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1449
Birth of Lorenzo de' Medici
he was born on January 1st, in Florence Italy -
1455
Gutenberg prints the first Bible
An inventor named Gutenberg produced what is considered to be the first book ever printed which was the Bible -
1492
Columbus discovers the new world
Columbus led his three ships out of the Spanish port of Palos and he thought he founded new land -
1501
Michelangelo sculpts David
It is a 14 ft marble statue depicting the Biblical hero David, represented as a standing male nude. -
1503
Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
the woman in the Mona Lisa is actually a model named Lisa Gherardini -
1513
Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince
The Prince is a 16th-century political thesis -
1517
Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church
Martin Luther nails a piece of paper to it containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation. -
1534
Founding of the Society of Jesus by Ignatius of Loyola
It was a Jesuit movement that Ignatius founded. He took six of his students to take vows of poverty and chastity and made plans to work for the conversion of Muslims. -
1536
John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion
The Institutes of the Christian Religion was a seminal work of Protestant systematic theology. -
1543
Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres
the original title is De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. It is the seminal work on the heliocentric theory of Copernicus -
1564
William Shakespeare is born
He was born in April 1564 (no one actually knows the day he was born on), his birthplace was Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom -
Galileo invents a thermometer
He called it Galileo's air thermometer. He found out that the density of liquids reacts predictably to changes in temperature.
