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AP World History Timeline- Early Modern Period
Created by
Casey Brown
Description
Blue: Science and Technological Advancements
Orange: Art, architecture, culture
Purple: Economics
Yellow: Religion
Red: Government and Politics
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Events
Jan Hus burned at the stake
Ottomans conquered Constantinople.
Da Vinci Ginevra de Benci completed
Topkapi Palace completed
Suleymaniye mosque completed
Columbus departs on first voyage
Vasco de Gama reaches India, having sailed around Africa
David completed
Waldseemuller's map completed, showing the Americas as a landmass for the first time
Erasmus’ Praise of Folly published
Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel completed
95 Theses
Cortez conquers the Aztecs under Montezuma
Zwingli’s 67 Articles
Pizarro conquers the Inca
Suleiman the Lawgiver’s reign begins (Islamic world gets law code based on Islamic religious texts)
Copernicus’ On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres published
City of Potosi founded at Potosi silver mine
Massacre at Wassy, ( a massacre of French Protestants in the “wars of religion”)
Roanoke founded by the English
Quebec founded by the French
Thirty Years War begins
Galileo’s Trial
Jean Baptiste Colbert begins his role as Finance Minister of France (height of mercantilist policies in France)
Newton publishes Principia Mathematica
Leeuwenhoek observes single-celled organisms in his microscope
Charles I executed (English rebel against King that limits their rights)
James II exiled (English rebel against King that they feel does not represent them)
English Bill of Rights signed (English insist that the monarchy is limited by certain laws, citizens have certain protected rights
Versailles palace completed (height of absolutism in France)
