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1428
Joan of Arc and the Siege of Orleans.
Between October 1428 and May 1429, during the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453), the city of Orleans, France, was besieged by English forces. On May 8, 1429, Joan of Arc (1412-31), a teenage French peasant, successfully led a French force to break the siege. In 1920, she was canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.
[https://www.history.com/topics/middle-ages/siege-of-orleans#:~:text=Between%20October%201428%20and%20May,by%20the%20Roman%20Catholic%20Church.] -
1439
Printing Press
Johannes Gutenberg was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher who introduced modern book printing. His invention of mechanical movable type printing started the Printing Revolution and is widely regarded as the most important event of the modern period.
[https://www.timelineindex.com/content/view/997#:~:text=Johannes%20Gutenberg%20was%20a%20German,event%20of%20the%20modern%20period.] -
1455
Printed Bible
The Gutenberg bible was printed in Mainz. This bible was one of the major books printed using mass-produced movable metal type in Europe. It marked the start of the "Gutenberg Revolution" and the age of printed books in the West.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutenberg_Bible] -
1492
Christopher Columbus
in 1492 Christopher Columbus reaches the Americas. Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and Navigator who completed the four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus] -
1503
The "Mona Lisa"
This painting was made by Leonardo Da Vinci. And 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". -
1506
St. Peter's Church.
Designed principally by Donato Bramante, Michelangelo, Carlo Maderno and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, St. Peter's is the most renowned work of Renaissance architecture and the largest church in the world.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter%27s_Basilica#:~:text=Designed%20principally%20by%20Donato%20Bramante,largest%20church%20in%20the%20world.] -
1508
Sistine Chapel
The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 1512, is a cornerstone work of High Renaissance art. The ceiling is that of the Sistine Chapel, the large papal chapel built within the Vatican between 1477 and 1480 by Pope Sixtus IV, for whom the chapel is named.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistine_Chapel_ceiling]
