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1400AD -- 1800AD - TIME LINES

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

WORLD/SECULAR HISTORYyear/month/dayChristian 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. 
 1412-1431Joan of Arc
 1415John Huss Burned at the Stake
Movable type is invented 1434 
 1439 Greek and Roman Churches united under the Pope
 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 
 1478-1834Spanish Inquisition
 1478Establishment of the Spanish Inquisition
 1483-1546Martin Luther
 1484-1531Ulrich Zwingli
 1489-1556Thomas Cranmer
 1491-1556Ignatius Loyola
 1492All Jews banished from Spain.
Columbus reaches America 1492 
 1498Savonarola Executed
   

1500-1650 High Renaissance

  
 1509-1564John Calvin
 1512Michelangelo Completes the Sistine Chapel Ceiling
 1513-1572John Knox
 1516Erasmus' Greek New Testament
 1517Martin Luther Posts His Ninety-five Theses
 1519Zurich Reformation begins
 1520Anabaptist movement begins
 1523Zwingli Leads Swiss Reformation
 1525Anabaptist Movement Begin
 1534Jesuit Society is founded
 1534English Act of Supremacy
 1534Henry VIII's Act of Supremacy
 1536John Calvin Publishes The Institute of the Christian Religion
 1540The Pope Approves the Jesuits
 1541Calvin establishes Geneva theocracy
 1545Opening of the Council of Trent
 1549 Christianity introduced to Japan
 1549 Cramner Produces the Book of Common Prayer
 1559 John Knox Returns to Scotland to Lead Reformation
Galileo 1564-1642 
Mercator produced a world Map 1569 
 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
 1611Publication of the King James Bible
 1618-1648Thirty Years' War
Kepler's Laws 1618 
 1620Pilgrims land on Plymouth Rock
 1620Pilgrims Sign the Mayflower Compact
 1624-1850Deism
 1624-1691 George Fox - a preacher and founder of the Quakers
 1628Comenius Driven From His Homeland
Locke 1632-1704 
 1635-1750Philip Jacob Spencer
English (Puritan) Revolution 1640-1658 
Newton 1642-1726 
 1646The Westminster Confession of Faith
 1648George Fox Founds the Society of Friends
 1650Quakers are founded
   
1500-1650 High Renaissance  
   
The Enlightenment 1650-1800  
 1662Rembrandt Completes The Return of the Prodigal Son
 1675Philip Jacob Spener Publishes Pia Desideria
 1678John Bunyan The Pilgrim's Progress Published
 1678Pilgrim's Progress
 1685The Births of Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frederic Handel
 1691  George fox dies 13th January 1691
John Harrison Clockmaker 1693-1776 
 1703-1758Jonathan Edwards
 1707Publication 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 
 1715-1770George Whitfield
Bank notes used in England 1718 
 1726First Great Awakening begins
Coffee planted in Brazil 1727 
 1727Awakening at Hernhut Launches Moravian Brethren
 1735Great Awakening Under Jonathan Edwards
Rubber introduced to Europe from Central America 1736 
 1738John 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
Celcius devised Centigrade scale 1742 
Kant 1742-1804 
Fahrenheit (1686?1736), discovered Temperature scale 1746 
First Dictionary 1755 
Mozart 1756-1791 
  Mid 18th cent.Major denominations Establish American organizations
 1759-1833William Wilberforce
 1761-1834William Carey
 1768-1834F. Schleiermacher
Beethoven 1770-1827 
Hegel 1770-1831 
 1772Circuit riders begin their ministry
Longitude Solution - John Harrison clockmaker 1773 
American Revolution 1775-1783 
 1780Robert Raikes Begins Sunday Schools
French Revolution 1789-1799 
 1890 Revival - Charles Finney
 
 
Industrial RevolutionMid 18th-early 20thcent. 
Restoration Movement19th cent. 
Liberalism/Modernism19th-20thcent. 
Metric system introduced to France 1793 
 1793William Carey Sails for India
 1799-1807 The Second Great Awakening
  1800-present Modern Church
 1800-1830sSecond Great Awakening
 1800revival
 1800Society of Biblical Literature
 1801-1890John Henry
Atomic theory 1802 
 1807The British Parliament Votes to Abolish the Slave Trade
 1807Robert Morrison 1st missionary to China. Translated the Chinese Bible
Darwin 1809-1882 
 1811The Campbells Begin the Disciples of Christ
 1812Adoniram and Ann Judson Sail for India
 1812Moses Hess
 1813-1883Soren Kierkegaard
 1816Richard Allen Founds African Methodist Episcopal Church
  1817Elizabeth Fry Begins Ministry to Women in Prison
   

 

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