timeline

EARLY MODERN TIMELINE
PART 1
 1075-1300 Rise of city states in central and northern Italy
 1337-1453 Hundred Years’ War
 1378-1417 Great Schism of the Catholic Church
 1414-18 Council of Constance
 1420 Treaty of Troyes
 1492 Kingdoms of Aragon and Castile capture Granada, Christopher Columbus
reaches the Americas
 1494-1559 Italian Wars
 1498 Vasco da Gama establishes sea route to India via Cape of Good Hope
 1528 Publication of Baldassare Castiglione’s The book of courtier
 1559 Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis

PART 2
PART 3
PART 4
PART 5
 From c. 1000 Commercial revolution in Europe
 1262 Venice establishes a ‘national debt’
 C. 1377 First books printed in China
 Early 1400s Completion of Cennino Cennini’s The craftsmen handbook
 1435 Completion of Leon Battista Alberti’s De Pictura
 1440s Johannes Gutenberg develops movable type
 1454-55 Gutenberg bible printed in Mainz
 1476 William Caxton sets up first printing press in England
 1479 Gentile Bellini sent to paint Ottoman sultan Mehemed II
 1486 Publication of the Malleus Maleficarum
 1528 Publication Castiglione’s book of the courtier
 1532 Publication of Machiavelli’s Prince
 1543 Publications Copernicus and Vesalius
 1559-73 Sofonisba Aguissola employed as court painter in Spain
 1563 Academy of arts founded in Europe
 1624 Parlement of Paris requires automatic appeal of cases from lower courts
 1627-28 Charles I of England spends over 30.000 pounds on Italian art
 1628 Circulation of blood discovered by physician William Harvey
 1633 Galileo’s trial in Rome
 1637/1644 Publications by Descartes
 1640 Parlement of Paris forbids prosecutions for witchcraft within its jurisdiction
 1645-47 Matthew Hopkins’s witch hunt in Essex and East Anglia
 1649 Commonwealth sale of art in England
 1660 The Royal Society founded in London