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Aug 13, 1308
Dante
He wrote the 9 circles of hell. His poem got many people believing in how hell looked like and many people paid the priests. He had many people convinced that hell looked like that and many of the people became catholic. -
Jan 1, 1412
Joan of Arc
She got a message from god telling her the plans of the English army and she went to tell the French prince about it. He put her in charge of his army and she led them to victory.
The Burundians took caught and took her to England and had an inquisition. She was accused of heracy and betrayal for the Burundians so she was burned at the stake. Without her France would be owned by England.She is an inspiration to women because she is a women who made a change during Renaissance. -
Apr 15, 1452
Leonardo Da Vinci
Artist, Scientist, Engineer, Inventor. He sketched a tank, muscles of the human body, a parachute, he painted the Mona Lisa. The British army used his Ideas and built a tank to use in war. After this, many other countries built tanks and used them to win battles or war. The Mona Lisa is a very famous painting because of her different smile. No Body knows who the woman was that Da Vinci painted for the Mona Lisa. -
May 3, 1469
Nicolo Machiavelli
He wrote the books "Art of War" and "The Prince". He had known many leaders and he wrote these books about how to be a good leader because he was around them everyday. Some examples are you have to be brutal to your , you have to be strong, brave and many more. Many leaders for example Hitler have used this advice in the book. Hitler was a good leader because of this book, but for the wrong reasons. -
Feb 7, 1478
Thomas Moore
He was ordered by king Henry the VIII to file a divorce for him and his wife. It was against the rules of the church and they wanted to kill the king but the church cant kill the king so they went after Thomas Moore. Thomas Moore was going to get killed by the king if he didn't do the divorce do he did the divorce for the king. Without him having the divorce for the king, Elizabeth the 1st wouldn't have been born also Edward. -
Nov 10, 1483
Martin Luther
He stuck the 95 theses on the church wall because he disagreed to the church's rules and the way they run the church. He translated the bible into German language (Normal Language at the time) so that he could see if the bible said anything about the rules that the church has. He disagreed mostly with the idea that you have to pay the priest to take your sins away. Read the 95 Theses Here -
Jun 28, 1491
Henry Vlll
He Created a religion called Anglican, in this religion you can have more than one wife. He had 6 wives the first one had a daughter and he wanted to divorce her but in the catholic religion you can't have more than one wife. The church of England uses Anglican and many other people are Anglican as well. So he made the Anglican religion, divorced that wife and married another. He had 6 wives he divorced the 1st one, beheaded the 2nd, the 3rd died of sickness, the 4th divorced the 5th beheaded an -
Jan 13, 1493
Christopher Colombus
He was looking for India but he found America.
He put the Spain flag on the land claiming it was now a part of Spain. They found natives and captured them to bring to Spain. They spread Catholicism to South America and if they weren't catholic they would kill them. -
Sep 7, 1533
Elizabeth 1st
She was the first and last female monarch from the House of Tudor to rule as a protestant queen. The Anglican church was made a formal Church. With Elizabeth as queen England became successful after being ruled badly by her sister Mary. Without her, England would have been defeated by the Spanish invasion. -
Feb 15, 1564
Galileo Galilei
He was called the "Father of Modern Physics". He looked in his telescope and realised that the sun does not revolve around the earth it was the other way round. He first got his Idea from Nicholas Copernicus, he found out that the earth revolved around the sun, but no one believed him and he was burned at the stake. Galileo looked for proof of Copernicus statement and he proved to the inquisition that he was right. -
Apr 26, 1564
William Shakespeare
He made plays. The plays are tragic and got very famous. Some of his plays are about true stories that happened during the renaissance.The plays help tell us about the history and things that happened. For example Romeo and Juliet was about two lovers that had families that were fighting for land. In the renaissance many people were fighting.
