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
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