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1575 BCE
leonardo davincipaints the mona lisa
The Mona Lisa - by Leonardo Da Vinci. Portrait of Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo; This painting is painted as oil on wood. The original painting size is77 x 53 cm (30 x 20 7/8 in) and is owned by by the Government of France and is on the wall in the Louvre in Paris, France. -
Period: 1501 BCE to 1504 BCE
michaelangelo sculpts the david
David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created in marble between 1501 and 1504 by the Italian artist Michelangelo. David is a 5.17-metre (17.0 ft) marble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the Biblical hero David, a favoured subject in the art of Florence. -
Period: 1492 BCE to 1492 BCE
columbus discovers new world
On August 3, 1492, Columbus set sail from Palos, Spain, with three small ships, the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina. On October 12, the expedition reached land, probably Watling Island in the Bahamas.Nov 24, 2009 -
1473 BCE
nicolas copernicus publishes on the revolution of the celestial spheres
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres), written by Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) 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. -
Period: 1469 BCE to 1488 BCE
Renaissance TIme Line Events (1300-1600)
Born: January 1, 1449, Florence, Italy
Died: April 8, 1492, Villa Medici at Careggi
Florentines, he was a magnate, diplomat, politician and patron of scholars, artists and poets. -
Period: 1455 BCE to 1455 BCE
gutenburg prints first bible
In 1455, Gutenberg produced what is considered to be the first book ever printed: a Latin language Bible, printed in Mainz, Germany. -
Period: 1509 to 1509
john calvn publishes intsitues of christian religion
Background. Born on July 10, 1509, in Noyon, Picardy, France, John Calvin was a law student at the University of Orléans when he first joined the cause of the Reformation. In 1536, he published the landmark text Institutes of the Christian Religion, an early attempt to standardize the theories of Protestantism.Apr 2, 2014 -
Period: 1513 to 1513
nicolo wites the prince
The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus. Wikipedia -
Period: 1513 to 1513
niccolo machiavelli writes the prince
he Prince is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus. Wikipedia -
Period: 1517 to 1517
martin luther 95 theses
October 31, 1517 Luther defiantly nailed a copy of his 95 Theses to the door of the Wittenberg Castle church. -
Period: 1564 to 1579
william shakespere is born
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galileo invents the thermometer
In 1593, Galileo Galilei discovered that the density of liquids (how much they contract and expand) reacts predictably to changes in temperature. Armed with this discovery, he invented a device that allowed temperature variations to be measured.Aug 18, 2014
