Transition to the Modern World

By CaCompton
  • Jan 1, 1096

    Crusades

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    That is my image. It would not upload no matter how hard I tried. Crusades begin which starts increased trade demand and power to shift back and forth from Islam controlling Jerusalem to Europe.
  • Jan 1, 1215

    Magna Carta

    Magna Carta
    Magna Carta is signed, which is a paper setting laws to try and take some power from the king and put it to the people.
  • Jan 10, 1347

    Black Death

    Black Death
    Black Death strikes Europe, this is the Bubonic Plague which wipes out most of the population.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1400 to

    Renaissance

  • Jan 1, 1440

    Printing Press

    Printing Press
    Gutenberg creates the printing press which allows books and newspapers to be published faster. It also allows ideas to be spread faster.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1490 to

    Scientific Revolution

  • Jan 1, 1492

    Christopher Columbus Sails

    Christopher Columbus Sails
    Christopher Columbus sails to the Americas, which is uncharted territory for the Europeans.
  • Jan 1, 1503

    Mona Lisa

    Mona Lisa
    Mona Lisa is created by Leonardo da Vinci. It is a painting of a woman and is viewed as one of the most famous paintings of all time. Historians still don’t know what woman posed for the painting
  • Jan 1, 1504

    Michelangelo's David

    Michelangelo's David
    Michelangelo created David, a 17 foot tall statue of the biblical figure made out of one giant slab of marble
  • Jan 1, 1517

    95 Theses

    95 Theses
    Luther publishes his 95 Theses. These are 95 things that he feels the church does wrong and should do better.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1517 to

    Reformation

  • Jan 1, 1519

    Ferdinand Magellan

    Ferdinand Magellan
    Ferdinand Magellan begins to circumnavigate the world, first to do so.
  • Jan 1, 1521

    Diet of Worms

    Diet of Worms
    Diet of Worms, a meeting between Martin Luther and many princes. They were asking him to recant his beliefs.

  • Galileo's Telescope

    Galileo's Telescope
    Galileo creates his telescope, which allows people to be able to view the stars more clearly.

  • Laws of Gravity

    Laws of Gravity
    Newton develops his laws of gravity, which explains why things don’t just fly off into space.