Western civ.

Timeline 1

  • Period: Feb 11, 711 to Feb 11, 1492

    Reconquista of Spain

    others say started in 718
  • Feb 11, 1418

    Prince the Navigator Opens Maritime School

  • Feb 3, 1440

    J. Gutenberg Develops Movable Type

  • Period: Feb 11, 1473 to Feb 11, 1543

    Copernicus

    dates of birth and death
  • Feb 10, 1492

    Columbus Reaches the New World

  • Period: Feb 11, 1508 to Feb 11, 1512

    Michelangelo Paints the Sistine Chapel

  • Feb 11, 1509

    D. Erasmus' In Praise of Folly

  • Period: Feb 11, 1509 to Feb 11, 1547

    Reign of Henry VIII of England

  • Period: Feb 11, 1509 to Feb 11, 1564

    John Calvin

    dates of birth and death
  • Feb 11, 1513

    N. Machiavelli's The Prince

  • Feb 3, 1517

    M. Luther, 95 Thesis

  • Period: Feb 11, 1519 to Feb 11, 1522

    Magellan Circumnavigates the World

  • Period: Feb 11, 1519 to Feb 11, 1521

    H. Cortes Interacts with Aztecs

  • Feb 11, 1528

    Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier

  • Feb 11, 1534

    Act of Supremacy

  • Feb 11, 1540

    Est. of Jesuits

  • Period: Feb 11, 1545 to Feb 11, 1563

    Council of Trent

  • Feb 11, 1555

    Peace of Augsburg

  • Period: Feb 11, 1556 to

    Reign of Philip II of Spain

  • Period: Feb 11, 1558 to

    Reign of Elizabeth I of England

  • Period: Feb 11, 1564 to

    W. Shakespear

    dates of birth and death
  • Feb 11, 1572

    St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

  • Defeat of the Spanish Armada

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    Rene Descartes

    dates of birth and death
  • Edict of Nantes

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    Baroque Period

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    Rembrant

    dates of birth and death
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    Reign of Gustavus II of Sweden

  • Period: to

    30 Years' War

  • Mayflower Compact

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    Cardinal Richelieu’s Tenure as Chief Minister to Louis XIII

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    John Locke

    dates of birth and death
  • Trail of Galileo

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    Isaac Newton

    dates of birth and death
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    Reign of Louis XIV of France

  • Peace of Westphalia

  • Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

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    Reign of Peter the Great of Russia

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    Glorious Revolution

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    War of Spanish Succession

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    Jean Jacques-Rousseau

    dates of birth and death
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    War of Austrian Succession

  • Montesquieu, On the Spirt of the Laws

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    French and Indian War

  • Thomas Pains, Common Sense