History Flashcards April 2015
Dante finishes the Commedia
1321
Great Hunger
1315
Hundred Years War
1337 - 1453
Black Death
1347 - 1351
Medici Family Takes Control of Florence
1434
Gutenberg invents the printing press
1450
Ottoman Turks Capture Constantinople
1453
End of Reconquista in Spain
1492
Columbus Discovers America
1492
Italian Wars begin
1494
Luther posts his 95 Theses
1517
Charles V becomes Holy Roman Emporer
1519
Luther condemned by Council of Worms
1521
English Act of Supremacy
1534
Loyalty found the Jesuits
1540
Copernicus writes on The Revolutions of the Heavens
1543
Council of Trent meets
1543-1563
Reign of Mary Tudor in England
1553-1558
Peace of Augsburg
1555
Reign of Philip II of Spain
1556-1598
Calvin’s Final Version of the Institutes
1559
Wars of Religion in France
1562-1598
Spanish Armada defeated
1588
Dutch East India Company founded
1602
Jamestown Founded
1607
Quebec founded
1608
Thirty Years War
1618 - 1648
Dutch founded New Neatherland
1621
Galileo writes Dialogue on the Two World Systems
1632
English Civil Wars
1642 - 1649
Hobbes writes Leviathan
1651
Reign of Louis XIV in France
1643 - 1715
England takes over Jamaica
1655
French take over Haiti
1664