Eras By bikinieggplant Period: 476 to 1425 Middle Ages Period: 1100 to 1500 Gothic period Period: 1346 to 1353 The Black Death A bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe 1400 Canterbury Tales 1450 Printing press invented Period: 1450 to 1650 Renaissance period 1492 Columbus discovers America 1500 The Garden of Earthly Delights 1503 Mona Lisa 1504 David of Michelangelo Period: 1558 to 1603 Elizabethan era Period: 1564 to 1616 William Shakespear Period: 1600 to 1750 Baroque period Period: 1685 to 1815 Age of Enlightenment Period: 1748 to 1828 Goya 1776 American Declaration of Independence Period: 1780 to 1830 Romanticism 1789 French Revolution Period: 1820 to 1914 Victorian Era 1838 First Photograph