Term 1 Flashcards
14th Century-1527
roughly the Italian Renaissance
1453
Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks
1492 (both)
Columbus sails the ocean blue, no more muslim no more jew (reconquista)
1513
Machiavelli publishes The Prince
1517
Luther posts his Ninety-Five Theses
1521—1648
Era of Religious Wars
1527
Sack of Rome
1529
The Ottoman Turks lay siege to Vienna
1517-1648
Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter Reformation
1545-63
Council of Trent meets to decide how to reform the Catholic Church
1555
Peace of Augsburg ends the civil wars in Germany
1567
Dutch Wars of Independence and Religion against Philip II
1562—1598
The French Civil Wars of Religion and Politics
1598
Edict of Nantes
1588
The Spanish Armada Fails in Its Crusade Against Protestant Elizabethan England
1598
Philip II of Spain dies
1639-1646
English Civil War round I erupts
1651
Thomas Hobbes publishes Leviathan
1688, 1689
Glorious Revolution and Bill of Rights
1618
Defenestration of Prague Begins Round Two of Religious and Civil War in HRE
1688
John Locke publishes his Second Treatise on Government
1648
Peace of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years War
1661-1715
Louis XIV assumes personal direction of his affairs and begins his reign as the “Sun King”
1642
Galileo dies and Newton is born indicating the growing and evolving Scientific Revolution
1683
Ottoman Turks laid siege to Vienna
1450-1650 and beyond
The Commercial Revolution
1689-1789
The Era of Enlightenment or Age of Reason
