2nde History Timeline
Category: Other
Updated: 29 Apr 2024
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Created byColette C
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1450 CE
Invention of Gutenberg
printing pressBirth of democracy in Athens (Around 594 BCE)1054 East-West Schism
Christianity Split into
Eastern Orthodox and
Roman CatholicRoman Emperor Constantine
issued the Edict of Milan
granting Christianity
(as well as most other religions)
legal status
313 CE868 CE
The Diamond Sutra
is printed in China
(The oldest known
printed book)1297 CE
Nung Shu is
published in China
(The world's first
mass-produced
book)1605 CE
"Relation", the first
official newspaper we
know of, was printed and
distributed in Strasbourg31 Oct 1517
Martin Luther nails
his 95 theses to the
door of the castle
church in Wittenburg,
Germany23 Aug 1572
St. Bartholomew's
Day MassacreJan 1562
Edict of
St. GermainMarch 1562
Massacre
of Vassy begins
French Wars of
Religion13 April 1598
Edict of NantesPeriods
Byzantine Empire 330-1453 CE (1123 years)Crusades 1095-1291 CE (196 years)Black Death 1346-1353 CE (7 years)Hundred Years' War 1337-1453 CE (116 years)Great Schism divides papacy 1378-1417 CE (39 years)Spanish Inquisition 1478-1874 CE (356 years)Middle Ages 476-early-mid 1300s CE (around 850 years)Renaissance 1350-1600 CE (250 years)Early Modern Period 1450-1800 CE (350 years)Venetian Republic 697-1797 CE (1100 years)Florentine Republic 1115-1532 CE (417 years)(Western) Roman Empire 27 BCE - 476 CE (503 years)Ancient Greece + Classical Greece 700-323 BCE (377 years)Ottoman Empire 1299-1922 (623 years)Scientific Revolution 1543-1687 CE (144 years)Construction of the Sistine Chapel in Rome
(Located in the Apostolic Palace =
Official Residence of the Pope)Michelangelo
paints ceiling
of Sistine Chapel
1508-1512
(4 years)War of the Roses
1455-1487 CE (32 years)Age of Exploration31 Oct 1517 - Sept 1555
Protestant Reformation1545-1563
Council of Trent
in Trento, Italy1515-1547
King François I1547-1559
King Henri II1559-1560
King François II1560-1574
King Charles IX1574-1589
King Henry III1589-1610
King Henry IV1562-1598
FRENCH WARS OF RELIGION1587-1589
War of the
Three Henrysc. 1601 - c. 1800
Enlightenment "Siècle de Lumières"1643 – 1715 (72 years)
Reign of Louis XIV
(Longest recorded reign of
a single monarch)
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