world history time line

  • 1308

    dante

    dante
    he wanted to inform people about how to follow god. he called it the comdy. people loved it so much they changed it to the divine comdy

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  • 1330

    petrarch

    petrarch
    he wrote a collections of poms called canoniere it included 317 sonnets. he wrote from 1330 tell he died in 1374
    britannica.com
  • 1400

    daily life

    daily life
    nobles were the second highest for wealth and they worked on boats and produced wool
    renaissanceitanly.com
  • 1400

    merchants

    merchants
    merchants worked in banks and they would get a lot of money by marring a rich noble. sometimes merchants worked on ships with nobles
    renaisssanceitaly.com
  • 1400

    peasants/unskilled workers

    peasants/unskilled workers
    peasants were unskilled and if they did something wrong on the job there salary would be cut or they would be fired. peasants had a one room house and it was very poor quality

    renaissanceitaly.com
  • 1417

    lorenzo ghiberti

    lorenzo ghiberti
    he created the bronze doors of the babtistry of florece
    biography.com
  • 1420

    oil paintings

    oil paintings
    van eyck made oil paining popular
    oil painting had been used in the 12th centry but not wildly
    britannica.com
  • 1427

    masaccio

    masaccio
    he was an italian painter who impacted florentine painting
    britannica.com
  • Period: 1428 to 1432

    medici family

    they where a very welty family that donated a lot of money to the arts. one thing there money led to was Donatello's David
  • 1445

    printing press

    printing press
    the printing press was made by johannes gutenburg. before the printing press books had to be written by hand
    history.com
  • 1498

    borgia family

    borgia family
    a very wealthy family contributed a lot of money to leonadao da vinci who created the last supper
    artsy.net
  • 1499

    michelangelo buonarroti

    michelangelo buonarroti
    he was the most important and best sculpter and he was a painter as well. he worked on the sistine chapel and saint peters
  • 1503

    leonardo da vinci

    leonardo da vinci
    the Mona Lisa was painted by Leonardo da Vinci.
    the mona lisa painting is known as the most visited, most written about, most sung about
  • 1504

    statue of david

    statue of david
    David was made by Michelangelo. the statue is 14 ft tall.
    Michelangelo was 26 when he started working on David.
    accademia.org
  • 1505

    martin luther

    martin luther
    he was on his way back to the collage and he got caught in a thunder storm and he promised that he would join religious order if he was saved
    nationalgeographic.com
  • 1511

    raphael sanzio

    raphael sanzio
    he was the youngest of the three best painters. he painted the school of athens
    history.com
  • 1518

    frederick the wise

    frederick the wise
    he protected luther and helped him in the reform movement
    he founded the university that luther attended
    nationalgeographic.com
  • 1525

    mechanical clocks

    mechanical clocks
    invented by jacob zich of prague. later improved by galileo
    hstoryofwatch.com
  • 1535

    guillaume farel

    guillaume farel
    leader in the french reformation movement he recruited believers and had them translate the holy scriptures in french.
    reformationsa.org
  • 1546

    95 theses

    95 theses
    Luther wrote the 95 theses to protest all the things that were wrong with the church. one thing he protested was the sale of indulgences
  • flushing toilet

    flushing toilet
    invented sir john harington. it was known as the water closet. people didn't use it right away they thought it was an expensive luxury
    sciencefocus.com
  • galileo

    galileo
    he produced telescopes that he could star gaze with and it allowed him to show people to see the moon's surface was uneven
    britannica.com
  • francis bacon

    francis bacon
    he began collage at 12. and he led to the develpment in the scientific method.
    briannica.com
  • isaac newton

    isaac newton
    he did the three laws of motion and figured out gravity because a apple fell and hit him on the head.

    britannica.com
  • parachute

    parachute
    andre-jacques garnerin was the first one to make a parachute that slowed a persons fall from a high place. he jumped from 3200 feet above paris. he died in 1823 testing a new parachute
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