Period 1: The Renaissance to the Wars of Religion (Reviewer All Dates)

1341

Petrarch crowned Poet Laureate in Rome

1378

Ciompi Revolt

1378

Black Death hits Europe

1387

Chaucer starts The Canterbury Tales

1397

Establishment of the Medici Bank

1403

Alberti begins work on the doors of the baptistery in Florence

1405

Christine de Pisan’s City of Ladies

1406

Florence conquers Pisa

1415

Burning at the stake of Jan Hus at the Council of Constance

1415

Prince Henry the Navigator participates in capture of Ceuta in northwestern Africa

1417

Great Schism comes to an end

1420s

Development of single-point perspective

1440

Lorenzo Valla’s On the Donation of Constantine

1440s

Donatello’s David

1452

Gutenberg prints Bible

1453

End of the Hundred Years’ War

1453

Fall of Constantinople

1454

Treaty of Lodi

1469

Marriage of Ferdinand of Aragon to Isabella of Castle

1485

Henry VII begins Tudor dynasty following Battle of Bosworth

1486

Pico’s Oration on the Dignity of Man

1487

Bartholomew Dias sails around Cape of Good Hope

1490

Ludovico il Moro becomes despot of Milan

1492

Columbus leaves Spain for what he believes will be Asia

1492

Expulsion of the Jews from Spain

1492

Reconquista of Spain completed

1492

Lorenzo de Medici dies

1494

King Charles VIII of France invades Italy

1494

The Treaty of Tordesillas divides the discoveries in the New World between Spain and Portugal

1498

Vasco da Gama reaches the coast of India

1498

Burning of Savonarola

1501

Michelangelo’s David

1503

Leonardo’s Mona Lisa

1509

Raphael’s School of Athens

1513

Machiavelli writes The Princ

1515

Erasmus’s In Praise of Folly

1516

More’s Utopia

1517

Luther’s 95 Theses

1519

Charles V becomes Holy Roman Emperor

1519

Ferdinand Magellan sets out to circumnavigate the globe

1519

Hernán Cortés lands on the coast of Mexico

1521

Luther called before the Diet of Worms

1522

Ignatius Loyola begins The Spiritual Exercises

1525

German Peasant Revolt

1528

Castiglione’s The Courtier

1529

Diet of Speyer

1529

Henry VIII summons the “Reformation Parliament”

1531

Zwingli dies in battle

1531

Francisco Pizarro sets out for Peru

1534

Henry VIII’s Act of Supremacy

1534

Anabaptists seize Munster

1535

Sir Thomas More executed by Henry VIII

1536

Calvin publishes first edition of his Institutes

1540

Jesuits receive official papal sanction as religious order

1540

Henry VIII marries Anne Boleyn

1540s

Schmalkaldic War

1543

Copernicus publishes his Concerning the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres

1543

Andreas Vesalius writes De humani corporis fabrica with its critique of the anatomical work of Galen

1545

Council of Trent convenes

1553

End of reign of Edward VI of England

1553

Michael Servetus burnt at the stake in Geneva

1555

Peace of Augsburg

1556

Philip II becomes King of Spain after Charles V abdicates

1558

Death of Queen Mary of England

1558

Beginning of reign of Elizabeth Tudor

1559

Frederick III of the Palatinate converts to Calvinism

1559

Death of King Henry II of France

1559

Elizabethan religious settlement

1562

Beginning of the French Wars of Religion

1571

Battle of Lepanto

1572

St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre during the French Wars of Religion

1587

Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots

1588

Failure of the Spanish Armada to invade England

1589

Henry Bourbon becomes King Henry IV

1593

Henry IV converts to Catholicism

1598

Edict of Nantes

1600

Giordano Bruno burned at the stake

1602

First known performance of Shakespeare’s Hamlet

1602

Dutch East India Company established

1603

James I becomes king following death of Elizabeth

1603

Michael Romanov begins new dynasty in Russia

1605

Cervantes publishes first part of Don Quixote

1607

Founding colony at Jamestown

1610

Assassination of Henry IV