World History 1600-1850

pre1600–1850 - History to cover in conjuction with US History

1444-1510	Italian Painter, Botticelli.	Birth of Venus
1452-1519	Italian Artist/Inventor/Sculptor/Architect, Leonardo da Vinci.
1454	Gutenburg invented his printing press.
1466-1536	Dutch scholar Erasmus.
1469-1527	Italian writer Machiavelli
1473-1543	Polish Astronimer, Copernicus
1475-1564	Italian Artist, Michaelangelo
1564-1642	Italian Astronomer, Galileo
1514-1564 1578-1657	Belgian Doctor Vesalius English Doctor Harvey
1600	Invention of the telescope and microscope
1642-1727	English Scientist Newton
1492	First Voyage of Christopher Columbus
1564-1616	Life of William Shakespeare
1577-1580	Francis Drake sails around the world
1584	Walter Raleigh set up colony in Virginia
1603	Ends Tudors/The Elizabethans
1607	Jamestown
1623-1639	All Europeans, except a few Dutch left Japan
	Inventions in Science and Industry Merchants and Trading 1756-1791 Life of Mozart
	Sports and Pastimes : tennis, cock fighting, fox hunting, cricket club, gambling, fencing, shooting, boxing 1700-1800 The Agricultural Revolution 1750-1850 The Industrial Revolution