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Jan 1, 1215
The Magna Carta
The Magna Carta was a very important document, signed by John of England in 1215 A.D. This document actually bound the king to law, and protected the prevliges of the people. Their intentions were to only have nobles' rights. But eventually this was overulled and rights were given to commoners. -
Jun 1, 1265
Dante
Dante was a poet in the Renaissance. He wrote many plays but his most famous one is the Divine Comedy. He was born on June 1, 1265, in Florence, Italy. He was a poet, and also wrote many plays, but the one everyone thought was his best was the Divine Comedy, or La Divina Commedia. -
Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
The Renaisance
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Apr 12, 1450
Johannes Gutenburg invents the printing press
The printing press helps us today because it allows us to print many different things. Johannes Gutenburg's invention is and had helped us in ways such as giving people a reason to learn to read and write, and also to mass produce books in a quick and efficiant manner -
Jan 1, 1452
Leonardo Da Vinci is born
A great artist and the best scientific mind of his time, Leonardo was born on this day. He was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man. -
Apr 13, 1471
Albrecht Durer
Albrecht is important for his new way of painting with perspective and light allows for a whole new way of painting a picture. He was a German painter, printmaker, engraver, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg. His prints established his reputation across Europe when he was still in his twenties, and he has been conventionally regarded as the greatest artist of the Northern Renaissance ever since. -
Jan 1, 1475
Michelangelo is born
Michelanglo is born. He is the greatest artist known to man, because he painted the sitene chapel ceiling. was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with Leonardo da Vinci. -
Apr 13, 1488
Titian
Titian was at first a painter, then became a knight. This was a first for someone to switch jobs from something so different from each other. He was an Italian painter, the most important member of the 16th-century Venetian school. He was born in Pieve di Cadore, near Belluno (in Veneto), in the Republic of Venice. During his lifetime he was often called da Cadore, taken from the place of his birth.w -
Jan 15, 1543
The Copernican Revolution
This was a revolutionary discorvery: that the sun has a center gravity pull, which makes the planets revolve around it. The Copernican Revolution refers to the paradigm shift away from the Ptolemaic model of the heavens, which postulated the Earth at the center of the galaxy, towards the heliocentric model with the Sun at the center of our Solar System. It was one of the starting points of the Scientific Revolution of the 16th century. -
Jan 1, 1564
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was the best playwriter in all of history. he understood humanity, and made the play Romeo and Juliet. He was an English poet and playwright, 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." His surviving works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, -
End of the Renaisance
