Timeline of the Age of Ideas

  • Jan 1, 1300

    The Renaissance (Starts)

    The Renaissance was a time period taken place in Italy at first and then spread to southern France and Spain, and then to nothern Europe. It was a time period of growth. The word renaissance is a French word meaning rebirth, and that is what happened in Europe.
  • Jan 1, 1517

    The Reformation (Starts)

    The Reformation was another event that happened in Eurpoe. It was a violent change of religous, political, intelectual, and cultaral things. This change defined Europe in the modern era.
  • Jan 1, 1550

    The Scientific Revelution (Starts)

    The Scientific Revelution was when modern science started to come into the middle ages. New developments of all types of science started to either be discovered, re-thought, or developed.
  • The Reformation (Ends)

  • The Age of Enlightenment (Starts)

    The Enlightenment was an era where European politics, philosphy, science, and communications changed. Thinkers had been questioning traditional information already, when finally they did change it.
  • The Scienific Revelution (Ends)

  • The Rennisance (End)

  • The Age of Enlightenment (End)