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Jan 1, 1300
Start of Humanist Movement
Early Italian scholars turned to Greek and Roman literature to study grammar,history,poetry and rhetoric. The people who studied these cultures where known as humanists. -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to Dec 31, 1575
Renessance
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Jan 1, 1304
Franchesco Petrarch
Franchesco Petrarch became famous as a scholar and teacher. He was also a poet who wrote sonnets to Laura, a imagineary ideal woman, was considered some of the greatest of poems in literature. -
Jan 1, 1452
Leonardo de vinci is born
Leonardo de Vinci was a achitect, engineer,painter, sculptor, and scientist. He made scatching of plants and animals and also made blueprints for a flying machine and a submarine. -
Jan 1, 1475
Michelangelo is born
Michelangelo is a important painter whom is well known throughout the renessance. Michelangelo is fameous for his work on the sistine chapel frescoes. -
Jan 1, 1500
The Era of Reform begins
Humanists had argued thaat the Roman Catholic church had lost sight of its spiritual mission. The reform movement would split the church in western Europe. -
Jan 1, 1513
The Prince was written
Niccolo' Machiavelli was a Florance diplomat and Historian who did not put tention between spiritual and earthly quests. He wrote The Prince to describe the goverment not in terms of lofty ideals, but in the way it actually worked. -
Jan 1, 1516
Sir Thomas More writes Utopia
Sir Thomas More wrote Utopia to show currupt goverment and argued private ownership of propety causes conflicts between people. -
Jan 1, 1517
95 theses posted on church door
The 95 theses where written by Martin Luther and commented on indulgences. Indulgences where pardons from punishment from sin that where baught almost as a fund raiser for the church. -
Jan 1, 1529
Henry VIII starts denounceing the church
Before 1529 Henry VIII had defended the catholic church and was given the title "Defender of the Faith". Henry Denounced the church because Pope Clement VII would not allow Henry to devorce Catherine of Argon. -
Jan 1, 1562
Civl wars between Huguenots and Catholics.
Huguenots where high ranking nobles who had converted to Calvinism. In 1562, the Huguenots where forced to defend themselves from the Cathloics in a series of bloody civil wars.
