renaissances & reformation timeline

Eye Glasses (inventions part 2)

1285

The first-ever eyeglasses were invented by the Romans by filling up a glass pot full of water. But during the renaissance, the eyeglass was updated by using bone or wood a glass lens bent in a certain way and placed in a lens that would have to be held by hand up to the user's eyes. https://docs.google.com/document/d/18zhlMxdWSEkqMVtonGhr4qCXVQieeGNbSC22podzlTo/edit

blast furnace (Inventions part 3)

1300

The blast furnace was invented by Henry Bessemer. The blast furnace is like any other furnace but much bigger and it could smelt much more metal this allowed people to make many more weapons or anything else made with metal. https://docs.google.com/document/d/18zhlMxdWSEkqMVtonGhr4qCXVQieeGNbSC22podzlTo/edit

Social classes (Daily life part 1)

Period: Jan 1, 1300 to Jan 1, 1600

Nobility is the highest class only about 2-3 percent of the population is in the class and these people held important political decisions. It was also believed that a person was born a noble not made into one. The next class is the townspeople witch made up about 7-13 percent of the population these people where your skilled workers such as blacksmiths. The lowest class was the peasants' which was 85-90 percent of the population and these people worked all day for little to nothing for payment.

The Divine Comedy (Literary works part 2)

1320

This was a fictional story about Dante who travels through the farthest reaches of hell, purgatory, and paradise. This epic story is still told today in western civilization almost half a millennium later.

Donatello (art and artist part 4)

Jan 1, 1386

Donatello is a sculptor who studied many Greek statues and taking a lot of influence from them. He was the creator of the Saint George statue and an incredible free-standing piece of art. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lcZUTX30ZSAO0cceMSfbHUp5gm_xpOkYuHg8EdNT0zY/edit

The Canterbury tales (Literary Works part 3)

1392

This was a collection of stories about 29 pilgrims going to the tomb of St.Thomas in Canterbury England. These stories allowed people from all walks of life such as peasants, monks, kings, merchants to all come together.

Jan Van Eyck birth (renaissance art and artist 2)

Jan 1, 1395

Jan Van Eyck was one of the first oil painters and one of the first to perfect the oil painting technique. Because of his paintings, many more artists, later on, would begin to use oil paints instead of water paints. These oil paints allowed future works of art to have much more detail than their counterparts. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lcZUTX30ZSAO0cceMSfbHUp5gm_xpOkYuHg8EdNT0zY/edit

Filippo Brunelleschi creates linear perspective (art and artists part 5)

1400

Filippo was a well-known artist during the renaissance but he was most known for his work making linear perspective paintings. In the year 1400, his most famous painting was created, the Florentine Baptistery. On either side of the painting, there are columns that seem to get smaller and smaller as if you can walk into the painting. His experimentation with perspective paved the way for future perspective artist.https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/important-events-during-renaissance-time-period

Humanism (scientific discoveries part 1)

1400

During the renaissance, there was a main switch in thinking. the new thing was called Humanism. Humanism is the idea that life should revolve around individual achievements and there was less focus on god and religion. This switch in thinking paved the way for more art and scientific discoveries.

printing press (Martin Luther and reformation part 3)

1440

Martin Luther's writings were a big part of getting people to see the corruption in the church and his writings were the main reason that the reformation even happened. But the problem was getting the writings out to many people and individually copying each page would take a long time. But the printing press allowed people to print his works many times making many copies allowing his writings to spread all over Germany.

Lorenzo Medici birth (art patrons 2)

Jan 1, 1449

Lorenzo Medici is credited as being one of the greatest Medicis to exist. He was a poet, humanist, skilled politician, and a patron to the arts.

Trade (daily life and culture part 3)

Jan 1, 1450

Trade was an important part of the renaissance trade allowed a lot of goods to be imported and exported from Italy. This trade allowed the people of Italy and the surrounding areas to be exposed to many outside things. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lcZUTX30ZSAO0cceMSfbHUp5gm_xpOkYuHg8EdNT0zY/edit

Cosimo de' Medici's death( renaissances art patrons 1)

Aug 1, 1464

He was the first of the Medici political dynasty and he was also known as Father Medici or Elder Medici. Without Cosimo, the rest of the Medici family wouldn't have become the banking and art titans that the became during the renaissance. And after Cosimo's death, Signoria awarded him with the title of Father of the country. https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/important-events-during-renaissance-time-period

Albercht Durer (art and artist part 3)

May 21, 1471

Albrecht studied many forms of art and many artists. He also learned how to add perspective to his pieces. He also liked Leonardo very much and this liking to his work allowed Albrecht to learn about the human body and how it worked. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lcZUTX30ZSAO0cceMSfbHUp5gm_xpOkYuHg8EdNT0zY/edit

Martin Luther's birthday (Catholic church pre-reformation part 2)

Oct 10, 1483

Martin Luther was the main reason that the reformation took place with his 95 theses being nailed to the door of the church or his teachings to the people in Wittenburg he was the main reason that people saw the church taking advantage of people. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mlwIER6DpJ4dkYGXTrjttAdqAC5ZOpM2xPdd5tV0kqU/edit

high renaissance artist (art and artist 1)

Jan 1, 1490

The high renaissance artist-led to some great works of art such as the school of Athens painted on the far wall of the Vatican Palace. witch represents harmony, balance, and order. It was clear that many high renaissance artist understood greek and roman art principles.

Columbus lands on America (daily life part 2)

Oct 12, 1492

Once Columbus landed in America it opened a whole other world to the people back in Spain. The new world brought back many new items to trade and allowed many people who were seeking adventure to leave their country and go to another world. The Americas open up a whole other world and new things to everyone back across the sea. https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/important-events-during-renaissance-time-period

Catholic church's practices (church pre-reformation part 3) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mlwIER6DpJ4dkYGXTrjttAdqAC5ZOpM2xPdd5tV0kqU/edit

1500

The catholic church was very wealthy because of all the people of England, Germany, and many more places donations. The church would use this money mostly to build religious houses for monks and nuns. But sometimes the money was used to build important centers of leaning with sprawling libraries. But just before the Reformation there was much criticism towards the church about monks and priests not behaving properly and some believed that the church was more focused on money and power.

Roman Catholic churches power (pre-reformation part 1)

Period: Jan 1, 1500 to Jan 1, 1600

During this time the church was extremely rich and powerful, almost anything a person wanted to do had to be okayed by the church this includes marriages, births, and deaths. almost every person at this time would make a pilgrimage to the church and donate money to it as well.

The Magic square (scientific discoveries part 2)

1514

During the renaissance, there was a surge of science and mathematics and in this year 1514, one major mathematic discovery was the super-magic-square a basic 4 by 4 square. This square was invented by Albrecht Dürer and allowed mathematicians to explore new levels of geometry and mathematics. The super-magic-square would allow people to make complex shapes and use different dimensions with different shapes. https://www.dailyartmagazine.com/mystery-durer-magic-square/

95 theses (Martin Luther and reformation part 1)

1517

Up to this point, Martin Luther was fed up with the church's practices such as indulgences. He believed that people could not buy their way into heaven. So he wrote all of his arguments towards the church and nailed them to the church's door in Wittenburg. This act inspired a lot of people to rise up against the church. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mlwIER6DpJ4dkYGXTrjttAdqAC5ZOpM2xPdd5tV0kqU/edit

German bible (literary works part 1)

1522

during the reformation, Martin Luther Transcribed the bible into the German language. This allowed the German people to read the bible and think what they want about it this means that the people didn't have to take the church's word for it. The German bible was the main factor of the formation of the Lutheran church. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mlwIER6DpJ4dkYGXTrjttAdqAC5ZOpM2xPdd5tV0kqU/edit

Translating the bible (Martin Luther and the reformation part 2)

1522

for a long time, people could not read the bible they just took the churches word on the translations. And oftentimes the church would make things up and say they were from the bible. Martin Luther changed that when he translated the bible in to german so that all the people could read and interpret the bible in their own way. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1mlwIER6DpJ4dkYGXTrjttAdqAC5ZOpM2xPdd5tV0kqU/edit

astronomy (scientific discoveries part 3)

1609

Many of the most major discoveries during the renaissance were made by astronomers. Many planets were discovered and many more stars and moons were also discovered. Also, different concepts were said such as not everything in space moves in a circular pattern such as comments moving in a straight line. But one of the most well-known astronomers was Galileo Gallele. He made some of the most influential discoveries and concepts.

Adding machines (Inventions part 1)

1642

Blaise pascal was given credit for inventing the adding machine. The adding machine was originally invented to help Pascal's father with taxes but soon gained popularity because of the machines to do basic math very quickly. https://docs.google.com/document/d/18zhlMxdWSEkqMVtonGhr4qCXVQieeGNbSC22podzlTo/edit

citations

2020

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