Modern Age

  • Printing
    Jan 1, 1440

    Printing

    Gutenberg invented the printing and that could published more books than early.
  • Fall of Constantinople
    May 29, 1453

    Fall of Constantinople

    Otomans took Constantinople and they closed all the ways to go to Asia. This became the beginnig of Modern Age
  • The Catholic Kings
    Oct 18, 1469

    The Catholic Kings

    The marriage of Isabel I from Castile and Fernando II of Aragon supposed a dinastic union
  • Jan 1, 1478

    Inquisition

    Court founded by Catholic Kings which function was the persecution of heretics.
  • Colombus trip
    Aug 3, 1492

    Colombus trip

    Colombus set up from Palos thinking in a new way to go to Asia.
  • The discovered of America
    Oct 14, 1492

    The discovered of America

    Colomus arrived at Bahamas Islands and he though he was in Asia but this wasn´t true. He had discovered a new continent.
  • Traety of Tordesillas
    Jun 7, 1494

    Traety of Tordesillas

    The Earth was divided by a meridian into two parts. One was for Castile and the other was for Portugal
  • Reing of Carlos I in Spain
    Jan 1, 1516

    Reing of Carlos I in Spain

    King Carlos I, the gradson of the Catholic Monarchs, was educated in Flanders in the Netherlands. In this year, he became the King of Spain.
  • Magellan's expedition
    Aug 10, 1519

    Magellan's expedition

    Magellan left Seville with Juan Sebastian Elcano. They wanted to find a passage between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Finally they went around the world. It was the first voyage around the world
  • Luther
    Oct 31, 1519

    Luther

    Luther proclaimed the Reformation in the Sacred Empire writing 95 porpouses against the indulgences. Later, Pope excommunicated him from the Catholic Churhc.
  • Henry VIII established the Anglicanism in England
    Jan 1, 1534

    Henry VIII established the Anglicanism in England

    Henry wanted to divorce from his wife but the Pope didn´t allowed it, so Henry decided to create a new Church.
  • Council of Trento began
    Jan 1, 1545

    Council of Trento began

    Pope decided to make a Counter-Reformation in a meeting in Trento. Here, arzobisps and the Pope redifine the principals doctrines.
  • The reing of Felipe II
    Jan 15, 1556

    The reing of Felipe II

    He became king after Carlos I death
  • Battle of Lepanto
    Jan 1, 1571

    Battle of Lepanto

    Felipe II defeated the Turks at the Battle of Lepanto.
  • The Armada

    The Armada

    England supported the uprising, so Felipe II sent the Spanish Armada against them, although the armada was a powerful fleet of warships, it was defeated in 1588.
  • Kepler

    Kepler

    He desingned the law of the planets' orbits
  • Galileo

    Galileo

    Galileo started his astronomical observations
  • Thirty years war

    Thirty years war

    European countries revelled against Spanish Empire. End of the power of the Habsburgo family and the rise of the Borbon family.
  • Newton

    Newton

    Newton created the universal gravitational law
  • French Revolution

    French Revolution

    This became the end of Modern Age