Renaissance and Reformation Timeline

Eyeglasses

1284

There are no clear records available as to who invented eyeglasses. Salvino D'Armato degli Armati from Italy is credited with making wearable eyeglasses in 1284.
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Dante (Italy) The Divine Comedy

1320

Poems about the soul's journey to salvation. He goes through an imaginary journey to Hell/Purgatory/and Heaven (or paradise).
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Social Classes

1350

Nobility was 2-3% of the population, Townspeople took up 7-13% of the population, and Peasants took up a whopping 85-90% of the population.
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Between 1350 and 1550

Family

1350

Families provided security and because of this, marriages were carefully arranged to enhance ties to others in the community.
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Between 1350 - 1550

Chaucer (England) The Canterbury Tales

1387

Collection of stories told by 29 pilgrims going to the Tomb of St. Thomas Beckett, in Canterbury, England.
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Trade During the Renaissance

1400

Trade enabled a mixture of goods to travel from place to place and influenced a great number of people during the Renaissance. Late 1400s - early 1500s
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Christine de Pizan (France) The Book of The City of Ladies

1405

Argued that women would be just as intelligent and successful as men if they were given the same educational opportunities as man.
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The Medici's

1434

Cosimo de Medici took over the city of Florence. Cosimo and the rest of his family ran the government unknown behind the scenes. Textbook

Popes

1450

From 1450 to 1520, a series of popes - known as the Renaissance Popes - failed to meet the Church's spiritual needs. The Popes were supposed to be spiritual leaders, however they were more concerned with Italian politics.
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Relics

1450

Prince Fredrick the Wise, Luther's prince, had amassed over 5,000 relics. Collections of Relics became more popular as a means ti salvation.
1450-1520
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Gutenberg's Press

1455

In 1455, Johannes Gutenberg produced the first printed book, a Bible, in Germany.
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Leonardo Da Vinci Catapult

1482

Pen and ink drawing of a catapult by Leonardo Da Vinci. Sometime during the 1480’s Da Vinci drafted two designs using a leaf spring system: the single arm catapult and the double arm catapult. http://www.davincilife.com/catapult.html

Frescoes

1490

A Fresco is a painting done on fresh, wet plaster with water-based paints. In the Renaissance, Raphael and Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci also painted Frescoes.
https://quatr.us/art/fresco-painting-art-history.htm

Medici Family Returns to Power

1498

Eventually people got tired of Savonarola's strict rules and guidelines on gambling, horse racing, and other activities they enjoyed.
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The Last Supper

1498

Painted by Leonardo Da Vinci, this showed his knowledge of geometry led him to use linear perspective.
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Statue of David

1501

Michelangelo's David stood in the main plaza of Florence for almost 400 years as a symbol of the city.
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The Mona Lisa

1503

Leonardo painted this portrait of a women named Lisa Del Giocondo. He used Oil Paints to paint the portrait during the Renaissance.
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Indulgences

1503

The Catholic had authorized Johann Tetzel to sell indulgences to raise money to build St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
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Creation of Adam

1512

In Michelangelo's God Creates Adam painting, it shows humans interacting with God. This was painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
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St. John the Baptist

1513

St. John the Baptist is a High Renaissance oil painting on walnut wood by Leonardo Da Vinci.
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Submarine (Leonardo Da Vinci)

1515

Leonardo Da Vinci sketched the first ever submarine around 1515, and in 1578. However, Cornelius van Drebbel was the one who successfully developed the submarine in 1624.
https://science.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-submarine1.htm

Ninety-Five Theses

1517

When Luther wrote his Ninety-Five Theses, his intention was to open a dialogue on abuses in the Catholic Church.
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A Break With The Church

1520

By 1520, Luther had begun to move toward a more definite break in the Catholic Church. He called on German princes to overthrow the papacy in Germany and establish a reformed German church.
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Lutheranism

1524

In June 1524, German peasants revolted against their lords and looked to Luther to support their cause.
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Mechanical Clock

1581

The first mechanical clock was invented during the early Renaissance. The first major improvements were made by Galileo who also invented the Pendulum.
https://www.ducksters.com/history/renaissance_science.php