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Renaissance

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  • 1445

    Gutenberg prints the first Bible

    Gutenberg prints the first Bible
    Gutenberg produced what is considered to be the first book ever printed: a Latin language Bible, printed in Mainz, Germany.
  • Jan 1, 1449

    Birth of Lorenzo de’ Medici

    Birth of Lorenzo de’ Medici
    Lorenzo de’ Medici was born in Florence, Italy.
  • 1501

    Michelangelo completes the sculpture the David

    Michelangelo completes the sculpture the David
    Michelangelo was only 26 years old in 1501, but he was already the most famous and best paid artist in his days. He accepted the challenge with enthusiasm to sculpt a large scale David and worked constantly for over two years to create one of his most breathtaking masterpieces of gleaming white marble.
  • 1506

    Leonardo da Vinci completes his painting the Mona Lisa

    Leonardo da Vinci completes his painting the Mona Lisa
    Oil painting on a poplar wood panel by Leonardo da Vinci, probably the world’s most famous painting. It was painted sometime between 1503 and 1519, when Leonardo was living in Florence, and it now hangs in the Louvre Museum, in Paris, where it remained an object of pilgrimage in the 21st century. The sitter’s mysterious smile and her unproven identity have made the painting a source of ongoing investigation and fascination.
  • 1516

    Thomas More publishes Utopia

    Thomas More publishes Utopia
    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).
  • Oct 31, 1517

    Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg

    Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg
    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.
  • 1530

    King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican church

    King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican church
    Henry VIII broke ties with the Pope in the 1530s after the Catholic church wouldn’t allow him to annul his marriage to his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, who failed to produce any male heirs.
  • 1543

    Nicolaus Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres

    Nicolaus 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.
  • 1564

    William Shakespeare is born

    William Shakespeare is born
    William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor of the Renaissance era.