Renaissance timeline

  • Dante writes the Divine Comedy
    1320

    Dante writes the Divine Comedy

    A religious document written in the middle ages before the secular idea came to be
  • Period: 1330 to 1550

    Beginning of the italian renaissance

    This is an age of secular ideology and moving away from religion. This marks the end of the middle ages. Time of excel in architecture, inventing, and art.
  • Period: 1387 to 1400

    Chaucer writes canterbury tales

    introduces the idea of a pilgrimage (holy trip) to its readers
  • last visconti ruler milan
    1412

    last visconti ruler milan

    ruled milan for about 30 years
  • Donatello makes st george statue
    1415

    Donatello makes st george statue

    Donatello was commissioned to create a statue of St. George around 1413 for the guild of Florentine armorers and sword-makers
  • The Medici family takes control of Florence
    1434

    The Medici family takes control of Florence

    Medici family uses money to support the growing of artists in Florence. Soon came to be the most powerful family in Florence.
  • chritain humanism spreads through northern europe
    1450

    chritain humanism spreads through northern europe

    in the north, humanism entered service of religious progress
  • Jan van Eyck paints the Arnolfini portrait
    1454

    Jan van Eyck paints the Arnolfini portrait

    secular painting
  • gutenbourg prints bible using movable type
    1455

    gutenbourg prints bible using movable type

    Johann Gutenberg holds the distinction of being the inventor of the movable-type printing press. In 1455, Gutenberg produced what is considered to be the first book ever printed: a Latin language Bible, printed in Mainz, Germany.
  • Charles VIII of France invades Naples
    1494

    Charles VIII of France invades Naples

    starts first Italian war where the French invade Italy.
  • Da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
    1505

    Da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa

    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
  • michelangelo begins painting the sistine chapel
    1508

    michelangelo begins painting the 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.
  • Erasmus writes satire The Praise of Folly
    1509

    Erasmus writes satire The Praise of Folly

    a satirical criticism of many of the superstitions and other traditions held by European society at the time, and in particular the Roman Catholic Church.
  • machiavelli writes the prince
    1513

    machiavelli writes the prince

    The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli
  • Martin Luther presents the Nintet-five Thesis
    1517

    Martin Luther presents the Nintet-five Thesis

    Document stating that what the medici were doing selling the papers for profit was wrong. started rebellion against church
  • Charles I is elected Holy Roman Emperor
    1519

    Charles I is elected Holy Roman Emperor

    Charles elected Holy Roman emperor. Charles I of Spain, who by birth already held sway over much of Europe and Spanish America, is elected the successor of his late grandfather, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian
  • The church exocommunicates Luther
    1521

    The church exocommunicates Luther

    Pope Leo X excommunicated Luther. Three months later, Luther was called to defend his beliefs before Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms, where he was famously defiant. For his refusal to recant his writings, the emperor declared him an outlaw and a heretic.
  • invading armies sack rome
    1527

    invading armies sack rome

    The Sack of Rome on 6 May 1527 was a military event carried out in Rome (then part of the Papal States) by the mutinous troops of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor.
  • castilione writes the book of the courtier
    1528

    castilione writes the book of the courtier

    Il Libro del Cortegiano or The Book of The Courtier was written by Count Baldassare Castiglione (1478–1529), and was first published in vernacular Italian in 1528. The book provides a fascinating insight into Renaissance court life, and was the ultimate 'how to' guide for aspiring courtiers.
  • war between the protestant and catholic states in switzerland
    1531

    war between the protestant and catholic states in switzerland

    The Second War of Kappel (Zweiter Kappelerkrieg) was an armed conflict in 1531 between the Protestant and the Roman Catholic cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy during the Reformation in Switzerland.
  • Henry the VIII creates the church of england
    1534

    Henry the VIII creates the church of england

    The Supreme Head of the Church of England was a title created in 1531 for King Henry VIII of England, who was responsible for the foundation of the English Protestant church that broke away from the authority of the Roman Catholic Church after Pope Paul III excommunicated Henry in 1533 over his divorce from Catherine
  • the act of supremacy is passed in england
    1534

    the act of supremacy is passed in england

    The name "Act of Supremacy" is given to two separate acts of the English Parliament, one passed in 1534 and the other in 1559. Both acts had the same purpose; to firmly establish the English monarch as the official head of the Church of England, supplanting the power of the Catholic pope in Rome.
  • The society of jesus becomes the religious order
    1540

    The society of jesus becomes the religious order

    The Jesuit order played an important role in the Counter-Reformation and eventually succeeded in converting millions around the world to Catholicism. The Jesuit movement was founded by Ignatius de Loyola, a Spanish soldier turned priest, in August 1534.
  • The council of trent is formed
    1545

    The council of trent is formed

    The Council of Trent can be seen as the most important factor to the reform of the Catholic Church because many of its most important aims to reform the church were achieved. Although the Council of Trent was important it was unable to agree a compromise with Protestant churches.
  • Mary Tudor "bloody Mary" becomes queen of england
    1553

    Mary Tudor "bloody Mary" becomes queen of england

    The executions that marked her pursuit of the restoration of Roman Catholicism in England and Ireland led to her denunciation as "Bloody Mary" by her Protestant opponents. Mary had almost 300 disagreeing religious people burned at the stake, which are recorded in John Foxe's Book of Martyrs. Due to this, many called her "Bloody Mary". When her half-sister, Elizabeth I, came to the throne after Mary's death, she made England Protestant again.
  • The Peace of Augsburg divides Germany
    1555

    The Peace of Augsburg divides Germany

    Peace of Augsburg, 1555, temporary settlement within the Holy Roman Empire of the religious conflict arising from the Reformation. Each prince was to determine whether Lutheranism or Roman Catholicism was to prevail in his lands (cuius regio, eius religio).