The Renaissance

By EliRusso
  • Jan 1, 1449

    Birth of Lorenzo de' Medici

    Birth of Lorenzo de' Medici
    Lorenzo de' Medici was the most powerful and enthusiastic patron of renaissance culture.
  • 1455

    Gutenberg prints the first Bible

    Gutenberg prints the first Bible
    In 1455, Gutenberg produced what is considered to be the first book ever printed.
  • 1504

    Michelangelo sculpts the David

    Michelangelo sculpts the David
    David is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created in marble between 1501 and 1504 by the Italian artist Michelangelo.
  • 1517

    Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church

    Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church
    These 95 These were 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation.
  • 1517

    Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa

    Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
    The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci that has been described as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world".
  • 1543

    Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres

    Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres
    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.
  • 1551

    Thomas More writes Utopia

    Thomas More writes Utopia
    Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More (1478–1535) published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.[1]
  • 1564

    William Shakespeare is born

    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 greatest dramatist.

  • Galileo invents a thermometer

    Galileo invents a thermometer
    Although named after the 16th–17th-century physicist Galileo, the thermometer described in this article was not invented by him. Galileo did invent a thermometer, called Galileo's air thermometer (more accurately termed a thermoscope), in or before 1603.

  • King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican church

    King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican church
    Anglicanism is one of the major branches of the 16th-century Protestant Reformation and a form of Christianity that includes features of both Protestantism and Roman Catholicism.