Renaissance/Reformation/Scientic Revolution

  • 1400

    Johan Gutenberg

    Johan Gutenberg
    Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg also known as Johan Gutenberg is best knon for The invention of the movable-type printing press. he was also a blacksmith.
  • 1400

    Humanism

    Humanism
    Humanism began in late-14th-century Italy, came to maturity in the 15th century, and spread to the rest of Europe after the middle of that century.
  • 1440

    Printing Revolution

    Printing Revolution
    A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium, thereby transferring the ink. Was very widley used
  • 1446

    Perspective

    Perspective
    the art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point.
  • Jan 1, 1449

    Lorenzo de Medici

    Lorenzo de Medici
    Lorenzo de Medici was an Italian statesman. The Italian merchant prince Lorenzo de' Medici called "il Magnifico," ruled both the Florentine state and a vast commercial empire.
  • Apr 15, 1452

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci
    Leonardo was born in Republic of Florence in Italy. Born to unmarried parents.Leonardo became a well known painter. He was most famous art work was the Monia Lisa.
  • Feb 29, 1468

    Pope Paul III

    Pope Paul III
    Alessandro Farnese also known as Pope Paul III. He was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 13 October 1534 to his death in 1549.
  • Feb 9, 1473

    Copernicus

    Copernicus
    Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance-era mathematician and astronomer. Born in poland.
  • Mar 6, 1475

    Michealangelo

    Michealangelo
    Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni also named as Michealangelo was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet. He was born in the Republic of Florence. He was best know for The frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
  • Feb 3, 1478

    Thomas More

    Thomas More
    Thomas More was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman. His most famous work is the Utopia. thomas's Utopia was showing a perfect world what was not actually real.
  • Nov 10, 1483

    Martin Luther

    Martin Luther
    Martin Luther was a German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk, and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation. he died as 63
  • Jun 28, 1491

    Henry VIII

    Henry VIII
    Henry VIII was King of England from 1509 until his death in 1547.
  • Sep 7, 1533

    Elizabeth I

    Elizabeth I
    Elizabeth was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. She was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor.
  • 1545

    Council of Trent

    Council of Trent
    the Council of Trent, held between 1545 and 1563 in Trent, was the 19th ecumenical council of the Catholic Church. Prompted by the Protestant Reformation, it has been described as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation
  • Jan 22, 1561

    Francis Bacon

    Francis Bacon
    Ancis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, PC QC was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England. Best known for his promotion of the scientific method.
  • 1564

    William Shakespear

    William Shakespear
    William was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, in April 1564. he was married at the age of 18. Later in life became a Playwriter,Actor,known as the greatest writer. One of his famous plays were Romeo and Juliet which as also made inot a book.
  • Feb 15, 1564

    Gaileo

    Gaileo
    Galileo Galilei was an astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath from Pisa. Galileo has been called the "father of observational astronomy". He was born in Italy
  • Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton
    Sir Isaac Newton PRS also known as Issac Newton. He was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author
  • Scientific Method

    Scientific Method
    The scientific method is an empirical method of acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th century. It involves careful observation, applying rigorous skepticism about what is observed, given that cognitive assumptions can distort how one interprets the observation.