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First person to sail directly from Europe to India.
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.It was an artistic and philosophical movement that began in Italy. It altered how Europeans viewed themselves.
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Invented the movable type printing press
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Sailed from Europe to America. Discovered the "new world" of the Americas.
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European ships were traveled around the world to search for new trading routes and partners.
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Made the sculpture of David
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Painted the Mona Lisa
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wrote his very first play
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Became so convinced in the theory of a heliocentric solar system that he began to share his notes with friends.
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Translated the New Testament into Greek
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nailed the 95 theses to the Churchs door attacking the Catholic Church's corrupt practice of selling "indulgences" to absolve sin.
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The 16th- century religious, political, intellectual and cultural upheaval that splintered Catholic Europe, setting in place the structures and beliefs that would define the continent in the modern area.
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Set out from Spain with a fleet of 5 ships to discover a western sea route to the Spice Islands.
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The Aztecs drove the Spanish from the city, but Cortes returned again to defeat them and take the city
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Pizarro overthrew the Incla leader and conquered Peru and three years later founded the new capital city of Lima.
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Founded the Jesuit movement
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Explored the St Lawrence River and Gave Canada its name.
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Henry was excommunicated by the pope. The reformation had begun.
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A concept used by historians to describe the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology and chemistry transformed the views of society about nature.
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Published the landmark text "Institution of the Christian Religion,¨ an early attempt to standardize the theories of Protestanism.
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Circumnavigated the globe from 1577-1580 and helped defeat the Spanish Armada
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Published first part of Don Quixote
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His first and most famous discovery was that the planets move around the sun in orbits shaped like ellipses.
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Discovered the four most massive moons of Jupiter
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Announced his discovery of the circulation of blood within the body.
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Was elected to Parliament... He commanded campaigns in Ireland and Scotland in the early 1650's and served as "lord protector" of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland from 1653 until his death.
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series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalist over, principally, the manner of England´s government.
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Form of monarchy in which one ruler has supreme authority and where that authority is not restricted by any written laws.
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King Charles I is beheaded for treason....Charles I ascended to the English throne in 1625 following the death of his father, King James I. In the first year of his reign, Charles offended his Protestant subjects by marrying Henrietta Maria, a Catholic French princess.
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Published Leviathan
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Came up with the theory of gravity .
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Signed a treaty with King Louis XIV in which he agreed to convert Catholicism and support Frances war against the Dutch in return for subsidies.
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When William of Orange took the English throne from James II in 1688. The event brought a permanent realignment of power within the English constitution.
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wrote two treatises on government
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Signed the charter for a Perpetual College of Divinity, Philosophy, Languages, and other good arts and sciences to be founded in the Virginia Colony.
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It was an intellectual movement. Influenced by the rise of modern science and religous conflict coming from the reformation
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Established the city of St. Petersburg on the Neva River and moved the capital there from its former location in Moscow
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Published the Spirit of Laws
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Austria blocked by France and Russia tries to regain control of Silesia. Frederick struck preemptively, invading Saxony and with his ally, Great Britain started the Seven Years War
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Published Candid simultaneously in five countries
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wrote the social contract
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Louis Auguste became Louis XVI after the death of his grandfather Louis XV
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A period of far- reaching social and political upheaval in France and was partially carried forward by Napoleon during the later expansion of the French empire.
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Seized political power in France in a 1799 coup d'etat . Crowned himself
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Painted Liberty, leading the people which commemorates the July Revolution.
