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Renaissance

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  • 1202

    Transmission of Greek Text during 4th Crusade

    Transmission of Greek Text during 4th Crusade
    Opens the door to learning
  • Jan 1, 1449

    Birth of Lorenzo de’ Medici

    Date of birth: January 1, 1449
  • 1455

    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.
  • 1473

    Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial 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.
  • 1503

    Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa

    DescriptionThe 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

    This astonishing Renaissance sculpture was created between 1501 and 1504.
  • 1517

    Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church

    . 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.
  • May 16, 1532

    Thomas More writes Utopia

    DescriptionSir Thomas More, venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. He was also a councillor to Henry VIII, and Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to 16 May 1532
  • 1564

    William Shakespeare is born

    Date of birth: April 1564

  • Galileo invents a thermometer

    Although 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.

  • 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. ... Upon Henry's death, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer began changes that allied the Church of England with the Reformation.