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Dante writes his epic poem the Divine Comedy.
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Clement V moves the papacy to Avignon, in a move which is expected to be temporary but which lasts for nearly seventy years
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The first great humanist, Petrarch, is named the poet laureate of Rome.
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A timeline of the renaissance and the impact on France.
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The French cardinals, objecting to the new Italian pope, elect their own man as Clement VII - and thus inaugurate the Great Schism of the papacy
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Cosimo de' Medici, arrested by a rival faction, escapes with his life thanks to bribes and well-placed friends
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The Medici family ruled Florance throughout the Rennaisance. They placed a heavier burden on wealthier people to make improvements in the city.
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The Medici family became the head city-state of Florance.
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Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press.
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The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Constantinople, signaling an end to the Byzantine Empire.
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Oil paints, long familiar in the Netherlands, begin to be adopted in Italy in place of tempera
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Lorenzo de Medici becomes head of the city-state of Florence. He is one of the great patrons of the arts.
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Henry VII becomes king of England beginning the reign of the House of Tudor.
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Boticelli completes the painting The Birth of Venus.
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Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain with 3 ships, the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria. On October 12, he reached land and that is now America.
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Leonardo Di'vinci paints the Last Supper.
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Henry VII was the king until he had a seizure and dies, which is when his 14-year-old son had to take his place.
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Michelangelo begins his work on the sculpture David.
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Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa.
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Michaelangelo started painting the Sistine Chapel and it took four years to paint, so it was finished in 1512
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Humanist author Erasmus writes Praise of Folly.
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Raphael paints his masterpiece The School of Athens.
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Sir Thomas More publishes his work Utopia on political philosophy.
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Sir Thomas More publishes his work Utopia on political philosophy.
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Martin Luther posts his 95 theses on the door of the Church of Wittenberg. This signals the start of the Reformation.
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Martin Luther challenges the traditional practices of the church and Pope Leo X. Luther believed that a persons wealth should not impact their status in the afterlife.
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Ferdinand Magellan begins his voyage around the world.
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Rome is sacked by the troops of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V.
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Zwingli stressed salvation by faith alone and opposed Catholic practices like the sale of indulgences, which made a war break out between Zwingli's followers and a Catholic army. Zwingli was defeated.
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The Anabaptists only baptized adult members. Many Anabaptists moved to North America because they did not agree that you needed to be old enough to make the decision to get baptized.
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Henry VIII separates the Church of England from the Catholic Church of Rome so that he can divorce Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn.
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Elizabeth I becomes Queen of England.
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The Spanish Armada is defeated by the English navy.
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William Shakesphere built the Glode theater. Over the next few years, he wrote many of his most famous plays, one being Hamlet.
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William Shakespeare builds the Globe theatre. He will write many of his great plays over the next few years including Hamlet and Macbeth.
