Important+World+Events

=**//Important Events//**=

There were many events in which guided and shaped these movements; many of them being the publishing of literary works.

 * **Title of Book/Document** || **Author/Writer** ||
 * [|"95 Theses"] || Martin Luther ||
 * //[|Candide]// || Voltaire ||
 * //[|Leviathan]// || Thomas Hobbes ||
 * //[|On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres]// || Nicolaus Copernicus ||
 * //[|De Humani Corporis Fabrica]// || Andreas Vesalius ||
 * //[|Discourse on Method]// || René Descartes ||
 * //[|Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica]// || Isaac Newton ||
 * //[|Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems]// || Galileo ||

**Major Events** Events
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 * 1) Indulgences were known to be a "way to buy a passage to heavan". The church used them to gain revenue. Many people bought these Indulgences to safeguard their passage to heavan. These Indulgences are what sparked Martin Luther's ideas and what sparked the Protestant Reformation. Without these, Martin Luther may not have started the Reformation at the time he did.
 * 2) Printing Press allowed for mass distribution of one's ideas. Without the printing press, many ideas of religious leaders may not have been as successful as they were. Only a certain neighborhood would hear about one's idea until the printing press was released.
 * 3) The Peasant's War describes when Martin Luther discussed how religious freedom should be like. This triggered a peasant revolt in Germany, since the peasants believed that they should have more rights than that of what they were receiving. Martin Luther then told the peasants that they are to obey their master, but can practice a religion in their free time.
 * 4) The Peace of Westphalia was the signing of 3 treaties which ended three long wars. The wars ended were the Thirty Years' War, The Eighty Years War, and the war between the Holy Roman Empire and the France and Sweden. With out the ending of the three wars, peace would not have been achieved, which would not have allowed the age of enlightenment to occur.