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Renaissance Timeline

By Lilli Drost
  • 1347

    Bubonic Plague begins

    Bubonic Plague begins
    The Bubonic Plague devastated Europe's population during the dark ages.
  • 1350

    The Renaissance Begins

    The Renaissance Begins
    The Renaissance was an intellectual and artistic movement. Humanism was created and religion was beginning to lose its foot hold on society.
  • 1429

    Joan of Arc and the Siege of Orleans

    Joan of Arc and the Siege of Orleans
    Joan of Arcs first military victory was the turning point in the 100 years was between England and France
  • 1439

    Johann Gutenberg invents the printing press

    Johann Gutenberg invents the printing press
    Revolutionized the manufacturing of books and also the studies of art and religion.
  • 1464

    Cosimo de Medici dies

    Cosimo de Medici dies
    Cosimo was considered the father of the nation by some.
  • 1478

    The Spanish Inquisition

    The Spanish Inquisition
    One of the most deadly inquistions is history, it ws designed to root out all noncathollics
  • 1486

    Sandro Botticelli paints birth of Venus

    Sandro Botticelli paints birth of Venus
    Painted as a result of the platonic academy, one of the famous pieces of art during the Renaissance.
  • 1492

    Columbus discovers the America's

    Columbus discovers the America's
    The discovery of the americas would lead to colonization of them a hundred years later.
  • 1493

    DaVinci paints the Last Supper

    DaVinci paints the Last Supper
    The Last Supper depicts the next few seconds in this story as Christ tells his deciples that one of them betrayed him.
  • 1510

    Raphael paints The School of Athens

    Raphael paints The School of Athens
    Many consider this to be Raphaels masterpiece becase is captures the calssical spirit of the Renaissance
  • 1512

    MIchelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel

    MIchelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel
    Requested by the Pope, Michelangelo painted nine scenes from the Old Testament onto the ceiling and walls of the Sistine Chapel.
  • 1519

    Magellan set sail and his crew circumnavigated the world

    Magellan set sail and his crew circumnavigated the world
    Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Seville for what will be the first successful circumnavigation of Earth.
  • 1524

    Start of the European wars of Religion

    Start of the European wars of Religion
    The religious wars were cause by the Pretestant Refrormation in western and norhtern Europe. Fought betweeen CHristians and Protestants.
  • 1543

    Scientific Revolution Starts

    Scientific Revolution Starts
    The scientific revolution was an era in which new ideas like physics, chemistry, medicine, and biology formed and paved the way for modern science.

  • Edict of Nantes

    Edict of Nantes
    Issued by King Henry the IV of France, it gave non-Catholics in France civil rights.