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Period: Dec 1, 1450 to
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Oct 30, 1452
Johan Gutenberg invents the Printing Press
The Printing Press made it faster to creat books. Because of this creation more people learned how to read and write. -
May 29, 1453
Fall of Constantinople to the Turks
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Oct 19, 1453
The hundred years' war ends
The Hundred Years' War was a long struggle between England and France over succession to the French throne. It lasted from 1337 to 1453, so it might more accurately be called the "116 Years' War." -
Dec 13, 1466
Donatello creates his David statue
The statue represents the biblical hero David.Because of the nature of the hero it represented, the statue soon came to symbolize the defense of civil liberties embodied in the Republic of Florence -
Aug 15, 1483
Michelangelo paints the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
The Sistine Chapel is known even today for electing a new pope. All the painting Michelangelo painted at the chapel are stories and history of the catholic church . -
Apr 30, 1509
Raphael paints School of Athens
The Stanza della Segnatura was the first of the rooms to be decorated. Raphael. The paintings became more popular over the years. -
Aug 12, 1512
Leonardo Da Vinci starts the Mona Lisa
The King of France bought Mona Lisa for four thousand gold crowns. -
Dec 22, 1513
Machiavelli writes The Prince
The treatise is the most remembered of Machiavelli's works and the one most responsible for bringing the word "Machiavellian" into usage as a pejorative. Five years later Machiavelli died. -
Oct 31, 1517
Martin Luther posts his 95 Thesis
Luther came up with 95 problems with the church.He then started the Protestant refermation. -
May 19, 1536
Anne Boleyn is executed
Henery VIII exicuted his wife. His wife allows Henery to have a son with Jane Seymore. -
Oct 12, 1537
Edward VI is born
Edward was the only son of Henry VIII born. The Anglican church became solidified. -
Apr 19, 1541
Ignatius of Loyola founds the Jesuit order
He started his own order of priests. He then refocuses the church on education. -
Nov 17, 1558
Elizabeth I becomes Queen
The only Anglican daughter became Queen. They began the start of the Elizabethin age. -
William Shakespeare dies
The cause of Shakespeare's death is a mystery, but an entry in the diary of John Ward, the vicar of Holy Trinity Church in Stratford (where Shakespeare is buried), tells us that "Shakespeare, Drayton, and Ben Jonson had a merry meeting and it seems drank too hard, for Shakespeare died of a fever there contracted.
