-
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Time of great change in Europe
-
Period: Jan 1, 1462 to Jan 1, 1505
Ivan III of Moscow makes many accomplishments
-
Jan 1, 1500
Spain expells the Jews and Moors from the country
-
Jan 1, 1500
Early 1500's: Copernicus takes interest in old Greek ideas suggesting that the sun is the center of the universe
-
Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
Absolutism is practiced by many European monarchs
-
Jan 1, 1520
Copernicus begins scientific revolution with the Heliocentric Theory
-
Period: Jan 1, 1520 to Jan 1, 1566
Suleyman I exercises power as sultan
-
Jan 1, 1521
Hernando Cortes conquers Aztec Empire
-
Jan 1, 1533
Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) comes to throne (3 years old)
-
Jan 1, 1533
Fransisco Pizarro conquers Incan Empire
-
Jan 1, 1543
Copernicus publishes his findings on the heliocentric theory into a book
-
Jan 1, 1543
Vesalius publishes human anatomy textbook
-
Jan 1, 1543
Andreas Vesalius publishes "On the Structure of the Human Body"
-
Period: Jan 1, 1547 to Jan 1, 1560
Ivan IV's "good period"
-
Jan 1, 1550
Tulips come from Turkey to Europe
-
Jan 1, 1550
mid 1500's: Scholars begin publishing books that disucuss ideas that challenge words of ancient thinkers and the church
-
Jan 1, 1555
Charles V unwillingly agrees to Peace of Ausburg
-
Jan 1, 1556
Charles V divides empire
-
Jan 1, 1556
Golden Age of Mughal Empire begins in India
-
Jan 1, 1560
Ivan IV's "bad period" begins after Anastasia's death
-
Period: Jan 1, 1562 to
Huguenots and Catholics fight in 8 religious wars
-
Jan 1, 1566
Angry Protestants sweep through Catholic Churches
-
Jan 1, 1568
Spanish Duke of Alba executed 1500 Protestants and suspected rebels
-
Jan 1, 1571
Pope calls on Catholic Princes to fight against the rising Ottoman Empire
-
Jan 1, 1572
Bartholomew's Day Massacre in Paris
-
Jan 1, 1576
Jean Bodin defines absolute rule in a book
-
Jan 1, 1579
7 Northern provinces of the Netherlands declare independence from Spain
-
Jan 1, 1580
King of Portugal dies without an heir
-
Jan 1, 1581
Ivan IV kills his oldest son and heir
-
Phillip II sends Spanish Armada to destroy Elizabeth I
-
Catherine de Medici and her last son die; Prince Henry inherits the throne
-
Janssen invents the microscope
-
Henry declares religious tolerance throughout France (Edict of Nantes)
-
Netherlands prosper with the best banks and financially supported artists
-
France has around 20 million people
-
1600's: Louis XIV is most powerful monarch in Europe
-
Period: to
17th Century is a period of upheaval in Europe
-
Period: to
1600's: Two important thinkers help to advance the scientific method
-
American mines have supplied Spain with around 339,000 lbs of gold
-
Tokugawa Shoguns rule Japan
-
Tokugawa Ieyasu becomes ruler of Japan
-
Miguel de Cervantes publishes DonQuixote de la Mancha
-
Lutherans join together in the Protestant Union
-
Galileo builds his own telescope
-
Kepler publishes first two laws of plenetary motion
-
Henry is killed by a fanatic
-
Galileo publishes a book with his recorded observations
-
Representatives of Russian cities meet to choose the next tsar
-
Period: to
Romanov Dynasty
-
Catholic Church warns Galileo not to support the Capernicus theory
-
30 Years War begins
-
Period: to
Thirty Years War
-
Period: to
Hapsburg armies from Austria and Spain crush the Protestants
-
Bacon's book, Novum Organum (New Instrument) encourages experimental method
-
Cardinal Mazarin dies. Louis XIV takes control of the government
-
King Louis VIII appoints Cardinal Richelieu as minister
-
Harvey reveals how the human heart functions
-
Gustavas Adolphus (Protestant) of Sweden and his army change the tide of the war
-
Gustavas Adolphus is killed in battle
-
Galileo publishes book talking about Copernicus and Ptolem's ideas
-
Dutch painter, Rembrandt, paints scene from anatomy lesson
-
Galileo stands before court under threat of torture
-
Period: to
Tulip mania reaches a peak
-
Cardinal Richelieu sent French troops to help German and Sweedish Protestants
-
Dutch have a fleet of ships of about 4800
-
Descartes book, "Discourse on Method" sets forth his scientific method of reasoning from the basis of doubt
-
Louis XIV takes the throne after his father's death
-
Evangelista Toricelli (student of Galileo) develops 1st mercury barometer
-
Manchus invades China and establishes Qing dynasty
-
Period: to
violent anti-Marzarin
-
2 English political thinkers set off the Enloghtenment
-
Thomas Hobbes publishes the book, "Leviathan"
-
Edict of Nantes (Louis XIV)
-
England establishes Royal Society to support scientific study
-
Robert Boyle publishes "The Sceptical Chemist"
-
Period: to
Chinese Emporer Xangi rules
-
Robert Boyle discovers mathematical relationship between the pressure and volume of gases (Boyle's law)
-
France establishes Academy of Sciences
-
Louis XIV invades the Spanish Netherlands
-
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek studies bacteria in tooth scrapings through microscope. Examines red blood cells for the first time
-
Louis XIV personally leads army into Dutch Netherlands
-
Period: to
end of 1680's--European-wide alliance forms to stop France
-
War between Dutch and French ends with Treaty of Nijmegen
-
people of German parts of Moscow would see Peter I walk through
-
Newton publishes book containing his ideas
-
Dutch Prince William of Orange becomes the King of England
-
English writer, Mary Astell, publishes "A Serious Proposal to the Ladies"
-
Tsar Peter I becomes sole leader of Russia
-
Peter embarks on "Grand Embassy" (long visit to W. Europe)
-
Period: to
1700's: Growth of Scientific Knoweldge quickens, Paris the the cultural and intellectual capital of Europe
-
Period: to
1700's: Many novels are written and published
-
Period: to
1700's: Russia does not have technology to keep them warm in winter, they add poatatoes and corn to their diet, and they conquer Crimean peninsula
-
Multiple European countries band together to stop the unification of France and Spain
-
Peter begins building new city on Sweedish land
-
War of the Spanish Succession ends; Treaty of Utrecht is signed
-
German Physicist, Gabriel Fahrenheit, makes first thermometer
-
Russia is very powerful
-
Period: to
Frederick II is King of Prussia
-
Swedish astronomer, Anders Celsius, creates another scale for mercury thermometer
-
Baron de Montesquieu publishes "On the Spirit of Laws"
-
Russia invents Samovars
-
Fredrick II begins 7 year war against Austria
-
Jean Jaques Rousseau explains his political philosophy in "The Social Constant"
-
Period: to
Catherine the Great rules Russia
-
Catherine the Great forms commission to review Russian laws
-
Austria, Prussia, and Russia each take possession of a small portion of Poland in the First Partition of Poland
-
A massive uprising of serfs go against Catherine the Great
-
American colonists delare independence from England
-
Tukulor kingom arises in the former Songhai region of West Africa
-
Period: to
Joseph II rules Austria
-
Leaders of French Revolution overthrow monarchy
-
Mary Wollstonecraft publishes an essay, "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"
-
Further partitions are made
-
Further partitions are made
-
British physician, Edward Jenner, introduces vaccine to prevent smallpox
-
90 Farenheit is reached for the first time in Asia and Russia
-
90 Farenheit is reached again Aisa and Russia
-
500 Million is spent by Russian women per year, on fur coats
-
Shah Jahan orders construction of the Taj Mahal
