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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Timeline from 1300 - 1650
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Jan 1, 1346
Gunpowder
Gunpowder was introduced to Europe.
War changed dramatically in Europe knights could no longer defend themselves from shots from gunpowder and as a result knights turned into footmen.
During this present time gunpowder has evolved into bullets and war is being fought in a different way this day, if gunpowder was not discovered we might have still been fighting a war with swords. -
Jan 1, 1350
The Black Death Struck Europe
Even though there was no cure discovered for the black death when it took out more than 50% of Europe's population it lead to a lot of medical changes and there were many cures found while trying to look for the cure of the black death. Nowadays we have advanced medical technology and we can cure many diesis. -
Jan 1, 1397
The First Bank By The Medici Family
The first bank was created by the Medici family, this was a great invention because people would keep their money in the bank instead of bringing it around with them and then they could take their money out from anywhere where there was a bank.
In the modern day a lot of people in the world have bank accounts and store their money in the bank and when they want some cash they could just go to an ATM machine and withdraw the money from their bank accounts. -
Jan 1, 1425
The Birth Of Leonardo Da Vinci
During his time he was a renaissance man and made many great changes to the world. He had many ideas of machines of war and changes the way people paint. The first design of a tank was also created by Leonardo Da Vinci and it has evolved during time until to what we have in this era. -
Jan 1, 1440
Invention Of The Printing Press By Johannes Gutenberg
The printing press created a new way of printing books and other things that were usually take a long time to be handwritten, the printing press made 3,600 pages in a day compared to the 40 pages the was made by handwritten printing. Over time the printing press has evolved and the newspapers that we get in the morning, or the books that we buy at the bookshop are all made by the modern day version of a printing press. -
Jan 1, 1534
Protestantism Was Created By King Henry The Eight
Without the separation of the catholic church there might not be Protestantism people could choose weather they would want to be a strict Christian or a Protestantism and still believe Jesus and god but be able to get divorced and do other things. There are many Protestantism in the modern society and also many other ways of Christianity. -
Jan 1, 1581
The First Pendulum By Galileo Galilei
Time was more accurate and there were less errors in time compared to a regular clock from the middle ages. In the modern society we have watches and clocks that we can easily look at the time and that we now also have digital clocks that say the precise time. -
First Microscope By Zacharias Janssen
The microscope was made with 2 lenses that made things visible to be 270 times larger then it's actual size, and was used to study human blood cells and other small things that were to small to be seen by the human eye.
Microscopes are greatly used by scientist nowadays and are much more stronger then what they used to be like during the renaissance and is used to make many new discoveries -
First Flush Toilet By Sir John Harrington
Things were more sanitary with a flush toilet. Nowadays most of the society is clean because of flush toilets that dispose our waste. If there was no such thing as a flush toilet when we excrete it would smell really bad. -
Match Was Created By Robert Boyle
Before there was such a thing as a match fire was made by rubbing 2 sticks together or by striking a flint to steel but all of these methods were time consuming so the match was a great invention and a much more faster way to make fire.
During this modern day we still use matches, but as well as matches we also use lighters to light a fire, thanks to the match we don’t have to sit down with 2 sticks and rub for a long time until we get fire, all we got to do is strike a match to a matchbox -
The First Telescope by Galileo Galilei
Without the first telescope we would not know space as we know it nowadays and we still mike think that we are in the center of the universe, We now have many powerful telescopes that can let us know more about space and different planets. -
The First Submarine By William Borne
The first submarine was the first machine to go underwater but it could only go 15 feet and the problem was the air inside the submarine was not replenishable.
The submarine has evolved so much since the 1630 now our submarines can go very deep underwater and we have made a lot of new discoveries from underwater exploration with submarines
