• 1450

    Gutenburg Printing press

    Created an easy way to mass produce newspapers, prints, Gutenberg bible
  • 1453

    Fall of Constantinople

    Sultan Mehmed II led the Ottoman Empire and ended the Byzantine Empire
  • Period: 1485 to

    Reign of the Tudor Dynasty

    Kick started the English Renaissance led by a English- Welch family
  • 1492

    Alhambra Decree

    Spanish Catholics forced Jews and Muslims who refused to transition to Catholicism to leave
  • 1492

    Columbus Voyage to the Americas

  • 1492

    Completion of the Reconquista

    last Muslim stronghold surrendered
  • 1512

    Michelangelo finishes painting the Sistine Chapel

    Italian painting, sculptor, artist
  • 1517

    Martin Luther post his 95 Theses

    Protestant Reformation by challenging practices of the Catholic church
  • 1521

    Luther attends the Diet of Worms

    assembly calling Luther to speak about his response of the pope
  • 1532

    Machiavelli's The Prince is published

  • 1534

    Anglican Church

    Blend of Protestant and Catholic church
  • 1534

    Act of Supremacy under Henry VIII

    legislation that decreased Henry the lead/head of catholic church
  • 1543

    Copernicus

    Astronomer known for the initial construction of the solar system
  • Period: 1543 to 1563

    Council of Trent

    (Catholic reformation) series of meeting to address the Protestant Reformation and the Counter-Reformation.
  • 1555

    Peace of Augsburg

    A treaty which ended the conflict between Catholics and Lutherans
  • 1572

    St. Bartholomews Massacre

    Catholic assasinations set on Huguenots
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    War of the Three Henrys

    3 way war between Henry I, Henry III, Henry IV
  • Defeat of the Spanish Armada

    Spanish fleet sent to invade England
  • Philip II of Spain vs. Elizabeth I of England

  • Edict of Nantes

    a decree King Henry IV of France that allowed substantial rights to the Huguenots, France's Calvinist Protestant minority