Age of Exploration and Protestant Reformation Timeline

Bartholomeu Dias reaches the tip of Africa

1488

Treaty of Tordesillas (agreement to divide the Americas)

1494

Balboa "discovers" the Pacific Ocean

1513

Hernán Cortés conquers the Aztecs in Mexico

1519-1521

Magellan's crew circumnavigates the globe

1520-1522

Francisco Pizarro conquers the Incas in Peru

1531-1533

First permanent European (Spanish) settlement in the U.S. (St. Augustine, FL)

1565

First successful English settlement in North America (Jamestown, VA)

1607

The Mayflower lands at Plymouth, MA

1620

The Dutch buy Manhattan Island from Native Americans

1626

Martin Luther issues the 95 Theses

1517

Era of the Protestant Reformation

1517-1648

Ulrich Zwingli launches the Reformation in Zurich

1519

The Diet of Worms (Luther refuses to recant)

1521

Anabaptist movement begins

1525

Henry VIII is confirmed as supreme head of the Church of England

1534

John Calvin publishes the first edition of Institutes of the Christian Religion

1536

Council of Trent & the Catholic Counter-Reformation

1545-1563

Synod of Dort (formation of TULIP results)

1618-1619

The Thirty Years' War (ends with the Peace of Westphalia)

1618-1648