Renaissance Timeline | Timetoast Timelines

Period: May 3, 1400 to May 3, 1650

Renaissance
May 3, 1440

Josquin Des Prez, greatest composer of the 1500s, is born

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www.thefamouspeople.com
May 3, 1440

The "Golden Age" of polyphony is born

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www.beyondthenotes.org
May 3, 1453

Turks conquer Constantinople

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en.wikipedia.org
May 3, 1453

Gutenberg's moveable type printing press

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etc.usf.edu
May 3, 1473

Ottaviano Petrucci becomes the first to publish music using the press

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www.amazon.com
May 3, 1492

Colombus sails to American

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www.iflscience.com
May 3, 1497

Johannes Ockeghem, first great Renaissance composer, dies

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www.youtube.com
May 3, 1517

Luther nails 95 Theses to the door of the Church

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blogs.thegospelcoalition.org
May 3, 1521

Magellan sails around the globe

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www.biography.com
May 3, 1525

"The Savior of the Catholic Church Music" Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina is born

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www.telegraph.co.uk
May 3, 1526

Luther composes Duedsche Messe

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commons.wikimedia.org
May 3, 1558

Thomas Morley, one of the famous English madgrigalists, is born

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www.newworldencyclopedia.org
May 3, 1588

Italian madrigals translated into English

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www.slideshare.net
May 3, 1590

Elizabeth I- all educated people expected to read music

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englishhistory.net
May 3, 1600

English Madrigal is born

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www.lib.cam.ac.uk