Renaissance Timeline

  • Nov 9, 1541

    1541

    1541
    Michelangelo completes the fresco The Last Judgement in the Sixtine Chapel
  • Period: Nov 9, 1541 to Nov 9, 1561

    Renaissance

  • Nov 9, 1542

    1542

    1542
    The Inquisition established at Rome
  • Nov 9, 1543

    1543

    1543
    Publication of Nicolaus Copernicus's Revolutions of the Celestial Orbits
    Publication of Andreas Vesalius's On the Human Body
  • Nov 9, 1546

    1546

    1546
    Death of Martin Luther
  • Nov 9, 1547

    1547

    1547
    Death of Henry VIII
  • Nov 9, 1553

    1553

    1553
    Mary Tudor becomes Queen of England
  • Nov 9, 1555

    1555

    1555
    Charles V abdicates as Holy Roman Emperor
  • Nov 9, 1558

    1558

    1558
    Elizabeth becomes Queen of England
  • Nov 9, 1561

    1561

    1561
    Death of the miniaturist Simon Bening, of Bruges