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Birth of Lorenzo de' Medici

  • Gutenberg prints the first Bible
    1455

    Gutenberg prints the first Bible

    Gutenberg produced what is considered to be the first book ever printed (a Latin language Bible)
  • Nicolaus Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres
    1473

    Nicolaus Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres

    placed the sun at the center of the universe and argued that the Earth moved across the heavens as one of the planets.
  • Columbus discovers the new world
    1492

    Columbus discovers the new world

    After sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sights a Bahamian island, believing he has reached East Asia
  • Michelangelo sculpts the David
    1501

    Michelangelo sculpts the David

    It is a 14.0 ft marble statue depicting the Biblical hero David
  • Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
    1503

    Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa

    The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci
  • Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince
    1513

    Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince

    The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli.
  • Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church
    1517

    Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church

    the priest and scholar Martin Luther approaches the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, and nails a piece of paper to it containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation.
  • founding of the the society of Jesus by Ignatius of Loyola
    1534

    founding of the the society of Jesus by Ignatius of Loyola

  • John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion
    1536

    John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion

  • William Shakespeare was born
    1564

    William Shakespeare was born

  • Galileo invents the thermometer

    Galileo invents the thermometer