Alvey's Renaissance Timeline Project

By samaeltheone
  • Jan 1, 1449

    Birth of Lorenzo de' Medici

  • Period: Jan 1, 1450 to Jan 1, 1455

    Gutenberg prints the first Bible

    Couldn't find exact date
  • Oct 17, 1483

    Spanish Inquisition is introduced

  • Oct 12, 1492

    Colombus discovers the New World

  • Jan 1, 1501

    Michelangelo sculpts the David

    Not exact date
  • Feb 12, 1502

    Vasco da Gama sails to India

  • Period: Jan 1, 1503 to Jan 1, 1506

    Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa

    Not exact date
  • Jan 1, 1512

    Rapheal paints the Transfiguration

    Not exact date
  • Jan 1, 1514

    Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince

    Year
  • Jan 1, 1516

    King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican Church

    Just year
  • Jan 1, 1516

    Thomas More writes Utopia

    Year
  • Oct 31, 1517

    Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church

  • Jan 1, 1534

    Founding of the Society of Jesus by Ignatius of Loyola

    Year
  • Jan 1, 1536

    John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion

    Year
  • Mar 1, 1543

    Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres

    Not right day
  • Jan 1, 1563

    Galileo invents a thermometer

    Just found year
  • Apr 1, 1564

    William Shakespeare is born

    No day

  • King Phillip II of Spain assembles the Spanish Armada

    Could not find date

  • Sir Walter Raleigh tries to establish Roanoke (present-day North Carolina)

  • Elizabeth I begins rule in England