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AP Euro Unit 1 Timeline

By Maggie Dunsford

1550-1600

1450-1500

1350-1400

  • Nicholas Copernicus is born in 1473
  • Commercial Revolution begins in 1488
  • Columbus "discovers" the New World in 1492
  • Columbian exchange begins
  • Ferdinand of Spain and Isabella of Castile marry and end hostilities between the two nations (1469)
  • Scientific Revolution is going on
  • Rule of "Bloody Mary" (1553-58)
  • French Wars of Religion start in 1562
  • William Shakespeare is born in 1564
  • Dutch Revolt and Dutch Golden Age begin
  • Spanish Armada attacks 1588
  • St. Bartholomew Day Massacre 1572
  • Edict of Nantes 1598
  • Hundred Years War is still going on (started in 1337)
  • The Black Death is still ravishing Europe
  • Petrarch the "father of humanism" is born in 1304 and dies in 1374
  • The Golden Bull (in 1356) established centralization of the Holy Roman Empire and gave much power to Prussia
  • John Wycliffe translates the Bible into vernacular English in 1382

1450

1500

1600

1350

1400

1500-1550

1400-1450

  • Invention of the printing press in 1440
  • The Northern Renaissance begins in 1450
  • John Hus and the Hussites were the forerunners to reform
  • Council of Constance determined who the true Pope was
  • Rule of Henry VIII begins in 1509
  • Protestant Reformation begins when Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses in October 1517
  • German Peasant revolts between 1524-27
  • Scientific Revolution begins in 1543
  • Council of Trent (1545) is an attempt by the Catholic Church to end Protestantism
  • Diet of Worms
  • John Calvin creates Calvinism
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