The Renaissance

Filippo Brunelleschi discovers the linear perspectives

Mar 5, 1420

He suggested a system that explained how objects shrink in size according to their position and distance from the eye.

Leon Battista Alberti provided the first theory of linear perspective in his book, On Painting.

Mar 5, 1435

The Brirth of Leonardo da Vinci

Apr 15, 1452

An Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal.

Ottoman conquest of Constantinople

Mar 5, 1453

The fall of Constantinople, the end of the Middle Age

The Gutenberg Bible published;

Mar 5, 1454

Print revolutionises European literacy.

Lorenzo de Medici takes power

Mar 5, 1469

His rule is considered the high point of the Florentine Renaissance.

The birth of Michelangelo

Mar 6, 1475

He was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art

Vespucci explores the east coast of South America

Mar 5, 1499

He demonstrating that the New World was not Asia but a previously unknown fourth continent

Henry VIII succeeds to power in England

Mar 5, 1509

Nicolaus Copernicus publishes De revolutionibus orbium coelestium

Mar 5, 1543

A seminal work on the heliocentric theory, offered an alternative model of the universe to Ptolemy's geocentric system, which had been widely accepted since ancient times.

Elizabeth I succeeds to the throne in England

Mar 5, 1558

The start of the English “Golden Age”.

The birth of Shakespeare

Apr 26, 1564

An English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist

The Introduction of the Mercator world map

Mar 5, 1569

Flemish geographer and cartographer Gerardus Mercator world map of 1569 introduced a cylindrical map projection that became the standard map projection known as the Mercator projection.

Galileo invented the telescope

Mar 5, 1609

With this telescope, he was able to look at the moon, discover the four satellites of Jupiter, observe a supernova, verify the phases of Venus, and discover sunspots. His discoveries proved the Copernican system which states that the earth and other planets revolve around the sun.