Renaissance Timeline

By crirodriguez
  • Period: Nov 11, 1337 to Nov 11, 1453

    100 Years War

    Fighting started in the Hundred Years' War because the Kings of England - descendants of William the Conqueror who still spoke French -wanted to rule France as well. France was temptingly weak and divided. It began with the English King Edward III already ruling a large part of France; it ended with him ruling hardly any, but with what is now Nord - Pas de Calais split off under foreign rule for several centuries.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1400 to

    Reinassance timeline

  • Nov 5, 1401

    Ghiberti Wins right to sculpt Northern Doors

    Ghiberti Wins right to sculpt Northern Doors
    1401: Ghiberti Wins the Right to Sculpt the Northern Doors of The Baptistry Ghiberti is commissioned and takes 28 years to sculpt the bronze doors of the Florentine church. The doors remain one of the most valued treasures of the Renaissance
  • Oct 31, 1451

    Cristhoper Culumbus

    Cristhoper Culumbus
    Columbus started the Columbia Exchange, which brought the potatoes and the corn to Europe, and Africa
    Columbus was the first to discover the new world and discover an island and named in San Salvador.
    He also founded a city called Isabella.
    He started a large trend of European Exploration
    He discovered America by a mistake
  • Nov 11, 1483

    Martin Luther

    Martin Luther
    Martin Luther was a German priest and professor of theology who initiated the Protestant Reformation. Strongly disputing the claim that freedom from God's punishment of sin could be purchased with money, he confronted indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel with his The Ninety-Five Theses in 1517. His refusal to retract all of his writings at the demand of Pope Leo X in 1520 and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms in 1521 resulted in his excommunication by the pope and condemnation a
  • Jan 28, 1491

    King Henry VIII

    King Henry VIII
    Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was king of England from 21 April 1509 until his death.
    He was also lord of Ireland and claimant to the kingdom of France.
    His coronation at age of 17
    Establishing the Church of England in 1534 and the Act of Supremacy
    Produced three children who all ruled as the King or Queens of England continuing the Tudor Dynasty: King Edward VI, Bloody Mary and Queen Elizabeth I
  • Nov 11, 1494

    Francis 1 King Of France

    Francis 1 King Of France
    Francis I of France, called the Father and Restorer of Letters, was crowned King of France in 1515 in the cathedral at Reims and reigned until 1547. Francis I is considered to be France's first Renaissance monarch. His reign saw France make immense cultural advances. He was a contemporary of King Henry VIII of England and of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, his great rivals, and Suleiman the Magnificent, his ally.
  • Nov 9, 1512

    Michelangelo

    Michelangelo
    Michelangelo was a great leader in the Italian Renaissance.
    His greatest glory, painting the Sistine Chapel, began in 1508, and was completed in 1512.
    Beginning in 1491, Michelangelo carved Madonna of the Stairs. It took him one year to complete
    The paintings on the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, the Pieta in Rome, the statue of David in Florence to name just a few.
    The statue of David
  • Nov 10, 1535

    Church Of England

    Church Of England
    Henry VIII deems himself Supreme Head of the Church of England
  • Nov 10, 1539

    Bible

    Bible
    The Great Bible printed
  • Nov 10, 1564

    New Borns Shakespheare and Malowe

    New Borns Shakespheare and Malowe
    Christopher Marlowe born in Canterbury William Shakespeare born