Lorenzo de' Medici was born January 1st, 1449. He died April 9th, 1492. Lorenzo was a statesman, ruler, and patron of arts and letters. Lorenzo was also the most brilliant of the Medici.
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Jan 1, 1449
Lorenzo de' Medici
Lorenzo was a statesman, ruler, and patron of arts and letters. Lorenzo was also the most brilliant of the Medici. -
Apr 15, 1452
Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci was born in Anchiano, Tuscany which is now Italy. He was close to the town Vinci where he got his name. Da Vinci was known as a famous artist, inventor, and thinker. -
Feb 19, 1473
Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance-era mathematician and astronomer, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at the center of the universe. -
Mar 6, 1475
Michelangelo
He was born in the small village of Caprese. Michelangelo was known as a Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the high Renaissance. -
Apr 6, 1483
Raphael
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement. -
Jun 28, 1491
Henry VIII
Henry VIII was King of England from 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is best known for his six marriages, and, in particular, his efforts to have his first marriage annulled. -
Sep 7, 1533
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death on 24 March 1603. Sometimes called the Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor. -
Jan 22, 1561
Francis Bacon
Lord Verulam, was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England. His works are credited with developing the scientific method and remained influential through the scientific revolution. -
1564
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". -
Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton PRS was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution. -
Humanism
system of education and mode of inquiry that originated in northern Italy during the 13th and 14th centuries and later spread through continental Europe and England. The term is alternatively applied to a variety of Western beliefs, methods, and philosophies that place central emphasis on the human realm. -
Perspective
a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view. -
Printing Revolution
In Germany, around 1440, goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, which started the Printing Revolution. Modelled on the design of existing screw presses, a single Renaissance printing press could produce up to 3,600 pages per workday, compared to forty by hand-printing and a few by hand-copying. -
Inquisition
The Inquisition, in historical ecclesiastical terminology also referred to as the "Holy Inquisition", was a group of institutions within the Catholic Church whose aim was to combat heresy. Torture and violence were used by Inquisition for eliciting confessions from heretics. This started November 1, 1478, in Spain. -
Scientific Method
The scientific method is an empirical method of acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th century. It involves careful observation, applying rigorous skepticism about what is observed, given that cognitive assumptions can distort how one interprets the observation.
