A TIMELINE Worksheet

A TIMELINE Worksheet

Next, we have another struggle for power, but this time in the papacy. It was known as 1-..........................of 1378, when two popes both claimed authority over the Catholic Church. Again, this caused a bit of a problem. Because of this, we need to include the Council of Constance, lasting through the years 1414-1418, which ends the aforementioned Great Schism.

Mid-Late 1400s
On more of an up note, we can also include the invention of 2-.........................by Johann Gutenberg in 1448. This invention forever changed world communication.

On a down note, while Gutenberg is printing, people are still fighting as Constantinople falls to the Turks in the year 1453, thus ending 3-.........,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
To take a break from all the fighting, we have another high point as Columbus sails in 1492. Here, I feel we should just take a moment and honor elementary school teachers all over the land by simply saying, 'Columbus sailed the ocean blue in Fourteen Hundred and Ninety Two!'

Early-Mid 1500s
As Mikelangelo was painting, others were writing. We have Martin Luther nailing his 4-..............................to the doors at Wittenberg in the year 1517. This work not only changed the religious landscape of much of Northern Europe but also caused some real trouble for its author,

In 1545, we have 5-............................a series of three meetings held by the Catholic Church in order to answer the charges of the Reformation and to dogmatically solidify its beliefs. To this day, it's considered one of the most important councils of Catholic history.

Late 1500s - Early 1600s
In 1555, with the Holy Roman Empire continuing to weaken, the Peace of Augsburg was enacted, giving the princes of Germany the right to practice Catholicism or Lutheranism as they each saw fit.

Adding to the religious and political upheaval on the continent was 6-.............................., beginning in 1568, in which the Dutch territories fought for their freedom.

Just when things seemed like they couldn't get more upside down and sideways on the continent of Europe, along comes 7-...................... of 1618 - one of the most damaging conflicts in European history, in which most of Central Europe became engulfed in a battle that began as Catholic versus Protestant but soon degraded into a race for European preeminence.

And this brings us to our last timeline entry, 8-......................... a series of several treaties finally ratified in 1648, bringing an end to both the Eighty and Thirty Years' Wars of Europe.

the Great Schism
the printing press
95 Theses
the Thirty Years' War
the Eighty Years' War,
the Council of Trent
the War of the Roses,
the Byzantine Empire
the invasion of the Spanish Armada
The Peace of Westphalia