Humanties Timeline

  • Period: 753 BCE to 1453

    Rome

  • 44 BCE

    Julius Caesars Death

    Julius Ceaser stabbed to death
  • 27 BCE

    Roman Empire

    Roman Empire
    The great Roman empire started
  • 117

    Rome at it's greatest

    Rome at it's greatest
    When Rome ruled everything in sight
  • 285

    Split of Rome

  • 293

    Rule of Diocletian

  • 306

    Rule of Constantine

    Constantine first Roman emperor to profess Christianity
  • 313

    Christianity legalized

  • 330

    Split of Rome

    The new capital Constantinople
  • 476

    end of western empire

    Hello Byzantine empire
  • 521

    Reign of Justinian

  • 647

    Muslims Conquer North Africa

  • Oct 10, 732

    battle of tours

  • 768

    rule of charlemene

  • 880

    Missionary of St. Cyril and Methodius

  • 1054

    East-West Schism

  • 1066

    Viking Invasion

  • Period: 1066 to 1485

    Middle Ages

  • 1095

    Crusades

  • Jun 15, 1215

    Magna Carta

  • 1300

    Mongol Invasion

  • Period: 1300 to

    Renisnace

    time for leonardo
  • 1308

    Dante writes his epic poem the Divine Comedy.

  • 1337

    100 year war

  • 1340

    Plague

  • 1376

    The Papacy returned to Rome

  • Jul 6, 1415

    Jan Hus Dies

  • 1418

    Architect Brunelleschi designs the dome for the Florence Cathedral

  • 1440

    Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press.

  • 1440

    The invention of printing press

  • 1449

    Lorenzo de Medici ascends to power in Florence

  • 1453

    End of Eastern Empire

  • 1477

    Sistine chapel

    painted by Michaelangelo
  • 1485

    Botticelli completed the painting The Birth of Venus.

  • 1491

    King Henry VIII

  • 1500

    Copernicus’ Heliocentric Theory

  • 1503

    Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa.

  • 1511

    Erasmus published The Praise of Folly

  • Period: 1517 to

    Reformation

  • Oct 31, 1517

    Martin Luther nails 95 Theses

  • 1543

    Galileo was warned by the Catholic Church

  • Period: 1543 to

    Scientific Revolution

  • 1545

    Start of Counter-Reformation

  • The invention of the microscope

  • ggobal theatre built

    He will write many of his great plays over the next few years including Hamlet and Macbeth.
  • Elizabeth I became Queen of England.

  • Kepler discovered elliptical orbits

  • Galileo studies planets with his telescope

  • 30 Years War

  • Bacon published Novum Organum

  • Peace of Westphalia