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Humanism Develops
14th century
Printing Press invented by Gutenberg
1450
Fall of Constantinople
1453
End of Hundred Years’ War
1453
High Renaissance
1490-1527
Ferdinand and Isabella unite Spain
1492
Voyage of Columbus
1492
Erasmus writes In Praise of Folly
1509
Luther’s 95 Theses
1517
Act of Supremacy in England
1534
Peace of/Treaty of Augsburg
1555
Reign of Elizabeth I
1558-1603
Edict of Nantes
1598
Thirty Years’ War
1618-1648
English Civil War
1642-1651
Baroque art develops
c. 1650
Thomas Hobbes publishes Leviathan
1651
Peter the Great becomes Tsar
1682
Glorious Revolution
1688
Treaty of Utrecht
1713
Copernicus proposes heliocentric theory
1543
Dutch Golden Age
1588-1672
Galileo forced to recant his theories by the Inquisition
1633
Pragmatic Sanction
1713
Catherine the Great begins her rule
1729
Frederick the Great begins his rule
1740
Enlightenment
1750s-1800
Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations
1776
Seven Years’ War (French and Indian War)
1756-1763
French Revolution begins
1789
Louis XVI executed - French Republic est. “Reign of Terror”
1793
Napoleon’s Reign
1799-1815
Congress of Vienna
1815
