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  • Guttenburg Printing press
    1450

    Guttenburg Printing press

    Gutenberg Printing press was the first major printing press used to make the gutenberg bible and spread information
  • Period: Jan 1, 1450 to

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  • Fall of constantinople
    1453

    Fall of constantinople

    So basically the ottomans came in and killed all of the byzantine guys this caused all of the roman and greek works to be transported to italy and helped to start the renaissance
  • Period: Jan 1, 1485 to

    Reign of Tudor dynasty

    Started after the war of roses. Ending after the death of Queen Elizabeth the first when she had no heirs to the Throne.
  • 1492

    Columbus goes to the Americas

    Columbus gains permission from Spain to go sail. they are trying to find India but instead find Cuba and the rest of the Americas.
  • 1492

    End of the reconquista

    The Spanish finished there conquest of ending all muslim activity in the Iberian area
  • 1492

    Alhambra Decree

    The Catholic King Ferdinand and Queen isabella order that all unconverted Jews must leave before July 31st
  • 1512

    Michelangelo Completes the Sistine chapel

    Michelangelo finishes his famous artwork in the Sistine chapel
  • 1517

    Martin Luther and the 95 thesis

    Martin Luther Nailed his 95 thesis To the door of his church citing many things against the Catholic church.
  • 1521

    Luther at the diet of worms

    Luther went to the diet of worms and basically said he wasn't going to take back what he said, He was excommunicated and Prince Fredrick hid him away supporting his right to speech.
  • 1532

    Machiavelli publishes The Prince

    In the book The Prince by Machiavelli he notes that a ruler should do what is in the best interest to keep the citizens of his or her kingdom happy and controlled. a good example of this is with France when Henry IV converted to Catholicism to unite a country destroyed by many religious wars
  • 1532

    Act of supremacy (Henry VIII)

    This act made Henry VIII the supreme ruler of the English church creating the Anglican church stepping away from Catholicism.
  • 1543

    Copernicus Published his work On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

    Was a major path toward understanding how the solar system worked
  • Period: 1544 to

    Council of Trent

    Catholic Counter reformation that rejected Protestantism and destroyed any chance at a united church. it also cemented the Catholics churches authority Specifically the Pope's power
  • 1555

    The peace of Augsburg

    Allows the German princes of the HRE to decide the religion of his state
  • 1572

    St. Bartholomew Massacre

    On this celebratory day hundreds of french Huguenots were slaughtered for their faith
  • Period: to

    War of the three Henry's

    The war of the three Henry's was literally a war against the three Henry's. The Huguenot King won known as Henry IV of Navarre

  • Defeat of the Spanish armada

    England under Queen Elizabeth I rule Defeated the Spanish armada. securing a major victory

  • Edict of Nantes

    This allowed the Huguenots to practice Calvinism anywhere in France BUT Paris.