Renaissance

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  • 1202

    Transmission of Greek text during 4th Crusade

    Transmission of Greek text during 4th Crusade
    It opens the door to learning.
  • Jan 1, 1449

    Birth of Lorenzo De' Medici

    Birth of Lorenzo De' Medici
    The most famous patron of Renaissance culture.
  • 1455

    Gutenberg prints the first Bible

    Gutenberg prints the first Bible
    In 1455, Gutenberg produced what is considered to be the first book ever printed: a Latin language Bible, printed in Mainz, Germany.
  • 1503

    Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa

    Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
    he Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci that has been described as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world".
  • 1504

    Michelangelo sculpts the David

    Michelangelo sculpts the David
    This astonishing Renaissance sculpture was created between 1501 and 1504. It is a 14.0 ft marble statue depicting the Biblical hero David, represented as a standing male nude.
  • 1516

    Thomas More writes Utopia

    Thomas More writes Utopia
    Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More (1478–1535) published in 1516 in Latin.
  • 1517

    Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church

    Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church
    Martin Luther posts his 95 theses. On this day in 1517, the priest and scholar 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.
  • 1543

    Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres

    Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres
    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
    Was a famous play writer.

  • King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican church

    King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican church
    Under King Henry VIII in the 16th century, the Church of England broke with Rome, largely because Pope Clement VII refused to grant Henry an annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon.

  • Galileo invents a thermometer

    Galileo invents a thermometer
    lthough named after the 16th–17th-century physicist Galileo, the thermometer described in this article was not invented by him. Galileo did invent a thermometer, called Galileo's air thermometer (more accurately termed a thermoscope), in or before 1603.