AP World History Timeline- Early Modern Period
Category: Other
Updated: 6 Feb 2018
Blue: Science and Technological Advancements
Orange: Art, architecture, culture
Purple: Economics
Yellow: Religion
Red: Government and Politics
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Created byCasey Brown
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Jan Hus burned at the stakeOttomans conquered Constantinople.Da Vinci Ginevra de Benci completedTopkapi Palace completedSuleymaniye mosque completedColumbus departs on first voyageVasco de Gama reaches India, having sailed around AfricaDavid completedWaldseemuller's map completed, showing the Americas as a landmass for the first timeErasmus’ Praise of Folly publishedCeiling of the Sistine Chapel completed95 ThesesCortez conquers the Aztecs under MontezumaZwingli’s 67 ArticlesPizarro conquers the IncaSuleiman the Lawgiver’s reign begins (Islamic world gets law code based on Islamic religious texts)Copernicus’ On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres publishedCity of Potosi founded at Potosi silver mineMassacre at Wassy, ( a massacre of French Protestants in the “wars of religion”)Roanoke founded by the EnglishQuebec founded by the FrenchThirty Years War beginsGalileo’s TrialJean Baptiste Colbert begins his role as Finance Minister of France (height of mercantilist policies in France)Newton publishes Principia MathematicaLeeuwenhoek observes single-celled organisms in his microscopeCharles 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 rightsVersailles palace completed (height of absolutism in France)
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