THE TIMELINE

1500 1550 1599

HENRY VIIIKing of England from

1509, when he succeeded his father

Henry VII and married Catherine of Aragon

Supremacy act: In 1534, HenryVIII for getting divorce with Catherine splits the English church from the Roman Church.

In 1553 the crown

swiches to Mary I(or Mary the Bloody)

Queen Elizabeth IQueen of England (1558–

1603), the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn.

Through her Religious Settlement of 1559 she enforced the Protestant

religion by law.

1513:Machiavelli wrote the Prince

1594:Shakespeare wrote Romeo & JulietLeonardo Da Vinci

createded The Mona Lisa

Michelangelo createded the Sistine Chapel

ceilingCaravaggio painted

"The Story of Saint Matthew"

In Hungary, ultimate of the first invention

of carriage

Tyco Brahe and Keplero extend the Copernican theory

1600 1650 1699

King James I(1603 - 1625)

James was the son of Mary Queen of Scots and her second husband Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley. He was descended

through the Scottish kings from Robert the Bruce, and the

English Tudors through his great grandmother Margaret Tudor

sister of Henry VIII.

England built in 1607 an establishment at

Jamestown. This was the beginning of

colonialism by England in North

America

King Charles I (1625 - 1649)

Charles was the 2nd son of James VI of Scotland

(James 1 of England) and Anne of Denmark. He

was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, and became

heir to the throne on the death of his brother

Henry in 1612.

First English Civil War(1642–1646) began the series of three wars.It was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations that took place between Parliamentarians and Royalists from 1642 until 1651

King James II (1685 - 1688) He was created Lord High Admiral and warden of the Cinque Ports, and commanded the Royal Navy during the 2nd and 3rd Anglo-Dutch wars.

Bill of Rights 1689 It lays down limits on the powers of sovereign and sets out the rights of Parliament and rules

for freedom of speech in Parliament, the requirement to regular elections to Parliament and the right to petition the monarch without

fear of retribution.

1605:Shakespeare wrote Machbet

The end of british theatre of Restauration

Bernini became architect of St. Peter

Keplero published “The new Astronomy”

W. Harvey discovered the blood circulation

1700 1750 1799

Queen Anne (1702 - 1714)

Anne was the second daughter of James, Duke of York, who

became James II.Anne and her elder sister Mary

received a Protestant upbringing although their father James converted to Catholicism

and remarried.

King George I(1714 - 1727).

He was the son of the first elector of Hanover, Ernest Augustus . They had two children

George (who later became George II) and Sophia (who married Frederick William of

Prussia in 1706 and was the mother of Frederick the Great).

Declaration of independence of

the American colonies

Napoleon began his campaign in

Egypt

Swift wrote Gulliver's Travels

Voltaire published the Philosophical Letters

Works by Russeau

De Sanctis realized the Steps of Piazza di

Spagna in Rome Niccolo Salvi created the

Fountain of TreviTested the

vaccine against smallpox

Henry Cavendish discovered hydrogen

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland came into

being on 1 January 1801 under the terms of the Acts of Union 1800, by which the formerly separate kingdoms of Great

Britain and Ireland were united.

1800 1850 1899

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Second International Socialis

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Foscolo published “Dei Sepolcri”

Leopardi wrote the Zibaldon

Naturalism

Watercolor and oil painting

Started the construction of Mole

Antonelliana

The art of Van Gogh

Discovered the planet Nettuno

Morse code

1900 1950 1999

ANGLO-IRISH TREATY (1921)established the Irish Free State (now the Republic of Ireland) as a separate state-

FIRST WORLD WAR (1914)

SECOND WORLD WAR (1939)

Queen Elizabeth II (1952 - ) Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary was born in London on 21 April 1926; she was educated privately, and assumed official duties at 16. During World War II she served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service, and by an amendment to the Regency Act she became a state counsellor on her 18th birthday. On the death of George VI in 1952 she succeeded to the throne while in Kenya with her husband and was crowned on 2 June 1953.

ACCESSION TO EUROPEAN UNION

Landing on the Moon

Montale published The Occasions

Published the first volume

of Proust's ”Search for the Lost Fear”

The Time had been available online

Hyperrealism

Garnier designed the industrial city

Discovery of DNA structure

PC OGM

2000 2010 2020

Attack to the Twin Towers

War in Iraq

Barack Obama president of USA

Tsunami in Asia

Earthquake in Haiti

Debt Crisis

Harry Potter

iPhone Existence of dark matter

Opened the Holocaust Museum in Berlin

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