Module 2

  • Feb 19, 1045

    Bi Sheng

    Bi Sheng had invented a movable type, or seperate piece of type for each character in the language.
  • Feb 19, 1200

    Block-printing

    The block-printed items reached Europe from China.
  • Jan 1, 1300

    Italian Renaissance

    In the 1300s the Renaissance begins in Italian city-states such as Florence, Milan, Mantua.
  • Feb 19, 1400

    Renaissance Ideas

    By the late 1400s, Renaissance ideas had spread to Northern Europe--especially England, France, Germany, and Flanders.
  • Feb 13, 1434

    Medici

    Cosimo de Medici won control over Florence's government.
  • Feb 12, 1440

    Johann Gutenberg

    Johann Gutenberg developed the printing press that incorporated a number of technologies in new ways.
  • Feb 12, 1453

    The End of War

    The destructive Hundred Years' War between France and England ended, many cities grew rapidly.
  • Feb 19, 1455

    Gutenburg Bible

    Using his printing press Gutenburg printed a complete Bible, the Gutenburg Bible.
  • Feb 19, 1460

    Free standing nude

    Donatello made the statue David which was the first free-standing nude since the ancient times.
  • Feb 19, 1494

    French King

    A French King claimed the throne of Naples in Southern Italy and launched an invasion through Nothern Italy.
  • Feb 19, 1509

    Vittoria Colonna

    She was noble born.Vittoria Colonna exchanged sonnets with Michelangelo and helped Castiglione publish The Courtier.
  • Feb 19, 1509

    Erasmus

    Erasmus published his most famous work, The Praise of Folly.
  • Feb 19, 1516

    Thomas More

    Thomas More wrote the book Utopia. It means "no place" in Greek but in English it is an ideal place as depicted in More's book.
  • Feb 19, 1550

    Flemish painting

    Flemish paintings, which are oil-based, reached its peak with the work of Pieter Bruegel the Elder.
  • Shakespeare

    By 1592 he was living in London and was writing plays and poems, and soon he would be performing at the Globe Theatre.