Renaissance

By Tskaggs
  • Jan 1, 1449

    Birth of Lorenzo de’ Medici

  • Jan 1, 1450

    Gutenberg prints the first Bible

  • Jan 1, 1492

    Spanish Inquisition is introduced

  • Jan 1, 1492

    Columbus discovers the new world

  • Jul 8, 1497

    Vasco da Gama sails to India

  • Jan 1, 1501

    Michelangelo sculpts the David

  • Jan 1, 1503

    Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa

  • Jan 1, 1513

    Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince

  • Jan 1, 1515

    Thomas More writes Utopia

  • Jan 1, 1516

    Rapheal paints the Transfiguration

  • Oct 31, 1517

    Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church

  • Jan 1, 1529

    King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican church

  • Jan 1, 1536

    John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion

  • Sep 27, 1540

    Founding of the Society of Jesus by Ignatius of Loyola

  • Jan 1, 1543

    Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres

  • Jan 1, 1558

    Elizabeth I begins rule in England

  • Apr 26, 1564

    William Shakespeare is born

  • Sir Walter Raleigh tries to establish Roanoke

  • ing Phillip II of Spain assembles the Spanish Armada

  • Galileo invents a thermometer