reniassance timeline By klpowell14 Jan 1, 1449 Birth of Lorenzo de' Medici Sep 30, 1452 Gutenberg prints the first Bible Sep 27, 1480 Spanish Inquisition is introduced Oct 12, 1492 Columbus discovers new World May 20, 1498 Vasco de Gama sails to India Jan 2, 1503 Leonardo de Vinci paints the Mona Lisa Sep 8, 1509 Michel angelo sculpts David May 6, 1516 Thomas More writes Utopia May 6, 1516 Rapheal paints the Transfiguration Oct 31, 1517 Martin Luther pasts 95 Theses on the door of the castle church May 6, 1534 King Henry begins Protestant Anglica church May 6, 1534 John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christian religion Aug 15, 1534 Fouding of the society of Jeus By Ignatius of Loyola May 6, 1536 Niccolo published Institutes of the Christian Religion May 29, 1543 Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spreres Nov 17, 1558 Elizabeth the first begins rule in England Apr 23, 1569 William Shakespeare born May 6, 1584 Sir Walter Raleigh tries to establish Roanoke (present day North Caroline)- Aug 8, 1588 King phillip the second of Spain assembles Spanish Armada May 6, 1593 Galileo invents a thermometer