Sydney Overton - AP Euro timeline

  • Gutenberg invents the printing press
    1450

    Gutenberg invents the printing press

    The printing press makes writing faster. By doing this, it spreads literacy rates all throughout Europe.
    A machine for printing text or pictures from type or plates.
  • Period: 1450 to

    Renaissance and exploration

  • Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire
    May 29, 1453

    Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire

    The Ottoman Empire takes over the Byzantine Empire. Sultan Mehmed II leads this and helps them officially take over.
  • Period: 1485 to

    Reign of Tudor Dynasty

    English and Welsh ruling house that reigned in England. Ended after there was no heir to the throne after Queen Elizabeth I died in 1603.
  • Columbus voyages the Americas
    1492

    Columbus voyages the Americas

    Columbus sets out to find route to markets in Asia and accidentally finds America.
  • Alhambra Decree
    1492

    Alhambra Decree

    Alhambra Decree: Law from King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella ordering all practicing all Jews to either convert to Catholicism or leave their kingdoms. This takes place after the Jews get the blame for the Black Plague.
  • Completion of the Reconquista in Spain
    Jan 2, 1492

    Completion of the Reconquista in Spain

    Kind Ferdinand and Queen Isabella take over Granada over Moorish (Muslim) and Jewish territory. This took place over centuries, finally finishing, moving forward with forced conversion of the Moorish and the Jews.
    Reconquista: Reconquer
  • Michelangelo completes painting the Sistine Chapel
    1512

    Michelangelo completes painting the Sistine Chapel

    This painting shows how Humanism has come to Europe through his art and Renaissance style.
    Michelangelo: Italian artist
  • Martin Luther posts 95 Theses/The launch of the Protestant Reformation
    1517

    Martin Luther posts 95 Theses/The launch of the Protestant Reformation

    Martin Luther publishes his book about Christianity. This leads to the Protestant Reformation.
    Martin Luther: German Preist
    95 Theses: Book about how Christian Faith needs to be around God himself, not through the church payments and work.
    Protestant Reformation: The break of religious unity in Europe
  • Luther's attendance at the Diet of Worms
    1521

    Luther's attendance at the Diet of Worms

    Emporer Charles V commences that Luther is outlawed from the Catholic Church because of his writings.
    Diet of Worms: Trial about Martin Luther's "95 Theses"
  • Machiavelli's "The Prince" is published
    1532

    Machiavelli's "The Prince" is published

    The Prince: Machiavelli talks about his beliefs as a person in power, how fear is better than love when you are in his position.
  • Act of Supremacy under Henry VIII/Angelican Church
    1534

    Act of Supremacy under Henry VIII/Angelican Church

    Parliament passed that allows Henry VIII to become the supreme head of the Church of England.
    Act of Supremacy: Legislative act that declares a monarch the Supreme Head or Governor of the Church within their own realm.
    Anglican Church: Global Christian communion with its roots in the Church of England
  • Copernicus publishes "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres"
    1542

    Copernicus publishes "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres"

    This book proposes new ideas in science that hadn't been thought of before.
    Copernicus: Polish astronomer
  • Period: 1545 to 1563

    Council of Trent

    Council of Trent: Catholic Reformation
  • Peace of Ausburg/Recognizes "Cuius regio, eius religio"
    1555

    Peace of Ausburg/Recognizes "Cuius regio, eius religio"

    Treaty passes that ends conflict between two religions.
    Peace of Ausburg: Treaty within the Holy Roman Empire that ended religious conflict between Catholics and Lutherans by allowing rulers to choose either Catholicism or Lutheranism as the official religion of their state
    Cuius regio, eius religio: Whose realm, his religion
  • St. BartholomewSt. Bartholomew's Massacre's Massacre
    1572

    St. BartholomewSt. Bartholomew's Massacre's Massacre

    A targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence directed against the Huguenots during the French Wars of Religion that killed 5,000 to 30,000.
  • Period: to

    War of the Three Henrys

    War between Henry of Navvare, Henry III of France, and Henry I of Lorraine. War ends with Henry of Navvare winning.
  • Defeat of the Spanish Amada/Philip II of Spain vs. Elizabeth I of England

    Defeat of the Spanish Amada/Philip II of Spain vs. Elizabeth I of England

    The English defeated the Spanish Armada in a decisive naval battle at Gravelines.
  • Edict of Nantes

    Edict of Nantes

    King Henry IV grants substantial religious and civil liberties to the Huguenots (French Protestants) in a nation still overwhelmingly Catholic.