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Prince Henry's school of navigation resulted in a breakthrough for Portuguese navigation. -
Gutenberg invented the movable-type printing press, which started the Printing Revolution. -
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The governments of Spain and Portugal agreed to the Treaty of Tordesillas, named for the city in Spain in which it was created. -
Ponce de León decided to invest much of his earnings in exploring the lands north of Puerto Rico and arrived in Florida. -
Marín Luther published a document he called Disputation on the Power of Indulgences, or 95 Theses. -
95 Theses against papal indulgences, or the atonement of sins through monetary payment, on the door of the church at Wittenberg in Germany. -
Hernán Cortés was a Spanish conqueror, who is remembered for conquering the Aztec Empire claiming Mexico for Spain. -
Pope Leo X issues the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem, which excommunicates Martin Luther from the Catholic Church. -
Pizarro's victory at Cajamarca, that effectively marked the end of the Inca Empire and the beginning of the European colonization of South America. -
Driven by lust, Henry sought to seek an annulment from his first wife Catherine. -
The Act of Supremacy defined the right of Henry VIII to be supreme head on earth of the Church of England. -
Henry VIII created the Church of England as a religious body unique from the Roman Catholic Church in order to achieve his goal of divorcing his first wife -
The first Jesuits–Ignatius and six of his students–took vows of poverty and chastity and made plans to work for the conversion of Muslims. -
His book is considered a defining book of the Reformation and a pillar of Protestant theology. -
The Council of Trent was a general council of Christendom which gathered to resolve the religious differences created by the Protestant revolt. -
Coronado led a major Spanish expedition up Mexico's western coast and into the region that is now the southwestern United States. -
The Council of Trent reaffirmed the authority and centrality of the Catholic Church, established seminaries for a better-educated clergy, and condemned the Protestant Reformation as heresy. -
It was the first permanent legal basis for the coexistence of Lutheranism and Catholicism in Germany, -
It was the first machine to be powered by steam and was largely used to pump water out of mines. -
It was a global conflict that involved most of the European great powers. -
It is a multi-spindle spinning frame, it was one of the key developments in the industrialization of textile during the Industrial Revolution. -
It was of a device to reduce the amount of waste produced by the Newcomen steam engine. -
It was used coke instead of charcoal to generate higher temperatures. -
It was an act of protest in which a group of American settlers dumped crates of tea into Boston Harbor. -
It was a meeting of delegates from the British colonies. -
The Battles of Concord and Lexington were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
The Second Continental Congress was a late-18th-century meeting of delegates from the Thirteen Colonies that united in support of the American Revolutionary War. -
The Declaration of Independence is the founding document. This announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain. -
During the American Revolutionary War, was the first move in a surprise attack organized by George Washington against Hessian forces. -
It was one of the most important wars fought during the American Revolutionary War. -
Through the alliance between Spain and France, as part of its conflict with Britain, Spain declared war on Britain as an ally of France, itself an ally of the American colonies. -
This permitted large-scale manufacture of high-quality thread and yarn. -
The British General Charles Cornwalllis surrendered his army to The General George Washington giving up the chances to win the Revolutionary War. -
This invention was significant because it used mechanization to automate much of the weaving process. -
His invention was one of the most important iron-making processes of the Industrial Revolution. It was a new method of transforming cast iron into the more versatile and valuable material. -
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It was a machine that revolutionized the production of cotton by greatly speeding up the process. -
He invented the method of preserving food by enclosing it in hermetically sealed containers. -
He built the first-ever steam locomotive to run along a track. The improvements Trevithick made in the design and construction of boilers. -
He and Robert R. Livingston built the first commercially successful steamboat, it was named North River Steamboat. This helped to power the Industrial Revolution by moving goods and people.