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Period: May 6, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Jan 1, 1449
Birth of Lorenzo De' Medici
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May 6, 1480
Spanish Inquisition is introduced
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May 6, 1500
Sir Walter Raleigh tries to establish Roanoke
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May 6, 1501
Michaelangelo sculpts the David
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May 6, 1502
Vasco da Gama sails to India
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May 6, 1503
Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
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May 6, 1516
Rapheal paints the Tranfiguration
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May 9, 1516
Thomas More writes Utopia
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May 6, 1517
Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of the castle church
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May 9, 1532
Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince
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May 6, 1535
Gutenberg prints the first bible
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May 9, 1536
John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion
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May 6, 1542
Columbus discovers the new world
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May 6, 1543
Nicolas Copernicus publishes ON the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres
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May 9, 1558
Elizabeth I begins rule in England
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Apr 23, 1564
William Shakespeare is born
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King Phillip II of Spain assembles the Spanish Armada
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Galileo invented the thermometer