history

  • Renaissance begins
    Jan 1, 1300

    Renaissance begins

    was a cultural movement that spanned the period roughly.
  • Bubonic Plague begins
    Jan 1, 1347

    Bubonic Plague begins

    was a disease transmitted by fleas that lived on black rats that cam over from China on merchant ships. It took out about one-third of Europe's population.
  • Brunelleschi creates Leanear Perspective
    Jan 1, 1420

    Brunelleschi creates Leanear Perspective

    Linear perspective is a way of creating a convincing, perfect illusion of space on a flat or two-dimentional surface.
  • Joan of Arc and the Siege of Orleans
    Oct 12, 1428

    Joan of Arc and the Siege of Orleans

    she was sent to Siege of Orleans as part of a relief mission.
  • Johann Gutenberg invents the printing press
    Jan 1, 1440

    Johann Gutenberg invents the printing press

    Was a German man, who introduced pintring to Europe. He invented mechanical movable type printing and started the printing revolution.
  • Cosimo de Medici dies
    Aug 1, 1462

    Cosimo de Medici dies

    First of the Medici political dynasty.
  • Spanish Inquisition begins
    Jan 1, 1478

    Spanish Inquisition begins

    thought to be purifying the poeple of Spain, by driving out the Jews, Protestants and other non-believers.
  • Sandro Botticelli paints Birth of Venus
    Jan 1, 1486

    Sandro Botticelli paints Birth of Venus

    Commissioned to paint it for Medici family of Florence.
  • Columbus discovers the America's
    Jan 1, 1492

    Columbus discovers the America's

    Christopher Columbus was a navigator looking for China and Japan when he landed on the America's
  • Da Vinci paints The Last Supper
    Jan 1, 1495

    Da Vinci paints The Last Supper

    Commissioned as part of a scheme of renovations to the church.
  • Michelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel
    Jan 1, 1508

    Michelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel

    Cornerstone work of Hish Renaissance art.
  • Raphael paints The School of Athens
    Jan 1, 1509

    Raphael paints The School of Athens

    One of the most famous Frescoes by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael.
  • Thomas More :Utopia
    Jan 1, 1516

    Thomas More :Utopia

    His best known and most controversial work.
  • Martin Luther 95 theses
    Jan 1, 1517

    Martin Luther 95 theses

    Was widely regarded as the initial catalyst for the Protestant Reformation,
  • Jan 1, 1524

    Start of the European Wars of Religion

    Series of wars waged in Europe following the onset of the Protestant Reformation in Western and Northern Europe.
  • Ivan the terrible is born
    Aug 25, 1530

    Ivan the terrible is born

    Grand Prince of Moscow.
  • Machiavelli writes the Prince
    Jan 1, 1532

    Machiavelli writes the Prince

    It is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, hitorian and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli.
  • Jesuit Order founded by Ignatius Loyola
    Jan 1, 1534

    Jesuit Order founded by Ignatius Loyola

    Society of Jesus: A Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola to defend catholicism against the Reformation and to do missionary work among heathen
  • Desiderius Eramus dies
    Jul 12, 1536

    Desiderius Eramus dies

    Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, and theologian
  • Henry VIII of England excommunicated
    Dec 17, 1538

    Henry VIII of England excommunicated

    Pope Paul III announced King Henry VIII had been excommunicated from the Catholic Church.
  • Scientific Revolution / Copernicus
    Jan 1, 1543

    Scientific Revolution / Copernicus

    Nicolaus Copernicus published his treatise On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres.
  • Spain declares bankruptcy for the 1st time
    Jan 1, 1557

    Spain declares bankruptcy for the 1st time

    Philip II of Spain declaired bankruptcy four times the first being in 1557.
  • Coronation of Queen Elizabeth I
    Jan 15, 1559

    Coronation of Queen Elizabeth I

    She was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty.
  • Saint Bartholomew's Massacre
    Aug 23, 1572

    Saint Bartholomew's Massacre

    Was a targeted group of assassinations, followed by a wave of Roman Catholic mob violence.
  • Edict of Nantes

    Edict of Nantes

    Aimed to end the long, disruptive French wars of religion, issued by King Henry IV of France.