WHII Events By andrealilac 1419 Prince Henry's navigation school founded May 29, 1453 Fall of Constantinople 1492 Columbus discovered America 1497 Vasco De Gama finds water route around the tip of South Africa 1500 Renaissance period generally begins 1503 Mona Lisa Finished 1504 Michelangelo's David 1504 Magellan navigates the globe 1511 Erasmus' Praise of Folly published Oct 31, 1517 95 Theses nailed to door of Wittenberg Church 1520 Peak of Ottoman Empire 1521 Cortez conquers the Aztecs Apr 17, 1521 Martin Luther put on trial at the Diet of Worms 1523 Start of Mughal Empire 1528 Tobacco introduced to Europe 1530 Pizarro conquers the Incas 1534 Anglican church started 1543 Copernicus' Heliocentric theory published 1547 Council of Trent 1586 defeat of the Spanish Armada 1613 Galileo's first telescope built 1618 William Harvey discovered circulation of Blood 1623 Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar published 1631 Taj Mahal was built 1687 Newton's laws of gravity published in the Principia
