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He opened the first school for oceanic navigation, where students could learn about map-making, scientific practices, astrology, and more skills that would aid them in their journey down the west coast of Africa. -
Around 1436, in england, the printing press was considered a history-changing invention, making books widely accessible and ushering in an “information revolution.” -
The governments of Spain and Portugal agreed to the Treaty of Tordesillas, which divided their spheres of influence in the "New World" of the Americas. -
Hernán Cortés was a Spanish conquistador, who is best remembered for conquering the Aztec Empire in 1521 and claiming Mexico for Spain. -
He went to Florida, He landed somewhere along Florida's east coast, then charted the Atlantic coast down to the Florida Keys and north along the Gulf coast -
He published a document he called Disputation on the Power of Indulgences, or 95 Theses. -
Martin Luther posted theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. -
Pope Leo X issues the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem, which excommunicates Martin Luther from the Catholic Church. -
Francisco Pizarro's band of conquistadors are crossing the Andes to conquer the Inca Empire. -
the Jesuit movement was founded by Ignatius de Loyola, a Spanish soldier turned priest, in August 1534. -
In 1534 Parliament passed the Act of Supremacy which defined the right of Henry VIII to be supreme head on earth of the Church of England, thereby severing ecclesiastical links with Rome. -
Henry had broken with Rome, seized assets of the Catholic Church in England and Wales and declared the Church of England as the established church with himself as its head. -
First published in Latin in 1536 and in Calvin's native French in 1541, John Calvin's “Institutes of the Christian Religion” is considered a defining book of the Reformation and a pillar of Protestant theology -
The council was ordered by the Emperor and Pope Paul III to convene in Mantua on 23 May 1537. -
He was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who led a major expedition from what is now Mexico to present-day Kansas through parts of the southwestern United States. -
Held in three parts, ain it starts in 1545, was a meeting of Catholic clerics convened by Pope Paul III in response to the Protestant Reformation. -
Henry sought to seek an annulment from his first wife Catherine, who was now in her 40s and past the age of bearing children, so that he could marry Anne. -
First permanent legal basis for the coexistence of Lutheranism and Catholicism in Germany -
Louis XVI called an assembly of Estates General to pass proposals for new taxes on 5th -
It was a mob of angry French citizens and rebellious soldiers attacked the Bastille -
the National Assembly swore not to stop meeting until France had a constitution -
The king and his family were eventually arrested in the town of Varennes, 31 miles from their ultimate destination. -
Louis XVI was brought to trail for treason and executed by guillotine
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The conspirators industriously promulgated the rumour that there was a Jacobin plot to bring down the government. -
Napoleon crowned himself Emperor Napoleon I at Notre Dame de Paris. -
Was the first engagement of the War of the Third Coalition and one of Napoleon's most significant victories -
It started with Napoleon dominating Europe in battle, Carlos IV and his valildo decided that they should ally with France and Napoleon rather than fight against them. -
fought between the Spanish Army of Andalusia and the Imperial French Army's -
The unified armed forces of Russia, Prussia, Austria and Sweden prevailed in a decisive victory over Napoleon and his allies on German soil. -
Elba meant exile for Napoleon, but it was no prison. -
was fought between Napoleon's French Army and a coalition led by the Duke of Wellington -
Napoleon died on St. Helena on 5 May 1821 at the age of 51.