World History Semester Timeline

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  • Period: 1350 to

    The Renaissance

  • Period: Mar 4, 1394 to Nov 13, 1460

    Prince Henry the Navigator explored for Portugal

  • 1440

    Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press

  • Oct 12, 1492

    Christopher Columbus colonized the New World

  • Jul 8, 1497

    Vasco Da Gama left Portugal

  • May 20, 1498

    Vasco Da Gama reached India

  • Jul 1, 1498

    Christopher Columbus established Hisponiolia

  • Period: 1500 to

    The European Exploration

  • 1503

    Leonardo Da Vinci finished the Mona Lisa

  • 1504

    Michelangelo finished the statue of David

  • 1508

    Nicolaus Copernicus developed his own heliocentric model

  • 1512

    Michelangelo finished the painting of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

  • 1517

    Martin Luther created the Lutheran Church

  • 1517

    Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to his churches door

  • Period: 1517 to

    Reformation

  • Jul 10, 1519

    Ferdinand Magellan set sail for the east Indies

  • Jul 13, 1521

    Hernan Cortez captured the Aztec empire

  • 1522

    Desiderious Erasmus prepared the Greek edition of the new testament

  • Aug 29, 1533

    Francisco Pizarro conquered the Inca empire

  • 1534

    Henry VIII created the Church of England

  • 1534

    Jacques Cartier claimed Canada

  • Period: 1543 to

    The scientific Revolution

  • 1548

    St. Ignatius De Loyola celebrated treatise called spiritual exercises

  • 1553

    John Calvin created Calvinism

  • 1558

    Elizabeth I became Supreme Governor of the English Protestant church

  • Period: Nov 17, 1558 to

    Elizabeth I Ruled England and Ireland

  • Jun 17, 1579

    Francis Drake Claims the land where California is for England

  • Period: to

    William Shakespeare wrote his first play

  • Period: to

    William Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet

  • Galileo Galilei made the telescope

  • Johannes Kepler published two laws about planetary motion

  • Miguel de Cervantes wrote his book Don Quixote

  • William Harvey announced his discovery of the circulation of blood

  • Charles I his reign was marked as a religious and political satire

  • Oliver Cromwell apposed the king in parliament

  • Period: to

    English Civil war

  • Charles I is executed

  • Thomas Hobbs wrote Leviathan

  • Charles II was crowned king of England, Ireland, and Scotland

  • Louis XIV rebuilt Versaille

  • Period: to

    Peter The Great was a Czar of Russia

  • Issac Newton presented his three laws of motion

  • Period: to

    Glorious Revolution

  • William and Mary were offered the thrown as joint members (Glorious Revolution)

  • John Locke wrote his second treatise of government

  • The development of rights in England. Common law, Magna Carta, and English Bill of Rights

  • Period: to

    Frederick the Great ruled Prussia

  • Baron de Montesquieu published the spirit of laws

  • Voltaire wrote Candide

  • Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote the social contract

  • Storming of the Bastille

  • Period: to

    The French Revolution

  • Louis XVI tried to sneak out of Paris

  • Radicals take over the government

  • Louis XVI was executed for treason

  • Reign of Terror

  • Moderates regain control and write the constitution

  • The enlightenment started

  • Napoleon Bonaparte wrote the napoleonic code

  • Eugene Delacroix painted the liberty leading the people painting