Renaissance

By morganc5
  • Period: Mar 9, 1400 to

    Rennaisance

    time of rebirth after middle ages where art and science flourished
  • Mar 9, 1440

    Printing Press created

    Printing Press created
    Johannes Guttenberg created the printing press. This is what help jump start the rennaisance.
  • Mar 9, 1498

    Leonardo Da Vinci creates painting, "the last supper"

    Leonardo Da Vinci creates painting, "the last supper"
    Da Vinci finishes the Last supper which was a painting of the last supper with Jesus and the 12 apostles. It is believed that Da Vinci made himself one of the apostles in the painting.
  • Mar 9, 1501

    Statue of David created

    Statue of David created
    Between 1501 and 1504 Michelangelo did the statue of david (made after the david from the biblical story "David and Goliath"
  • Mar 9, 1504

    Leonardo Da Vinci creates the Mona Lisa

    Leonardo Da Vinci creates the Mona Lisa
    Between the years of 1503 and 1506 Da Vinci creates the Mona Lisa, it is still unclear who the woman in the picture is.
  • Apr 9, 1508

    Michelangelo creates sistine chapel ceiling

    Michelangelo creates sistine chapel ceiling
    Julius the second summoned Michelangelo to Rome to create the artwork on the ceiling of sistine chapel
  • Mar 9, 1510

    Copernicus develops theory of sun-centered solar system.

    Copernicus develops theory of sun-centered solar system.
    Nicolaus Copernicus develops theory between 1507 and 1515 that the solar system is sun-centered
  • Feb 8, 1517

    Rafael directed the construction of St. Peter's church

    Rafael directed the construction of St. Peter's church
    From 1514, until his death in 1520 Rafael directed the construction of St. Peter's church in Rome
  • Mar 9, 1535

    Mercator makes maps for rich individuals

    Mercator makes maps for rich individuals
    Mercator was a map maker who is credited as being the first map maker to use longitude and latitude between 1535 and 1536.
  • Mar 9, 1553

    Benedetti proves Aristotles theory about heavy and light objects wrong

    Benedetti proves Aristotles theory about heavy and light objects wrong
    Benedetti does an expirement where he takes a heavy ball and a light ball and drops them at the same time to see that weight doesn't matter to gravity as long as the objects get the same lift.

  • Galileo creates telescope

    Galileo creates telescope
    In July of 1609 Galileo created a device called the telescope that let you see things farther away than what you could see with the naked eye.

  • William Harvey publishes that heart acts as pump for musceles and blood

    William Harvey publishes that heart acts as pump for musceles and blood
    William Harvey publishes an idea that states that the heart is the center of a major pump that pumps blood to every part of the body