Timeline Dates Flashcards
Italian Renaissance
1397 - Giovanni de Medici founded first Medici Bank
Printing
1450 - Gutenberg Press
Northern Renaissance
1516 - Thomas More’s “Utopia”
Protestant Reformation
1517 - Martin Luther posted “95 Theses”
Age of Exploration
1492 - Columbus came to the New World
Catholic Counter-Reformation
1534 - Ignatius started the Jesuits order
Age of Absolutism
1682 - Louis XIV moved royal Court to Versailles
Constitutionalism/Limited Monarchies
1689 - English Bill of rights (influenced by John Locke)
Scientific Revolution
1543 - Copernicus published heliocentric ideas (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres)
Enlightenment
1751 - Diderot created Encyclopedia
Dutch Golden Age
1602 - Dutch East India Company established
Economic Change
1661 - Jean Baptiste Colbert became First Minister
Enlightened Deposits
1740 - Fredrick II became king of Prussia
French Revolution
1793 - Marat was stabbed by Corday
Napoleon/Congress of Vienna
1804 - Napoleon became Emperor of France