Renaissance

  • Period: Jan 1, 1449 to Apr 9, 1492

    Lorenzo de' Medici

    He ruled Florence with his younger brother they ruled since 1478 until he died. He was one of the most powerful renaissance who lived for a long time. He was known for the magnificent, scholars, and arts.
  • Period: Jan 28, 1457 to May 9, 1483

    henry tudor

    henry tudor was born on 28 January 1457 in Pembroke, wales. His father, Edmund tudor, had died two months earlier and his mother, Margaret Beaufort was just thirteen.
  • Period: Jan 28, 1491 to May 10, 1499

    Henry VIII

    He was born January 28, 1491 the second son of henry VII the first English ruler from the house of tudor.
  • Period: Jan 9, 1492 to Jan 10, 1502

    columbus discovers america

    The explorer Christopher Columbus made four trips across the Atlantic ocean from spain. He was determined to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia, but he never did.
  • Period: May 8, 1495 to

    Davinici paints

    Leonardo da vinci The last supper is one of the most admired, most studied, and most reproduced paintings the world has ever known. But no matter how many times you've seen it, we'll bet you don't know these details.
  • Period: Jun 9, 1499 to Jun 10, 1500

    Michelangelo David

    For Michelangelo David proved to be a defining moment in his artistic career. The story begins with a commission for a statue of David dating as far as 1466 when the artist Agostino di duccio began work on the marble block.
  • Period: May 8, 1508 to May 9, 1512

    michelangelo starts the sistine chapel

    To any visitor of Michelangelo's Sistine chapel, two features become immediately and undeniably apparent) the ceiling is really high up, and 2) there are a lot of painting up there.
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    Shakespeare

    The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It built in 1599 by Shakespeare playing company the lord chamberlain men on land owned by Thomas Brend and inherited by his son Nicholas Brend and grandson Sir Matthew Brend and was destroyed by fire on 29 june 1613.
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    Gutenberg invents printing press

    A press is a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium.
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    Martin luther

    Acting on this belief, he wrote the ''Disputation on the power and efficacy of Indulgences,''