own branch of Christianity called Calvinism -
1540
Francis Drake
Led in the increase of competition between Spain and England -
1543
The Scientific Revolution
This was a movement based off of science and modern thinking -
Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was a playwrite and and author known for writing Romeo and Juliet -
Galileo
He studied Physics, and the laws of gravity and was a gifted astronomer -
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The Thirty Years War
The Thirty Years war was a long bloody war fought between Protestants and Catholics resulting in no clear winner -
Charles fleeing
King Charles fled to London and formed a small army -
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The English Civil War
The English people Revolted against the English Government -
Charles in prison
King Charles was imprisoned for the actions he committed -
The Death of Charles
King Charles was sent to trial and was sentenced to death -
Thomas Hobbes
Hobbes was one of many Enlightenment thinkers, he wrote the Leviathan -
The English King makes a Revoke
The English king revoked the Edict of Nantes ending the Reformation -
Isaac Newton
Explained the theory of gravity. -
The Glorious Revolution
The Puritan members of Parliament revolted against the English king. -
Beheading of Charles
Charles I was beheaded -
Dictatorship
Oliver Cromwell sets up England as a Dictatorship -
John Locke
Locke was an enlightenment thinker that wroth Two Treatises on Government -
Death of Cromwell
Cromwell dies, and England feels it is better to restore the original monarchy so Charles II becomes king -
Death of Charles II
Charles II dies and his relative James II becomes King of England -
The Enlightenment
Was a new age of thinking, and thinkers -
The man Newton
"Newton was said in his own lifetime to have created his own Revolution" -
Montesquieu
Montesquieu was an enlightenment thinker who wroth the Spirit of Laws -
Rousseau
Rousseau was an Enlightenment thinker that wrote the Social Contract -
The French Revolution
A rebellion against the Monarchy of France -
The Constitution of 1791
Was a constitution that retained the power of Monarchy -
Louis sneaking out of Paris
The French king attempted to sneak out of Paris -
Radicals
The French Radicals took over the country -
The Reign of Terror began
The Reign of Terror was a period of time when France was ruled by Radicals who executed on a seemingly normal basis if they had any slight disagreement with the government -
Voltaire
Voltaire was an enlightenment thinker who wrote Candide
