Koenig Renaissance Timeline

By Koenigr
  • Period: Jan 1, 1350 to

    Koenig- Renaissance Timeline

    A timeline of the Renaissance and the impact on Europe
  • Francesco Petrarca death
    Jul 19, 1374

    Francesco Petrarca death

    Francesco Petrarca, commonly anglicized as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar and poet during the early Italian Renaissance who was one of the earliest humanists
  • Filippo Brunelleschi Born
    Jan 1, 1377

    Filippo Brunelleschi Born

    Filippo Brunelleschi, considered to be a founding father of Renaissance architecture
  • Birth of Lorenzo Ghiberti
    Jan 1, 1378

    Birth of Lorenzo Ghiberti

    an artist during the renaissance
  • Donatello is born
    Jan 1, 1386

    Donatello is born

    Another influential sculptor is born
  • Francesco Foscari becoes 65th doge
    Apr 15, 1423

    Francesco Foscari becoes 65th doge

    Francecos reign was the longest reign in Venetian history. It lasted 34 years 6 months and 8 days.
  • Cosimo Medici takes over the bank
    Jan 1, 1429

    Cosimo Medici takes over the bank

    After his father died Cosimo Took overrule as the head of the bank. Soon after he gained power he was able to lead the city.
  • Siege of orleans
    Jan 1, 1429

    Siege of orleans

    Joan of arc ends an 100 year between england and france
  • The printing press
    Jan 1, 1440

    The printing press

    The printing press helped created books to get around Europe during the renaissance. It also led to the creation of the Gutenberg bible since Gutenberg himself invented the press
  • Filippo Brunelleschi
    Apr 15, 1446

    Filippo Brunelleschi

    was an Italian architect and designer, recognized to be the first modern engineer, planner, and sole construction supervisor
  • Donatello dies
    Dec 13, 1446

    Donatello dies

    another influential painter is gone from the renaissance
  • Pope Nicholas V To be The Throne
    Mar 6, 1447

    Pope Nicholas V To be The Throne

    The pope helped Rome become the renaissance city that it was today.
  • Lorenzo de medici born
    Jan 1, 1449

    Lorenzo de medici born

    Lorenzo de' Medici was an Italian statesman, de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic and the most powerful and enthusiastic patron of Renaissance culture in Italy
  • Da Vinci is born
    Apr 15, 1452

    Da Vinci is born

    Da vinci was soon to become one of the most influential artists in the renaissance time period.
  • Gutenberg bible printed
    Oct 22, 1455

    Gutenberg bible printed

    The Gutenberg bible was one of the first books to be printed. and it gave people a religion to follow
  • Death of Lorenzo Ghiberti
    Dec 1, 1455

    Death of Lorenzo Ghiberti

    another influential artist has passed away
  • Cosimo Medici dies
    Aug 1, 1464

    Cosimo Medici dies

    Cosimo medici was the head of the family that ruled over italy
  • Nicolaus Copernicus
    Feb 19, 1473

    Nicolaus Copernicus

    A famous mathematician during the renaissance
  • Michaelangelo is born
    Mar 6, 1475

    Michaelangelo is born

    soon to become one of the most influential sculptors
  • Spanish inquistion begins
    Nov 1, 1478

    Spanish inquistion begins

    The Reconquest of Spain by the Christian Spaniards the leaders of Spain needed a way to unify the country into a strong nation.
  • Sandro Botticelli paints Birth of Venus
    Jan 1, 1486

    Sandro Botticelli paints Birth of Venus

    Painting Sandro Botticelli. It depicts the goddess Venus, having emerged from the sea as a fully grown woman
  • Lorenzo de medici death
    Apr 8, 1492

    Lorenzo de medici death

    Also known as Lorenzo the Magnificent by contemporary Florentines, he was a magnate, diplomat, politician and patron of scholars, artists and poets. As well as losing a soon to be ruler of italy
  • Columbus Discovers the americas
    Oct 12, 1492

    Columbus Discovers the americas

    Columbus has found the very place that we live on today
  • Medici family are forced out
    Jan 1, 1494

    Medici family are forced out

    The Medici family did so much to help rome and become the place it is today. then they are forced out of Rome because people started to believe good faith.
  • Michelangelo makes the Pietà
    Jan 1, 1498

    Michelangelo makes the Pietà

    The Pietà is a work of Renaissance sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City. It is the first of a number of works of the same theme by the artist. The statue was commissioned for the French Cardinal Jean de Bilhères, who was a representative in Rome
  • The last supper is finsished by da vinci
    Jan 1, 1498

    The last supper is finsished by da vinci

    The most famous pictue is now finished
  • 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
  • Niccolo Machiavelli makes The Prince
    Jan 1, 1513

    Niccolo Machiavelli makes The Prince

    The prince was written after Niccolo was forced to leave Florence for a political exile. the book is mainly saying how to keep and gain political power
  • Utopia
    Jan 1, 1516

    Utopia

    Thomas more uses utopia to spread the worst possible thing that could happen to soceity.
  • Start of European Wars of Religion
    Jan 1, 1517

    Start of European Wars of Religion

    The European wars of religion were a series of wars waged in Europe from ca. 1524 to 1648, following the onset of the Protestant Reformation
  • Martin Luther Nails the 95 theses on the door of the Witherburg Church
    Oct 31, 1517

    Martin Luther Nails the 95 theses on the door of the Witherburg Church

    Martin Luther challenges the traditional practices of the church and Pope Leo the X. Luther believed that a person wealth should not impact their status of the afterlife.
  • Leonardo Da Vinci Death
    May 2, 1519

    Leonardo Da Vinci Death

    Leonardo da Vinci was one of the most influential artists of the Italian renaissance. He contributed to so much work of the renaissance
  • Da Vinci Dies
    May 2, 1519

    Da Vinci Dies

    Leonardo da vinci was a very influential artist who died and it took its toll on the people
  • Brunelleschi invents linear perspective
    Jan 1, 1520

    Brunelleschi invents linear perspective

    Brunelleschi is famous for two panel paintings using optical linear perspective made in the early 1400s
  • Rapheal is born
    Apr 6, 1520

    Rapheal is born

    Rapheal came to be one of the most famous painters
  • Rapheal dies
    Apr 6, 1520

    Rapheal dies

    One of the most most famous painters at the time has died
  • Ivan the Terrible is born
    Aug 25, 1530

    Ivan the Terrible is born

    van was Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 until his death. His long reign saw the conquest of the Khanates of Kazan, Astrakhan, and Siberia but had mental illness and a bad temper
  • Henry the 8th
    Jan 1, 1533

    Henry the 8th

    Henry the 8th wa ex comminucated from the churches because he got a divorce without permission from church
  • Michel de montaigne born
    Feb 28, 1533

    Michel de montaigne born

    Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Lord of Montaigne was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance
  • Jesuit Order founded by Ignatius Loyola
    Aug 1, 1534

    Jesuit Order founded by Ignatius Loyola

    Ignatius Loyola founded the Jesuits (the Society of Jesus). The Jesuits were one of the major spearheads of the Counter-Reformation.
  • Desiderius Erasmus Death
    Jul 12, 1536

    Desiderius Erasmus Death

    Desiderius Erasmus was a vital part of the catholic church. He was a catholic priest and a Humanist as well. Desiderius Erasmus was a major part of the catholic church ad we had died the curch lost someone special
  • Scientific Revolution / Copernicus
    Jan 1, 1543

    Scientific Revolution / Copernicus

    The Enlightenment. It was sparked by the publication in 1543 of two works that changed the course of science: Nicolaus Copernicus's De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
  • Nicolaus Copernicus dies
    May 24, 1543

    Nicolaus Copernicus dies

    the Italian region lost another influential person in this time where they need these people to help them prosper
  • Spain declares Bankruptcy for the first time
    Jan 1, 1557

    Spain declares Bankruptcy for the first time

    Philip II of Spain had to declare four state bankruptcies in 1557,
  • Coronation of Queen Elizabeth I
    Jan 15, 1559

    Coronation of Queen Elizabeth I

    Elizabeth had inherited the throne from her half-sister Mary I, who had died on the 17th November 1558.
  • Galileo Galilei
    Feb 15, 1564

    Galileo Galilei

    Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer,
  • Michaelangelo dies
    Feb 18, 1564

    Michaelangelo dies

    the influetial sculpor has died.
  • William Shakespeare Born
    Apr 1, 1564

    William Shakespeare Born

    William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist
  • Saint Bartholomew Massacre
    Aug 24, 1572

    Saint Bartholomew Massacre

    The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations followed by a wave of Roman Catholic mob violence
  • Michel de Montaigne death

    Michel de Montaigne death

    His work was noted for its merging of casual anecdotes and autobiography with intellectual insight.
  • Edict of Nantes

    Edict of Nantes

    Issued by Henry IV of France, granted the Calvinist Protestants of France (also known as Huguenots) substantial rights in a nation still considered essentially Catholic. In the Edict, Henry aimed primarily to promote civil unity