(World History 2)1 By Lance Rock 30 BCE Jesus Began the Christianity religon 105 Cai Lun invented paper 1299 The ottoman empire began in the Asia Minor 1375 the songhai empire was established in Africa 1415 Jan Hus was burned at the stake 1440 Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press 1478 Ferdinand II of Aragon started the Spanish inquisition 1492 Queen Isabella sponsored Christopher Columbus 1498 Leonardo da Vinci painted the Last Supper 1499 Michelangelo sculpted the pieta 1500 Gold God Glory are 3 main reasons for explorations 1508 Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine chapel 1517 Martin Luther nailed the 95 theses to a church door 1519 Ferdinand Magellan crew was the first to circumnavigate the globe 1519 Hernan Cortés and his forces overthrew the Aztec Empire 1521 Hernán Cortés led the defeat of the Aztecs 1521 Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther 1526 The Mughal Empire began in northern India 1533 Henry VIII broke from the Church in Rome and divorced his wife 1534 Jacques Cartier explored the st. lawrence river to montreal for france 1534 The Jesuits were created during the Counter Reformation 1534 the acts permanently divided the Roman Catholic and Anglican, or English churches 1536 Henry the 8 th became head of the Anglican Church 1545 pope Paul III met at the council of Trent 1553 John Calvin developed the idea of predestination 1559 John Calvin established the idea of predestination. 1588 Sir Francis Drake defeated the Spanish armada 1598 Henry IV of France issued the edict of nantes 1618 Cardinal Richelieu Minister under Louis XIII who got france involved in the Thirty years war. 1781 Slaves where shipped along the middle passage of triangular trade
