Transition to the Moden World

Magna Carta

Jun 15, 1214

The Magna Carta was an agreement that the people living under King John created to make laws for the Kings and to et more equality and it was signed by King John of England at Runnymede.

Black Death

Jan 1, 1340

The Black Death was an instnace of the Bubonic Plague that was caused by fleas living on rats according to some scientists and caused hug devastation in the middle ages wiping out one third of Europe.

Johannes Gutenberg

Jan 1, 1440

Gutenberg created the Printing Press which helped many writers and people advanced in knowledge to spread their ideas and for other people to leanr and read about them in books

Christopher Columbus

Jan 1, 1451

Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer, navigator, colonizer and citizen of the Republic of Genoa. He completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Apr 15, 1452

Da Vinchi was a famous, "Renaissance Man" who is most known for his paintings; The Mona Lisa and The Last Supper which sits in the Sistine Chapel. Da Vinci excelled in many different aspects including science, anatomy, art, mathematics and literature.

Amerigo Vespuchi

Mar 9, 1454

Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially conjectured. He named America after himslef hence his first name.

Michealangelo

Mar 6, 1475

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.

Luther's 95 Theses

Oct 17, 1517

The 95 Theses were created by Martin Luther and they consisted of 95 things that he belived was wrong with the Catholic Church and things he though were injust.

Galileo Galilei

Feb 15, 1564

Galileo was a famous scientists most known for going against the Church and improving the telescope. He observed the the moon wasn't a perfect sphere and that it in fact had crateors and that the Earth wasn't the center of the Solar System, the Sun was.

Shakespeare

Apr 1, 1564

Shakespeare is most famous for his plays and sonnets creating and adding many words the Enlgish Dictionary and advancing different aspects of literature in many ways.

Willam Harvey

Apr 1, 1578

William Harvey was an English physician who made seminal contributions in anatomy and physiology. He was the first known to describe completely and in detail the systemic circulation and properties of the Circulatory Sytem(blood circulation)

Isaac Newton

Jan 4, 1643

Iaasc Newton is most famously known for his Laws of Gravitational Force, which tell about how if two objects with different weights are dropped at the same time they will land at the exact time and also about accelaration.