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1395
Johann Gutenberg
Gutenberg was the inventor who camp up with the first ever movable type. His movable type was the first ever to do the bible. He was born in mainz, Germany. -
1400
Humanism
Was a movement during the Renaissance which turned away from medieval scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Roman and Greek thought. It attached prime importance to human rather than divine. -
1415
perspective
Art of drawing objects in two-dimensional that gives the right height and shape to the object. Fillipo Brunelleshi was the first known artist to make a linear perspective painting. Which started it all. -
1436
Printing Revolution
The printing revolution got help from the printing press. It started to allow more books to come out and so that more people can read. With more books or anything printed the prices got lower because of the production was a lot easier and shorter. -
Apr 15, 1452
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo was a really skilled artist for his time period. He created the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. The art work he was well known for was the Mona Lisa. -
May 3, 1469
Machiavelli
Machiavelli is known for his writing of the "The Prince". He was born in Florence, Italy. He was once jailed because of the power in Italy at the time. -
Feb 19, 1473
Copernicus
He developed the concept of heliocentric solar system. Which is when the sun is actually the middle of the solar system not the earth. His idea was banned in the Church. -
Mar 6, 1475
Michelangelo
Michelangelo was the one of the most highly the most famous artist in Italy during the Renaissance. He created the works of "David" and "Pieta". He was the one who panted the Rome Sistine Chapel ceiling. -
Feb 7, 1478
Thomas More
More wrote the book "Utopia" which is about a perfect society. He was consider a saint to the catholic church for his loyalty of his religion. He was also an important counselor to King Henry VIII. -
Apr 6, 1483
Raphael
Raphael was a high Renaissance classicism. He was best known for his work of "Madonnas". He lived in Florence. -
Nov 10, 1483
Martin Luther
Luther was the at first a monk for the catholic church. Then he started disagreeing with things the church did and started the protestant reformation. With this he started Lutheranism. -
Jun 28, 1491
Henry VIII
Henry VIII is well known for his relationship problems. He got married 6 times, it all started because his first wife didn't have a son and he wanted a son because he did not want a girl running England. That is what started his reformation because the catholic church wasn't gonna let him divorce. -
Jul 10, 1509
John Calvin
Calvin was Luther's successor but then left. He as well as Luther didn't like the church was doing so he followed Luther and began to not agree on what he did. So he went his own way and started his own type of religion. Today we know most of these people by pilgrims. -
1517
Sale of Indulgences
Indulgences was a idea that came from the church. If you didn't want to wait to go to heaven when you died you buy them even better you could of bought them for people who already passed away. People believed this so the church got more money to pay for useless items -
Sep 7, 1533
Elizabeth I
She was the long ruling queen of England. She was the daughter of Henry VIII. She tried to bring catholic back to England -
1543
Heliocentric Theory
This theory was about how the sun is in the middle of the universe. Copernicus was the one who made up the theory and studied. Seeming the church was the head of everything they told him he couldn't say that the sun was because that what they thought. -
1561
Scientific Method
This is the process of experimentation which is to observe and answer questions of science. It is a series of steps that lead to the answer. All science uses it. -
1564
William Shakespeare
William was an highly skilled writer. He was consider "England's national Poet". He wrote the play "Romeo and Juliet. -
Feb 15, 1564
Galileo
He was an Italian scientists and scholar. He came up with the modern day physics and astronomy. He also was the guy who constructed the telescope. -
Issac Newton
He was most famous for his law of gravitation. He was a physicist and mathematician. He also developed the law of motion.
