Old Regime By ikerxianrata Period: 1453 to 1598 XVI 1515 Charles V (Carlos I) of the Holy Roman Empire https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.ua.es%2Fmetodologiamoderna%2F2015%2F12%2F18%2Fpor-que-a-carlos-se-la-llama-carlos-v-y-carlos-i%2F&psig=AOvVaw2oFtk74v-oc3jkCnMWSuVA&ust=1667217595712000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CA0QjRxqFwoTCPDSudbzh_sCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAE 1525 Arrival of the potato in Europe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDFB7PVPDxo 1543 Publication of Copernicus' work De Revolutionibus Orbium Caelestium 1545 The exploitation of the silver mines of Potosí (Bolivia) begins 1563 Closing of the Council of Trent 1571 The Holy League defeats the Turks in Lepanto 1598 Peace of Vernis. End of the Wars of Religion in France 1618 The Thirty Years' War begins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lqg94VGh0rY Period: 1618 to 1694 XVII 1633 Galileo Galilei is condemned by the Inquisition for hererjy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbuj8iNRDxg 1643 Louis XIV, the king of the sun, begins his reign 1648 Peace of Westphalia, the end of the Thirty Years' War: hegemony of France in Europe 1682 Newton formulates the law of gravity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86ZNmoAdlNg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X-BTbwj3xU Period: 1688 to 1689 Glorious Revolution in England 1689 John Locke Publishes Two Treatises on Civil Government 1694 Bank of London founded Period: 1701 to 1704 War of succession to the Spanish crown 1715 Louis XIV dies. Gives the throne to Louis XV Period: 1733 to 1735 War of succession in Poland Period: 1740 to 1748 War of the Austrian Succession 1748 Publication of The Spirit of the Laws, by Montesquieu 1751 The first volume of the Encyclopedia appears Period: 1756 to 1763 The war of 7 years 1762 Rousseau's The Social Contract published 1770 Boston massacre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpK9qe0a-WI Period: 1776 to 1783 War of Independence of the United States of America. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMA5ykesU0I 1789 The French Revolution begins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttdq818TGD0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMKv5-8MVpE 1799 Death of George Washington