Western Heritage Final - Primary

On his Own Ignorance

1367

The Great Schism/Avignon Papacy

1378-1417

Guttenberg’s Printing Press

1454 or 1457

Life of Martin Luther

1483 - 1546

Machiavelli’s Prince and Discourses

1513 and 1517

Luther’s Treatise on indulgences

October 31, 1517

Formation of Schmalkaldic League

1526

Peasants Rebellion in Germany

1524-25

Life of Nicolas Copernicus

1473-1543

The Scientific Revolution

1543-1687

Act of Supremacy by Henry VIII

1534

John Calvin Reforms in Geneva

1541

Publication of Copernicus’ Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres

1543

Peace of Augsburg decrees “whose region, his religion”

1555

Reign of Elizabeth I

1558 - 1603

St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre

Aug., 23-24 1572

English Defeat of the Spanish Armada

Aug., 8 1588

Thirty Years War

1618-1648

English Civil War

1642-1648

Oliver Cromwell Lord Protector of the Realm

1649-1659

Publication of Hobbe’s Leviathan

1651

Restoration of the Monarchy

1660

Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica

1687

Locke’s Second treatise on Civil Government

1691