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MST Timeline
| Event | Year |
|---|---|
| Popes in Avignon | 1305-1378 |
| Hundred Years War | 1338-1453 |
| The Black Plague | 1346-1351 |
| Papal Schism | 1378-1417 |
| Pesants' Revolt in England | 1381 |
| Battle of Kossovo Polye/Ottomans defeat Serbs | 1389 |
| Manuel II in Byzantium | 1391-1425 |
| Manuel II in West | 1399-1402 |
| Battle of Agincourt (English victory against the French army) | 1415 |
| Hussite Wars (Civil War) in Bohemia | 1419-1439 |
| Conquest of Constantinople | 1453 |
| Gutenberg prints Bible | 1453-1455 |
| Ferdinand of Aragon Marries Isabella of Castille | 1469 |
| Portugese at mouth of Congo | 1484 |
| Hapsburg success in Central Europe | 1491 |
| Fall of Granada (end of Reconquista) | 1492 |
| Death of Lorenzo the Magnificent | 1492 |
| Leonardo da Vinci, Last Supper | 1495-1497 |
| Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa | 1503 |
| Erasmus, In Praise of Folly | 1509 |
| Machiavelli, The Prince | 1513 |
| Sack of Rome by troops of Emperor Charles V (Hapsburg) | 1527 |
| The Turks besiege Vienna | 1529 |
| Martin Luther dies (b. 1483) | 1536 |
| Ignatius of Loyola founds Jesuit order | 1534 |
| Thomas More executed | 1535 |
| Copernicus, On the Revolutions of the Spheres | 1543 |
| Coucil of Trent (Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church) | 1545-1563 |
| Henry VIII dies (b. 1491) | 1547 |
| Queen Elizabeth I reign | 1558-1603 |
| Religious wars in France (between French Catholics and Protestant Huguenots) | 1562-1598 |
| Battle of Lepanto (naval battle between Christian Holy League and the Ottomans) | 1571 |
| St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (Roman Catholic mob violence against the Huguenots - French Calvinist Protisants) | 1572 |
| Spanish Armada (Spanish Fleet sailed against England) | 1588 |
| Shakespeare dies (b. 1564) | 1616 |
| Thirty Years War (conflict between Protestants and Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire) | 1618-1648 |
| Descartes, Discourse on the Method | 1637 |
| English Civil War | 1642-1660 |
| Execution of Charles I | 1649 |
| John Milton, Paradise Lost | 1667 |
| Rembrant dies (b. 1606) | 1667 |
| The Turks defeated at Vienna | 1683 |
| Peter the Great's reign | 1682-1721 |
| Newton publishes Principia Mathematica | 1687 |