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Period: Jan 1, 1500 to Jan 1, 1525
seventeen hundred slaves a year were traded to the Portuguese
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Period: Jan 1, 1500 to Jan 1, 1527
High Renaissance (Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael)
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Jan 1, 1501
Henry VII’s eldest son marries Catherine of Aragon
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Period: Jan 1, 1503 to Jan 1, 1506
Leonardo da Vinci labors on his signature piece, the Mona Lisa.
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Jan 1, 1504
Erasmus publishes The Education of a Christian Prince
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Jan 1, 1505
Martin Luther enters monastery of friars
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Jan 1, 1506
Pope Julius II begins work on new Basillica.
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Jan 1, 1507
Luther was ordained a priest
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Jan 1, 1508
League of Cambrai is formed
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Period: Jan 1, 1508 to Jan 1, 1512
Michelangelo paints the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
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Jan 1, 1509
Erasmus publishes The Praise of Folly
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Jan 1, 1509
Henry VII dies
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Period: Jan 1, 1510 to
Bi-social exchange between Europe and the Americas
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Jan 1, 1512
Ferdinand of Aragon conquered Navarre
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Period: Jan 1, 1512 to Jan 1, 1517
Lateran Council and an ecumenical court
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Period: Jan 1, 1512 to Jan 1, 1546
Luther serves as a professor
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Jan 1, 1513
Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince
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Jan 1, 1513
Balboa discovers the Pacific
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Jan 1, 1516
Thomas More writes Utopia
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Jan 1, 1516
The Treaty of the Concordat of Bologna
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Period: Jan 1, 1516 to Jan 1, 1519
Erasmus produces his translations of the New Testament
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Period: Jan 1, 1517 to Jan 1, 1547
Protestantism makes remarkable advances
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Oct 31, 1517
Luther posts his “95 Theses on the Power of Indulgences”
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Dec 1, 1517
95 Theses had been translated into German
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Period: Jan 1, 1518 to Jan 1, 1519
Luther studies history at the papacy
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Jan 1, 1519
Charles V succeeded his grandfather
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Jan 1, 1519
Hernando Cortes conquers the Aztecs of Mexico
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Jan 1, 1519
Zwigli introduces reform to Switzerland
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Period: Jan 1, 1519 to Jan 1, 1522
Spanish under Cortes conquer Mexico
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Jan 1, 1520
Luther publishes On Christian Liberty & Appeal to the Christian Nobility of the German Union.
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Jan 1, 1520
Gustavus Vasa led a successful revolt against Denmark
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Period: Jan 1, 1520 to Jan 1, 1530
Luther works out the basic theological tenets
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Period: Jan 1, 1520 to Jan 1, 1550
Spain & Portugal gain control of regions of Central & South America
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Jan 1, 1521
Merchants carry the first news about Martin Luther to Hungary
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Jan 1, 1521
Luther is summoned to appear before the Diet of Worms
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Period: Jan 1, 1521 to Jan 1, 1555
Habsburg-Valois Wars
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Jan 3, 1521
Luther was supposed to be excommunicated
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Jan 1, 1523
Luther translates the New Testament into German
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Jan 1, 1524
Peasants' rebellion in Germany
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Jan 1, 1525
The Twelve Articles
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Jan 1, 1525
Luther writes An Admonition to Peace
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Jan 1, 1525
Battle of Pavia
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Jan 1, 1526
Spread of Protestantism in Hungary
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Aug 26, 1526
Suleiman the Magnificent defeats the Hungarians
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Jan 1, 1527
Sack of Rome
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Jan 1, 1527
Henry VIII petitions the pope for a divorce from Catherine of Aragon
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Jan 1, 1528
Castiglione publishes The Courtier
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Jan 1, 1529
The Colloquy of Marburg is summoned
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Jan 1, 1529
Diet of Speyer
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Jan 1, 1529
Turks besieged Vienna
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Jan 1, 1530
Confession of Augsburg
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Period: Jan 1, 1531 to Jan 1, 1536
Spanish conquered the Incas of Peru
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Period: Jan 1, 1532 to Jan 1, 1534
Henry VIII of England breaks with Rome
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Jan 1, 1533
John Calvin converts to Protestantism
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Jan 1, 1533
The Act in Restraint of Appeals
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Jan 1, 1533
Archbishop of Canterbury annuls the marriage of Henry VIII & Catherine of Aragon
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Jan 1, 1534
The Supremacy Act
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Period: Jan 1, 1534 to Jan 1, 1541
Jacques Cartier explored St. Lawrence River in Canada
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Jan 1, 1535
Ursuline order is established
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Period: Jan 1, 1535 to Jan 1, 1539
King Henry VIII dissolves the English monasteries
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Jan 1, 1536
Pilgrimage of Grace
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Jan 1, 1536
Irish parliament approved laws severing church from Rome
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Jan 1, 1536
Calvin publishes is The Institutes of Christian Religion
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Jan 1, 1537
Pietro Arentino writes to Michelangelo to praise him
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Jan 1, 1539
Six articles are passed by the British Parliament
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Jan 1, 1540
Society of Jesus is formed
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Period: Jan 1, 1540 to
The Scientific Revolution
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Jan 1, 1541
Calvin published the Genevan Catechism
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Period: Jan 1, 1541 to May 27, 1564
Calvin works to establish a Christian society
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Jan 1, 1542
Sacred Congregation on the Holy Office
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Period: Jan 1, 1542 to Jan 1, 1543
Portuguese land in Japan
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Period: Jan 1, 1542 to Jan 1, 1546
Consistory banished seventy-six persons from Geneva
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Jan 1, 1543
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres by Copernicus
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Jan 1, 1543
Knox begins Calvinist movement in Scotland
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Period: Jan 1, 1545 to Jan 1, 1563
Pope Paul III calls the Council of Trent
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Jan 1, 1547
Parliament repeals the Six Articles
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Jan 1, 1548
Ignatius Loyola publishes Spiritual Exercises
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Jan 1, 1549
British Parliament adopts Anglican mass
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Jan 1, 1555
Peace of Augsburg
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Period: Jan 1, 1558 to
The reign of Elizabeth I
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Jan 1, 1559
Knox sets to work reforming the Scottish church
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Jan 1, 1559
Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis
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Jan 1, 1560
Knox persuades Scottish parliament to enact legislation ending papal authority
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Period: Jan 1, 1560 to
Height of the European witch-hunt
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Jan 1, 1563
Bishops approve the Thirty-nine Article
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Nov 1, 1563
The Tridentine decree Tametsi
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Jan 1, 1564
Knox publishes the Book of Common Order
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Jan 1, 1565
Ursulines gain recognition & spread to France
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Period: Jan 1, 1566 to
Revolt of the Netherlands
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Aug 1, 1566
Fanatical Calvinists embarked on a rampage in the Netherlands
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Period: Jan 1, 1568 to Jan 1, 1578
Civil war raged in the Netherlands
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Aug 24, 1572
Saint Bartholomew’s Day massacre
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Jan 1, 1576
William of Orange leads a rebellion in the Netherlands
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Jan 1, 1580
Charles V politically unites the Iberian Peninsula
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85% of the Hungarian population was Protestant
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Mary is beheaded for plot to assassinate Elizabeth
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The Spanish Armada is defeated by the English Navy
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Henry of Navarre becomes King Henry IV
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The first microscope is made by Zacharias
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Edict of Nantes
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Michel de Montaigne published the first Essay
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Period: to
"Time of Troubles" in Russia