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1450
Gutenberg invents the pringting press
This invent let anybody to make books faster and duplicated what they have wrote -
1453
Conquest of Constantinople by ottoman turks
All Asia´s commerce was canceled when the ottoman turks conquered Constantinople -
1492
Discovery of Asia
The conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman turks obligated europeans to search new routes to Asia.
In 1492 Christopher Columbus discovered America with the support of the Catholic Kings who gave him three caravels to navegate across the atlantic ocean.This is the starting of the modern age -
1494
Threaty of Tordesillas
In this threaty Portugal and Spain divided the territories discovered in two hemispheres to avoid conflicts.The división was a line drawn on a meridian which wave America to Spain (except Brazil) and the rest for Portugal -
Period: 1516 to 1556
The reign of Charles I of Spain and V of Germany
During this period the Spanish empire reached its apogee and was the biggest of that time -
1517
The protestant reform by Luther
This reform was started by Luther,That was a monk from Wittenberg who was annoying with the Catholic church and was selling indulgences and there was lack of vocation -
1519
The first travel around the world
It was done by Magallanes and Elcano,they showed that the world was rounded -
1545
Catholic counter reform
The Trento concilium was organised to reconciliate cathoolic and protestants Christians.To make that they founded seminiars,confirmed the doctrined,they also created new ways to expand the catholic doctrine and they reinforced the inquisition -
Period: 1556 to
Reign of Philip the II of Spain
During this period the Spanish Empire became the mos powerfull of the world,it was composed by Spain,Netherlands,the most part of Italy,territories of central Europe,America,north and east of Africa -
Period: to
Reigns of Philip the III,Philip the IV,and Charles the II
This was a decadence period for Spanish Empire,which was declared in bankcruptcy many times.In this period Spain lost the Netherlands,and the littel territory of France and Portugal.
Charles II was sterile and died in 1700 without offspring.This caused than Bourbons reached the crwun of Spain whit Philip of Anjou -
French revolution and end of the Modern Age
This was a civil revolution of the french against their monarchie,creating the first modern democracy of Europe
This is marked as the end of the modern era.
