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  Considered the bridge between the Middle Ages and Modern history
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  Explored for Portugal
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  English explorers wanted to find the Northwest Passage
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  Invented the printing press
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  Arived in the Americas
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  Was the first European explorer to reach India
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  Painted the Mona Lisa
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  This is when he began to make his own heliocentric model.
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  Wrote The Praise of Folly
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  Created the Sistine Chapel ceiling
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  Attempts to reform the Catholic Church and the development of Protestant Churches in western Europe
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  Posted his 95 Theses on the door of Wittenburg Castle Church
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  Led the Spanish expedition to the East Indies
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  Captured the Aztec Empire
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  Conquered the Inca Empire and killed the emperor
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  Created the Church of England
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  Explored the St. Lawrence River
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  Founded the society of Jesus
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  Rapid advances in European scientific, mathematical, and political thought
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  Created Calvinism
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  Became the Supreme Governor of the English Protestant Church
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  Claims the land where California is for England
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  He pubished his first two laws about planetary motion
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  Made the telescope
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  Wrote his book Don Quixote
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  Announced his discovery of the circulation of blood within the body
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  A religious civil war between the Protestants and Roman Catholics
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  Wrote Macbeth
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  Ascended to the throne, his reign was marked by religious and political strife that led to civil war
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  Caused due to conflict between Charles I and Parliament
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  Ruled France
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  Wrote Leviathan
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  Served as Lord Protector of the commonwelth of England, Ireland, and Scotland
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  Crowned king of England, Ireland, and Scotland. His reign marked the Restoration Period
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  A philosophical movement that took place in Europe, influential in French and American revolutions and constitutions
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  Presented his three laws of motion
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  Ensured that England would have a constituational monarchy
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  They were offered the throne as joint monarchs, known as the Glorious Revolution
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  Wrote the Two Treaties of Government
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  Declared St. Petersburg as the capital of Russia
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  A monarchy that is not restrained by any laws
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  Prussia's king
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  Published the Spirit of Laws
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  Wrote Candide and Other Stories
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  Wrote The Social Contract
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  Far reaching social and political upheaval in Franch
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  A representation of the oppressive nature of the monarchy, the start of the French Revolution
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  He died which was considered a major event in the Revolution
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  Wrote his Napoleonic Code
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  Painted the Liberty Leading the People painting