History Timeline

  • Invention of a thermometer
    1603 BCE

    Invention of a thermometer

    This thermometer was named after Galileo, who didn't invent the first thermometer but invented the thermometer named Galileo's air thermometer.
  • William Shakespeare
    1564 BCE

    William Shakespeare

    William Shakespeare was born Apirl 1564, no one knows the exact day.
  • Publishing of the On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres
    1543 BCE

    Publishing of the On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres

    Nicolaus Copernicus published On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres right before his death in 1543.
  • Anglican church
    1530 BCE

    Anglican church

    King Henry began to Protestant Anglican church in the 1530' after the "Catholic church wouldn't allow him to annul his marriage to his first wife".
  • Martin Luther posts 95 Theses
    1517 BCE

    Martin Luther posts 95 Theses

    Martin Luther goes to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, nails a piece of paper to it that had the 95 revolutionary opinions written on it that would begin the Protestant Reformation.
  • Utopia
    1516 BCE

    Utopia

    Thomas More ,the writer of Utopia ,describes how it's a "ideal island".
  • The David
    1504 BCE

    The David

    The sculpture is located in the Accademia Gallery of Florence. There is also a second one located in Piazza della Signoria.
  • Mona Lisa
    1503 BCE

    Mona Lisa

    Leonardo da Vinci was the creator of the paint, he didn't quite finish the painting since he broke his arm in a fainting.
  • The Gutenberg Bible
    1455 BCE

    The Gutenberg Bible

    The Bible was originally written in Latin, when written it marked the "Gutenberg Revolution".
  • Birth of Lorenzo de’ Medici
    1449 BCE

    Birth of Lorenzo de’ Medici

    Lorenzo de’ Medici was born January 1, 1449 in Florence, Italy.