Time+period

=**A timeline of important events from 1425-1675**=


 * 1455 to 1487** **--** Wars of the roses**,** a series of civil wars between the house of Lancaster and the house of York.
 * [[image:http://www.geocities.com/k9ocu/columbu2.jpg width="92" height="103"]]1492** **--** Columbus’s first voyage**,** Columbus sailed west from the Canaries
 * [[image:http://www.artofeurope.com/leonardo/leo1.jpg width="195" height="92"]]1495 –** Leonardo da Vinci’s //The Last Supper// is painted.
 * 1453 --** The fall of Constantinople
 * [[image:http://academic.evergreen.edu/curricular/classical/ImagesforTest/images/MichelangeloDavid.jpg width="60" height="132"]]1501 to 1504 --** Michelangelo sculpts David
 * [[image:http://www.bcholmes.org/images/wicca/sistineChapel.jpg width="189" height="94"]]1508 and 1512 --** Michelangelo paints the Sistine chapel
 * 1513 --** Balboa reaches the pacific, first European to see the Pacific Ocean from the Americas
 * [[image:http://www.dwilliamso.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/95theses.jpg width="128" height="88"]]1517 --** Martin Luther’s complaint against specific abuses in the Roman Catholic Church called 95 Theses
 * 1532 --** Machiavelli-the prince, Machiavelli’s enumeration of leadership qualities for a prince
 * [[image:http://www.scienceu.com/observatory/articles/retro/images/copernicus.gif width="242" height="112"]]1543 --** Copernicus’ theory that the planets in our solar system revolved around the sun published.
 * 1572 --** Tycho observed the new star in Cassiopeia; he made modifications on the telescope enabling him to see the star.
 * 1581 --** Uffizi museum founded, by the de Medici family
 * 1582** **--** Gregorian Calendar adopted; wherever you are in the continent, the rest is either just entering, just leaving, or in the middle of, the same date.
 * [[image:http://www.intaglio-fine-art.com/images/trc177-s.jpg width="158" height="80"]]1604** **--** Defeat of the Spanish armada**,** decline of the Spanish Empire
 * 1608** **--** Founding of Santa Fe; it grew into the capital of the province of New Mexico
 * 1610--** With the newly invented telescope, Gallileo saw the moons of Jupiter, and the mountains of the earth’s moon
 * 1616 --** Tartars of Manchu invade China
 * 1631 --**Taj Mahal has begun construction; the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan commissioned its construction as a mausoleum his favorite wife
 * 1636 --** Harvard College founded
 * 1653 –** Oliver Cromwell takes control of head of state in England.
 * [[image:http://www.tajmahalindia.net/gifs/the-taj-mahal.jpg width="109" height="101"]]1654 --** Taj Mahal is complete
 * 1660 --** Royal Society founded; promoted the learning of Physics and Mathematical

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