SkillBuilder
Use the SkillBuilder activities to develop these Historical concepts and skills: • HISTORICAL QUESTIONS • CHRONOLOGY
• USING HISTORICAL SOURCES • CONTINUITY AND CHANGE • CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES • HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE • COMMUNICATING
1558 Beginning of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I in England.
1609 Johannes Kepler publishes Astronomia Nova (New Astronomy) .
1633 Galileo Galilei is
1589–1613 William Shakespeare creates most of his known work.
1606 The first landing by Dutch sailors in Australia.
arrested for denying that the Earth is the centre of the universe.
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1562–98 French wars of religion between Catholics and Huguenots (Protestants).
1600 The astronomer Giordano Bruno is burnt at the stake in Rome. By this year an estimated one million African slaves have been transported to Spanish and Portuguese colonies in the Americas.
1618–48 The Thirty Years War kills a third of Germany’s people.
1642 English Civil War breaks out between the Parliament and monarchy.
1555 In Germany, under the Peace of Augsburg, it is agreed that each ruler has the right to determine the religion of his subjects.
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