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Jan 1, 1300
Renaissance begins
was a cultural movement that spanned the period roughly. -
Jan 1, 1347
Bubonic Plague begins
was a disease transmitted by fleas that lived on black rats that cam over from China on merchant ships. It took out about one-third of Europe's population. -
Jan 1, 1420
Brunelleschi creates Leanear Perspective
Linear perspective is a way of creating a convincing, perfect illusion of space on a flat or two-dimentional surface. -
Oct 12, 1428
Joan of Arc and the Siege of Orleans
she was sent to Siege of Orleans as part of a relief mission. -
Jan 1, 1440
Johann Gutenberg invents the printing press
Was a German man, who introduced pintring to Europe. He invented mechanical movable type printing and started the printing revolution. -
Aug 1, 1462
Cosimo de Medici dies
First of the Medici political dynasty. -
Jan 1, 1478
Spanish Inquisition begins
thought to be purifying the poeple of Spain, by driving out the Jews, Protestants and other non-believers. -
Jan 1, 1486
Sandro Botticelli paints Birth of Venus
Commissioned to paint it for Medici family of Florence. -
Jan 1, 1492
Columbus discovers the America's
Christopher Columbus was a navigator looking for China and Japan when he landed on the America's -
Jan 1, 1495
Da Vinci paints The Last Supper
Commissioned as part of a scheme of renovations to the church. -
Jan 1, 1508
Michelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel
Cornerstone work of Hish Renaissance art. -
Jan 1, 1509
Raphael paints The School of Athens
One of the most famous Frescoes by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. -
Jan 1, 1516
Thomas More :Utopia
His best known and most controversial work. -
Jan 1, 1517
Martin Luther 95 theses
Was widely regarded as the initial catalyst for the Protestant Reformation, -
Jan 1, 1524
Start of the European Wars of Religion
Series of wars waged in Europe following the onset of the Protestant Reformation in Western and Northern Europe. -
Aug 25, 1530
Ivan the terrible is born
Grand Prince of Moscow. -
Jan 1, 1532
Machiavelli writes the Prince
It is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, hitorian and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli. -
Jan 1, 1534
Jesuit Order founded by Ignatius Loyola
Society of Jesus: A Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola to defend catholicism against the Reformation and to do missionary work among heathen -
Jul 12, 1536
Desiderius Eramus dies
Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, and theologian -
Dec 17, 1538
Henry VIII of England excommunicated
Pope Paul III announced King Henry VIII had been excommunicated from the Catholic Church. -
Jan 1, 1543
Scientific Revolution / Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus published his treatise On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres. -
Jan 1, 1557
Spain declares bankruptcy for the 1st time
Philip II of Spain declaired bankruptcy four times the first being in 1557. -
Jan 15, 1559
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth I
She was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty. -
Aug 23, 1572
Saint Bartholomew's Massacre
Was a targeted group of assassinations, followed by a wave of Roman Catholic mob violence. -
Edict of Nantes
Aimed to end the long, disruptive French wars of religion, issued by King Henry IV of France.
