World history semester timeline

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  • Period: 1415 to 1460

    Prince Henry of Portugal

    Founded Voyages
  • 1440

    Johannes Gutenburg

    Printing press
  • 1492

    Christopher Columbus

    Sailed to the Americas
  • Period: 1497 to 1504

    Amerigo Vespucci

    Crosses the Atlantic several times between this timespan
  • 1498

    Vasco da Gama

    Lands in India
  • 1503

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Painted the Mona Lisa
  • 1504

    Michelangelo

    Sculpture of David
  • 1509

    Desiderius Erasmus

    Praise of Folly
  • 1517

    Martin Luther

    Nailed the 95 theses onto the door of the church
  • Period: 1519 to 1522

    Ferdinand Magellan

    Circumnavigated the globe
  • 1521

    Martin Luther

    Refusal at the diet of Worms
  • 1521

    Hernan Cortez

    Invades Mexico
  • 1532

    Francisco Pizarro

    Defeats the Incans
  • 1534

    Henry VII

    Breaking the bonds with the Catholic church
  • 1534

    St. Ignatius de Loyola

    Foundation of the Jesuits
  • Period: 1534 to 1542

    Jacques Cartier

    Sails for this timespan
  • 1536

    John Calvin

    Wrote the Institutes
  • 1540

    St. Ignatius de Loyola

    Jesuits recognized
  • 1543

    Nicolaus Copernicus

    Published his heliocentric model
  • Period: 1545 to 1563

    Council of Trent

  • 1558

    Elizabeth I

    Anglican made the official Church
  • 1562

    Huguenots Civil Wars

  • Francis Drake

    conquers the Spanish Armada with Queen Elizabeth
  • Period: to

    William Skaespear

    Wrote the most during this timespan

  • King Henry IV Edict of Nates

    grants the Huguenots religious freedom

  • Miguel Cervantes

    Wrote Don Quixote

  • Galileo Galilei

    First telescope

  • Johannes Kepler

    Published his first two Planetary
  • Period: to

    30 years war

  • Johannes Kepler

    published his third planetary law

  • William Harvey

    Published his findings
  • Period: to

    Charles I

    Years ruled was beheaded at the end

  • Charles I

    Tried to arrest parliament
  • Period: to

    English Civil War

  • Oliver Cromwell

    Years ruled
  • Period: to

    Charles II

    How long he ruled Restoration happened when he took the throne

  • Thomas Hobbes

    Wrote Leviathan
  • Period: to

    Louis XIV

    He ruled in between this timespan

  • Issac Newton

    Laws of motion

  • Louis XIV

    Versailles was finished
  • Period: to

    Peter the Great

    Years ruled

  • William and Mary

    Took over the throne and established the Glorious Revolution

  • John Locke

    Wrote two treaties on Government
  • Period: to

    Fredrick the Great

    Years ruled

  • Baron de Montesquieu

    Wrote the spirit of laws

  • Voltaire

    Wrote Candide

  • Jean Jacques Rousseau

    Wrote the social contract

  • Storming the Bastille

  • Declaration of rights of men

  • Tennis Court Oath

  • Constitution of 1791

  • Louis XIV

    Beheading

  • Reign of Terror

  • Constitution of 1795

  • Napoleon Bonaparte

    Coup de Etat

  • Napoleon Bonaparte

    Napoleon crowned emperor

  • Napoleon Bonaparte

    Russian defeat

  • Napoleon Bonaparte

    first exile

  • Napoleon Bonaparte

    Waterloo

  • Eugene Delacroix

    Made liberty leading the people