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1231
Inquisition
If you were labled an enemy to the church this would happen. A style of torture to get you to admit to something you didn't do. -
Jun 20, 1304
Pertrarch
Francesco Petrarca was an Italian scholar and poet in Renaissance Italy. he was one of the first to what we would consider humanists -
1400
humanism
an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. Humanist beliefs stress the potential value and goodness of human beings, emphasize common human needs, and seek solely rational ways of solving human problems. -
1440
printing revolution
the time when the printing press first came out and books where available to everyone -
Jan 1, 1449
Lorenzo De'Medici
Lorenzo de' Medici was an Italian statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic, who was the most powerful and enthusiastic patron of the Renaissance -
Apr 14, 1452
Leonardo Da'Vinci
Leonardo was an Italian Renaissance polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of paleontology, ichnology, and architecture, and is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. -
Jan 28, 1457
Henry VII
Henry VII was King of England from seizing the crown on 22 August 1485 until his death on 21 April 1509, and the first monarch of the House of Tudor. He ruled the Principality of Wales until 29 November 1489 and was Lord of Ireland -
1468
Johan Gutenburge
Gutenberg was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe via printing press -
May 3, 1469
Machiavelli
Machiavelli was an Italian diplomat, politician, historian, philosopher, humanist, and writer of the Renaissance period. He has often been called the father of modern political science -
Feb 19, 1473
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance- and Reformation-era mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe. -
Mar 6, 1475
Michelangelo
Michelangelo was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence, who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. -
Feb 7, 1478
Thomas More
Sir Thomas More, venerated by Roman Catholics as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. -
Feb 18, 1483
Martin Luther
Martin Luther, O.S.A., was a German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk and a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation. Luther came to reject several teachings and practices of the Roman Catholic Church. -
Jun 2, 1489
Thomas Cranmer
Thomas Cranmer was a leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterbury during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and, for a short time -
Jul 4, 1509
John Calvin
John Calvin was an influential French theologian, pastor and reformer during the Protestant Reformation -
1517
sale of indulgences
It was the sale of a piece of paper that said you would go to heaven. The real purpose was to bring money to the church by Pope Leo X -
1543
Heliocentric Theory
This theory was first proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus. Copernicus was a Polish astronomer. He first published the heliocentric system in his book: De revolutionibus orbium coelestium , "On the revolutions of the heavenly bodies," which appeared in 1543. -
1545
Council of Trent
held between 1545 and 1563 in Trento (Trent), northern Italy, was an ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church. Prompted by the Protestant Reformation, it has been described as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation. -
Feb 15, 1564
Galileo
Galileo Galilei was an Italian polymath: astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician. -
Newton
Sir Isaac Newton PRS was an English mathematician, astronomer, and physicist who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.
