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Renaissance

By Gunnar271828
  • 1375

    Coluccio Salutati Becomes Chancellor of Florence

    first humanist leader of the Renaissance
  • 1415

    Prince Henry Participates in Raids on Portuguese Coast

    Prince Henry The Navigator was from Portughal
  • 1419

    Prince Henry the Navigator Establishes a Navigation School

  • 1433

    Leonardo Bruni Wrote:

    "The whole glory of man lies in activity"
  • 1434

    Cosimo Medici Becomes Leader of Florence

  • Period: 1447 to 1534

    Era of the Renaissance Popes

  • Period: 1449 to 1492

    Life of Lorenzo the Magnificent

    Cosimo di Medici's son
  • 1450

    Portuguese Begin Importing African Slaves

    mid-1400s
  • Period: 1452 to 1519

    Life of Leonardo DaVinci

    a "true Renaissance man"
  • 1460

    Excreabilis Passed

    Pope Pius II declares all appeals to council heretical
  • Period: 1461 to 1485

    Reign of Louis XI (France)

    a Valois ruler
  • Period: 1475 to 1564

    Life of Michelangelo

    he was somewhat crazy
  • 1480

    Rome Becomes Renaissance Leader

    late 1400s
  • Period: 1485 to 1509

    Reign of Henry VII (England)

    a Tudor ruler
  • 1486

    Pico (23 y/o) Claimed:

    he could summarize all human knowledge in 900 theses
  • 1487

    Bartholomew Dias Rounds Cape of Good Hope

  • 1492

    Columbus Discovers the Americas

    "In fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue"
  • 1492

    Spain Concludes its "Reconquista"

    can now begin foreign expansion
  • 1494

    Charles VIII (France) Invades Naples

    Spain was asked to help, then turned on Naples
  • 1494

    Treaty of Tordesillas Signed

    between Spain & Portughal; Portughese got the east part of 46 degrees, 37"- Spain got the west part
  • Period: 1497 to 1499

    Vaso da Gama Sails Around Africa to India and Back

    made HUGE profits
  • 1498

    Savonarola (Priest) Burned at the Stake

    for leading a religious reform movement
  • 1500

    Pedro Cabral Establishes Claim to Brazil

  • 1508

    Michelangelo Commissioned to Repaint Sistene Chapel Cieling

    by Pope Julius II (the "warrior pope")
  • 1513

    The Prince is Written

    by Niccolo Machiavelli
  • Period: 1519 to 1556

    Reign of Charles V (HRE)

    a HAPSBURG! ruler
  • Period: 1519 to 1521

    Hernando Cortes Conquers Tenochtitlan (Mexico)

  • Period: 1521 to 1544

    Hapsburgs-Valois Wars

    HRE vs. France; due to territory disputes
  • 1527

    End of Renaissance

    Spain sacks Rome
  • 1528

    Castiglione Writes "Book of the Courtier"

    a book on gentlemanly behavior
  • 1532

    Pizarro Conquers Peru

    brought back a lot of gold and silver
  • Period: 1577 to 1580

    Francis drake Sails Around the World

    established English claims to west coast of North America

  • Jamestown Founded

    by England

  • French Colonize Quebec

  • New Netherlands and New Amsterdam Settled

  • Plymouth Founded

  • Massachusetts Bay Settled

  • British Capture New Amsterdam

    renamed it "New York"

  • Medici Family Dies Out

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