AP Euro Timeline Quiz (14th Century-17th Century)

1300s

The Italian Renaissance begins in northern Italian city-states.

1304-1374

Lifetime of Petrarch ("Father of Humanism").

1315-1317

The Great Famine

1337-1453

Hundred Years' War

1347-1353

The Black Death (Bubonic Plague) in Western Europe

1378-1417

The Papal Schism (Western Schism)

1380s

John Wycliffe translates the Bible into English

1405

Leonardo Bruni writes On Learning and Literature.

1415

Jan Hus is burned at the stake for heresy in Bohemia.

1419

Prince Henry establishes a school for navigators in Portugal.

1420-1436

Filippo Brunelleschi constructs the Dome of Florence Cathedral.

1450

Johannes Gutenberg invents the mechanical printing press.

1453

Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire.

1469

Marriage of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile.

1488

Bartholomeu Dias rounds the southern tip of Africa (Cape of Good Hope).

1492

Muslim Granada falls, completing the Spanish Reconquista.

Christopher Columbus makes his first voyage across the Atlantic.

1494

Treaty of Tordesillas is signed between Spain and Portugal.

1498

Vasco da Gama reaches India.

1509

Desiderius Erasmus publishes Praise of Folly.

1513

Niccolò Machiavelli writes The Prince.

1515

Pope Leo X issues a papal bull to raise funds for rebuilding St. Peter’s Basilica.

1516

Thomas More publishes Utopia.

1517

Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses.

1519

Hernán Cortés lands in Mexico (Aztec conquest completed 1521).

Ferdinand Magellan sets sail (First circumnavigation of the earth completed in 1522).

Charles V is elected Holy Roman Emperor.

1521

Diet of Worms

1524-1525

The German Peasants’ War

1530-1535

Francisco Pizarro conquers the Inca Empire.

1534

The Act of Supremacy.

The Münster Rebellion.

1536

John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion.

1540

Society of Jesus (Jesuits) established under Ignatius Loyola.

1545-1563

Pope Paul III invoked The Council of Trent.

1555

The Peace of Augsburg.

1556

Charles V abdicates the throne.

1558

Coronation of Queen Elizabeth I of England.

1559

The Catholic Church issues the first Index of Prohibited Books.

1562-1598

The French Wars of Religion.

1568-1648

The Eighty Years' War.

1571

Battle of Lepanto.

1572

St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre.

1576

Jean Bodin publishes Six Books of the Commonwealth.

1588

Defeat of the “Invincible” Spanish Armada.

1589

Henry of Navarre ascends the French throne as King Henry IV.

1598

Henry IV issues the Edict of Nantes.

1600

British East India Company founded.

1602

Dutch East India Company (VOC) founded.

1603

James I ascends the English throne.

1607

Jamestown, Virginia founded.

1608

Samuel de Champlain founds Quebec (New France).

1610

Assassination of King Henry IV of France.

1618

The Thirty Years' War (1618–1648).

1648

The Peace of Westphalia:

Recognizes Calvinism alongside Lutheranism and Catholicism.

Grants official independence to the Dutch Republic and Swiss Confederation.

Weakens the Holy Roman Empire and establishes the modern sovereign state system.