Dates:

1450 -1500’s 

Italian Renaissance 

1500’s 

Protestant Reformation 1517 ( northern Europe)

England 1534 → Henry VII Act of Supremecy 

Counter Ref – Council of Trent 1545

1555 Peace of Augsburg

Northern Renaissance

Age of Exploration ( Spain/Portugal) → beginning of Commercial Rev 

Wars of Religion 1570’s ( France )

Early Sci Rev ( tension with church) 

1600”s 

30 Years War War 1618-1648

Peace of Westphalia 1648

Dutch Golden Age ( Commercial Rev)

Enlightenment 

English Civil War 

English Bill of Rights 1688

Scientific Rev 

Absolutism → ( Louis XIV 1650’s -1715) 

1700’s 

Enlightenment con. 

Enlightened Absolutism 

French Revolution 1789 

Napoleon 1804 

Congress of Vienna 1815

British Naval/ Economic Supremacy