Chronology: Renaissance - Religious Wars
Gutenberg invented the printing press
1450
Ottoman Turks conquered Constantinople
1453
Bartolomeu Dias reached Cape Good Hope
1488
Christopher Columbus reached America
1492
The Tordesillias Treaty
1494
Vasco da Gama reached India by sea
1498
Vasco de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama
1513
Martin Luther hanged his 95 thesis on the door of Witenberg Cathedral
1517
Fernando Magellan started his voyage around the world
1519
Hernan Cortez conquered the Aztecs Empire
1519
Francisco Pizarro conquered the Incas Empire
1524
Henry VIII was proclaimed head of the English Church
1534
The Jesuit order was established
1534
Trident Council started its work
1545
Peace of Augsburg
1555
Edict od January
1561
Protestant rebellion in Netherlands
1566
St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
1572
The agreement from Gent
1576
Union of Arras
1579
Union of Utrecht, Holland declared independence from Spain
1581
Elizabeth I defeated the Spanish Great Armada
1588
The Edict of Nantes
1598
The Thirty years' war
1618
The Westphalia Peace Treaty
1648
