dipity

Created by lcordell on Dec 10, 2010

Last updated: 12/10/10 at 02:20 PM

• Dipity Timeline Created
  Dec 10, 2010 1:10 PM

• 95 Theses
  Oct 31, 1517

  Martin Luther's protest against church abuses, most notably indulgences, sparks the Protestant Reformation.
  http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/text/wittenberg/luther/web/ninetyfive.html

• Reconquista complete
  Jul 1, 1492

  The last Muslim stronghold on the Iberian peninsula, Granada, was handed over to Ferdinand and Isabella.
  http://www.zum.de/whkmla/military/15cen/granada14911492.html

• Gutenberg Bible
  1454

  The first main work produced on Gutenberg's moveable type printing press. Soon the presses would be producing books of all sorts leading to a revolution in thinking as well as printing.
  http://www.bl.uk/treasures/gutenberg/homepage.html

• Hundred Years' War Ends!
  Oct 19, 1453

  The French retake Bordeaux and England is left only the port city of Calais which they would hold until 1557.
  http://www.vlib.us/medieval/lectures/hundred_years_war.html

• Fall of Constantinople
  Jul 1, 1453

  Constantinople, founded in 330 CE by Constantine as the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, fell to the Ottoman Turks and Sultan Mehmed II.
  http://www.thenagain.info/webchron/easteurope/fallconstantin.html

• Brunelleschi's Dome
  1436

  The first major dome to rise since the classical world.