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1347
The black plague
It was the most devastating bubonic plague pandemic in human history, affecting Eurasia and North Africa in the 14th century, and reaching a peak between 1347 and 1353. It wiped out a third of the population of Europe and was repeated in successive waves until 1490. -
Period: 1377 to 1446
Filippo Brunelleschi
He was one of the most important architects of the Renaissance, inventor of linear perspective with a single vanishing point and author of the famous dome of Santa María del Fiore in Florence. -
Period: 1448 to 1449
The siege of Orleans
It marked a turning point in the Hundred Years' War between France and England. The siege took place at the height of English power during the latter stages of the war, but was repulsed by French forces inspired by the arrival of Joan of Arc. -
Period: 1451 to 1506
Christopher Columbus
He was an Italian explorer from Genoa. His four Renaissance voyages across the Atlantic changed the course of world history. Funded by Spanish royalty, he sailed west with wooden ships in search of a route to China and instead found the “New World.” -
Period: 1468 to 1470
Johannes Gutenburg
With the invention of the printing press with movable metal type in the 1450s, this German blacksmith and publisher made texts more accessible in Europe. -
1485
The birth of Venus
The birth of Venus is part of the sensitivity of the Renaissance, a time in which the representation of the myths of Classical Antiquity was renewed, in which the Renaissance found hidden truths about human nature.It is a painting made by the Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli -
1509
The school of Athens
The School of Athens exemplifies Renaissance trends and innovations, such as the realistic depiction of human figures, as well as the use of foreshortening and linear perspective, artistic techniques that create the illusion of depth on a two-dimensional surface. -
1558
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth the First
The coronation of Elizabeth I as Queen of the Kingdom of England took place at Westminster Abbey, London, on 15 January 1559. Elizabeth Tudor ascended the throne at the age of 25 following the death of her half-sister, Queen Mary.