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1400AD -- 1800AD - TIME LINES

Approximately 3 A4  pages from 1400AD-1800AD set up so you can print them.

 

WORLD/SECULAR HISTORY year/month/day Christian History and Jewish History
Historical events in Politics and Business   Events and history that happened in both faiths
     including Christian & Jewish persons
     
  October 1400  Chaucer murdered?
Ockham's razor Mid 14th cent.  
  1412-1431 Joan of Arc
  1415 John Huss Burned at the Stake
Movable type is invented 1434  
  1452-1519  Leonardo Da Vinci
  1456  Johann Gutenberg Produces the First Printed Bible
F.Schleiermacher 1468-1834  
  1469-1536   Erasmus
Copernicus 1473-1543  
Michelangelo by Leonardo Da Vinci 1475-1564  
  1478-1834 Spanish Inquisition
  1478 Establishment of the Spanish Inquisition
  1483-1546 Martin Luther
  1484-1531 Ulrich Zwingli
  1489-1556 Thomas Cranmer
  1491-1556 Ignatius Loyola
  1492 All Jews banished from Spain.
Columbus reaches America 1492  
  1498 Savonarola Executed
     

1500-1650 High Renaissance

   
  1509-1564 John Calvin
  1512 Michelangelo Completes the Sistine Chapel Ceiling
  1513-1572 John Knox
  1516 Erasmus’ Greek New Testament
  1517 Martin Luther Posts His Ninety-five Theses
  1519 Zurich Reformation begins
  1520 Anabaptist movement begins
  1523 Zwingli Leads Swiss Reformation
  1525 Anabaptist Movement Begin1
  1534 Jesuit Society is founded
  1534 English Act of Supremacy
  1534 Henry VIII's Act of Supremacy
  1536 John Calvin Publishes The Institute of the Christian Religion
  1540 The Pope Approves the Jesuits
  1541 Calvin establishes Geneva theocracy
  1545 Opening of the Council of Trent
  1549  Cramner Produces the Book of Common Prayer
  1559  John Knox Returns to Scotland to Lead Reformation
Galileo 1564-1642  
  1572  Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre
  1593  English separatists are called Puritans
Descartes 1596-1650  
     
1350-1500 Renaissance   1600-1800 Early Modern Church
Rembrandt 1606-1669  
  1608-1609  John Smyth Baptizes the First Baptist
  1611 Publication of the King James Bible
  1618-1648 Thirty Years' War
Kepler's Laws 1618  
  1620 Pilgrims land on Plymouth Rock
  1620 Pilgrims Sign the Mayflower Compact
  1624-1850 Deism
  1624-1691   George Fox - a preacher and founder of the Quakers
  1628 Comenius Driven From His Homeland
Locke 1632-1704  
  1635-1750 Philip Jacob Spener
English (Puritan) Revolution 1640-1658  
Newton 1642-1726  
  1646 The Westminster Confession of Faith
  1648 George Fox Founds the Society of Friends
  1650 Quakers are founded
     
1500-1650 High Renaissance    
     
The Enlightenment 1650-1800    
  1662 Rembrandt Completes The Return of the Prodigal Son
  1675 Philip Jacob Spener Publishes Pia Desideria
  1678 John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress Published
  1678 Pilgrim's Progress
  1685 The Births of Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frederic Handel
  1691   George fox dies 13th January 1691
John Harrison Clockmaker  1693-1776  
  1703-1758 Jonathan Edwards
  1707 Publication of Isaac Watt's Hymns and Spiritual Songs
Hume 1711-1776  
Steam engine 1712  
Queen Anne of England    
Longitude Act - London England  July 8 1714  
  1715-1770 George Whitfield
  1726 First Great Awakening begins
  1727 Awakening at Hernhut Launches Moravian Brethren
  1735 Great Awakening Under Jonathan Edwards
  1738 John Wesley's Conversion
  1741  Start of first U.S. Revival - George Whitfield
  1741-1743  The First Great Awakening - The Revivals are in about 50-year cycles
Kant 1742-1804  
Mozart 1756-1791  
  Mid 18th cent. Major denominations Establish American organizations
  1761-1834 William Carey
  1768-1834 F. Schleiermacher
Beethoven 1770-1827  
Hegel 1770-1831  
  1772 Circuit riders begin their ministry
Logitude Soliution - John Harrison clockmaker  1773  
American Revolution 1775-1783  
  1780 Robert Raikes Begins Sunday Schools
French Revolution 1789-1799  
  1890  Revival - Charles Finney
 
 
Industrial Revolution Mid 18th-early 20th cent.  
Restoration Movement 19th cent.  
Liberalism/Modernism 19th-20th cent.  
  1793 William Carey Sails for India
  1799-1807  The Second Great Awakening
    1800-present Modern Church
  1800-1830s Second Great Awakening
  1800 revival
  1800 Society of Biblical Literature
  1801-1890 John Henry
Atomic theory 1802  
  1807 The British Parliament Votes to Abolish the Slave Trade
  1807 Robert Morrison 1st missionary to China. Translated the Chinese Bible
Darwin 1809-1882  
  1811 The Campbells Begin the Disciples of Christ
  1812 Adoniram and Ann Judson Sail for India
  1812 Moses Hess
  1813-1883 Soren Kierkegaard
  1816 Richard Allen Founds African Methodist Episcopal Church
  1817 Elizabeth Fry Begins Ministry to Women in Prison
     

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