AP Euro unit 1-4 timeline

1348

Black Death Ravages Europe

c. 1359

Petrarch's Letters to the Ancient Dead

14th cent.

Humanism develops

14th c.

Giotto pioneers the Renaissance painting style

1429

Joan of Arc leads the Battle of New Orleans

1434

Jan Van Eyck paints Arnolfini Portrait

1450

Gutenberg invented Printing Press

1450

Francesco Sforza becomes Duke of Milan

1453

Fall of Constantinople

1453

End of Hundred Years' War

1469

Lorenzo the magnificent took power in Florence

1471

War of the Roses Ends

1486

Boticelli paints the Birth of Venus

1488

Bartolomeu Dias Rounds the Cape of Good Hope

C. 1490 - 1527

High Renaissance

1492

Columbus's Voyages

1492

Ferdinand & Isabella Unify Spain

1492

Rodrigo Borgia becomes Pope Alexander VI

1494

Italian Wars (French Invasions)

1498

Da Vinci's Last Supper

1503

Pope Julius II assumes the Papal Throne

1504

Michelangelo's David finished

1506

Da Vinci's Mona Lisa

1509

Erasmus writes In Praise of Folly

1512

Michelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel

1513

Machiavelli publishes The Prince

1516

Thomas More's Utopia

1519

1522: Magellan's Crew Circumnavigates the Earth

1519

Charles V becomes Holy Roman Emperor

1527

Sack of Rome

1528

Baldassare Castiglione's Book of the Courtier

1532

Fall of the Inca Empire to Pizarro

16th c.

Encomienda System created

16th c.

Columbian Exchange begins

16th c.

Price Revolution & Inflation

1542

Bartolome de las Casas writes about Spanish mistreatment of natives

1543

Copernicus writes Revolutions of the Celestial Orbits

1309

1376: Babylonian Captivity & Beginning of the Sale of Indulgences

1517

Luther's 95 Theses

1519

Leipzig Debate

1521

Diet of Worms & Luther's Excommunication

1521

Henry VIII named "Defender of Faith"

1520s

Luther Translates the Bible into the Vernacular

1529

Marburg Colloquy

1530

Augsburg Confession

1531

Zwingli Killed in Swiss Wars of Religion

1534

Act of Supremacy in England

1534

Jesuits Founded by Loyola

1536

John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion

1545

1563: Council of Trent

1553

1558: Reign of Mary Tudor

1555

Treaty of Augsburg

1558

1603: Reign of Elizabeth I

1566

Dutch Revolt against Spain begins

1563

39 Articles published in England

1572

St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

1588

Spanish Armada

1598

Edict of Nantes

1618 - 1648

Thirty Years' War

1643

Louis XIV becomes King of France (r. 1643

1648

Treaty of Westphalia

1603

Stuart Dynasty begins in England with James I

1625 - 1649

Reign of Charles I

1642 - 1651

English Civil War

1648

Fronde begins in France

1649 - 1660

Interregnum under Oliver Cromwell

c. 1650

Baroque art develops

1651

Thomas Hobbes publishes Leviathan

1652 - 1674

Anglo-Dutch Wars

1660 - 1685

Stuart Restoration under Charles II

c. 1660s

Colbert develops French Mercantilist system

1682

Peter the Great becomes Tsar (r. 1682

1683

Battle of Vienna

1685

Edict of Nantes Revoked

1688

Glorious Revolution

1689

John Locke publishes Two Treatise on Government

1703

St. Petersburg built

1707

Act of Union forms Great Britain

1713

Hohenzollerns consolidate Prussia

1713

Treaty of Utrecht

1721

Treaty of Nystad

C. 1730

Enclosure Movement begins

1543

Andreas Vesalius Publishes on the Fabric of the Human Body

1543

Copernicus proposes Heliocentric theory

1618

Kepler's Laws of Motion

1620

Bacon's Novum Organum

1633

Galileo forced to recant his theories by the Inquisition

1637

Descartes publishes Discourse on Method

1662

Royal Society of London organized by Charles II

1687

Newton's Principia

1702

Maria Winklemann discovers a comet

1713

Pragmatic Sanction

1716

Voltaire was exiled from France

1729

Catherine the Great ascends the throne in Russia (r. 1729

1740

Frederick the Great rules Prussia (r. 1740

1740

Invasion of Silesia and beginning of Austrian War of Succession

1748

Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws

1751

Diderot's Encyclopedia

1759

Voltaire's Candide

1759

Emile du Chatelet translates Newton's Principia into French