history time line

  • Jan 1, 1266

    Early Renaisance painter Giotto is born & dies

  • Jan 1, 1397

    Geoffrey Chaucer writes Canterbury Tales

  • Jan 1, 1410

    Donatello creates his statue of st George

  • Jan 11, 1490

    The High Renaissance period begins and ends

  • Jan 1, 1503

    Leonardo da Vinci paints Mona Lisa

  • Feb 12, 1511

    the praise of folly is written by erasmus

  • Jan 1, 1514

    Raphael paints the portrait of baldassare castiglione

  • Jan 1, 1519

    The aztec empire is conquered by the spanish

  • Jan 1, 1521

    Martin Luther presents the 95 Thesis

  • Jan 1, 1521

    The church excommunicates Luther

  • Jan 1, 1528

    The book of the Courtier , Written by Baldassare Castiglione

  • Jan 1, 1534

    Henry VIII of england issues the Act of Supremacy

  • Jan 1, 1536

    John Calvin publishes Institutes of the christian religions

  • Jan 1, 1555

    Peace of Augsburg

  • Jan 1, 1571

    Thomas mun , the father of mercantilism , is born and dies

  • the 30 year war takes place