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Jan 1, 1449
Birth of Lorenzo de' Medici
Patron of Arts -
Oct 22, 1454
Gutenberg prints the first Bible
It was the first bible printed and available out. -
1478
Thomas More writes Utopia
Sir Thomas More, venerated by Roman Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. -
1503
Leonardo De Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci -
1504
Michelangelo sculpts the David
David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created between 1501 and 1504 by Michelangelo. It is a 5.17-metre marble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the Biblical hero David, a favoured subject in the art of Florence. -
Oct 31, 1517
Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church
It began the reformation -
1534
King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican church
He protested a church -
1543
Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres), written by Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus and published just before his death, placed the sun at the center of the universe and argued that the Earth moved across the heavens as one of the planets. -
Apr 23, 1564
William Shakespeare is born
William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". -
Galileo invents a thermometer
it tells the weather or temperature
