MAIN HISTORICAL FACTS

  • Beginning of the middle ages
    476

    Beginning of the middle ages

    The falling of the Roman empire of occident in 476
  • Musical event
    509

    Musical event

    Church music.
  • POLITICAL EVENT
    525

    POLITICAL EVENT

    525 – Anno Domini calendar invented
  • Period: 1330 to 1550

    Political timespan

    The Renaissance was a fervent period of European cultural, artistic, political and economic “rebirth” following the Middle Ages.
  • Event of the beginning of the Renaissance
    1400

    Event of the beginning of the Renaissance

    Key Dates in Renaissance Philosophy, Politics, Religion, and Science · 1400
  • Period: 1400 to

    Cultural timespan

    This timeline lists some major works of culture alongside important political events that occurred during the traditional period of 1400 to 1600
  • cultural event
    1451

    cultural event

    1451 to 1475: Leonardo da Vinci and the Gutenberg Bible. Chris Hellier / Getty Images
  • Event of the middle ages
    1453

    Event of the middle ages

    Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, fell to the hands of the invading Ottoman Empire on May 29, 1453
  • Political event
    1454

    Political event

    Arguably one of the key events in the Renaissance, in 1454, Johannes Gutenberg published the Gutenberg Bible,
  • Falling of rome
    1527

    Falling of rome

    The Renaissance as a unified historical period ended with the fall of Rome in 1527.
  • Period: to

    Musical timespan

    Harmony