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The formal history of the Church of England is traditionally dated by the Church to the Gregorian mission to England by Saint Augustine of Canterbury in AD 597
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The Birth of Lorenzo de' Medici.
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Johann Gutenberg holds the distinction of being the inventor of the movable-type printing press. In 1455, Gutenberg produced what is considered to be the first book ever printed: a Latin language Bible, printed in Mainz, Germany.
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De revolutionibus orbium coelestium , written by Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus and published just before his death, placed the sun at the center of the universe and argued that the Earth moved across the heavens as one of the planets.
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David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created in marble between 1501 and 1504 by the Italian artist Michelangelo. David is a 5.17-meter (17.0 ft)[a] marble statue of the Biblical hero David, a favored subject in the art of Florence.
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In 1516 the statesman and scholar Thomas More published a work describing an ideal island state – he called it Utopia. The name derives from the Greek but has a double meaning 'eutopia' (good place) or 'outopia' (no place)
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On October 31, 1517, legend has it that the priest and scholar Martin Luther approaches the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, and nails a piece of paper to it containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation.
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This figure of a woman, dressed in the Florentine fashion of her day and seated in a visionary, mountainous landscape, is a remarkable instance of Leonardo's sfumato technique of soft, heavily shaded modeling. The Mona Lisa's enigmatic expression, which seems both alluring and aloof, has given the portrait universal fame.
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De revolutionibus orbium coelestium written by Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus and published just before his death, placed the sun at the center of the universe and argued that the Earth moved across the heavens as one of the planets.
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According to tradition, the great English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare is born in Stratford-upon-Avon on April 23, 1564
