Northern renaissance

Northern Renaissance

  • Jan 1, 1440

    Invention of the Printig Press

    Invention of the Printig Press
    Invention of the printing press, was creatd by German Johannes Gutenberg who was a goldsmith by profession , but perfected the printing process thrugh all it's stages by adapting existing technologies to printing purposes.
  • Jan 1, 1441

    Jan Van Eyck

    Jan Van Eyck
    Jan Van Eyck was a flemish painter active in Bruges and considered one of thebest Northern European Painters in the 15th-century, with works that included,The Crucifixtion , Last Judgement ,and Annuciation
  • Apr 15, 1446

    Filippo Brunelleshi

    Filippo Brunelleshi
    Filippo Brunelleshi, was one of the foremost architects and engeneers , and was most famous for inventing linear perspective, which is an aproximate representation, on a flat surface of an image as it is seen by the eye.
  • Jan 1, 1492

    Christoper Columbus Discovery

    Christoper Columbus Discovery
    Christopher Columbus left Spain in the Santa Maria, with the Pinta and the Niña alongside.He has been credited for opening up the Americas to European colonization. With the saying " Columbus siled the ocean blue in fourteen hundrea nintey two".
  • Sep 12, 1494

    Francins the First of France

    Francins the First of France
    While he was in power he made huge cultural changes and he has been called France's original Renaissance monarch. He had an everbearing rivalry with the Emporer Charles V for hemony in Europe.
  • Jan 1, 1510

    Thomas Tallis

    Thomas Tallis
    Thomad Tallis , an English composer, grew as a musician and is cnsiderd one of the church's best early composers. Queen Elizabeth, granted him and his pupil, Willian Byrd, exclusive rights to use England's printing prss to publish his music.
  • Jan 1, 1516

    Death of Giovanni Bellini

     Death of Giovanni Bellini
    Giovanni Bellini dies around the age of 85 or 86. Bellini's incorporation of aesthetics from Northern Europe, and his many paintigs of the Modanna and Child.
  • Jan 1, 1543

    William Byrd

    William Byrd
    William Byrd is perhaps the greatest English composer of all time. Byrd seemingly masterd every style of music that existed during his lifetime
  • Apr 26, 1564

    Wiliam Shakespear

    Wiliam Shakespear
    Also known as the widley regarded greatest writer in the English language and the worlds most pre-emient dramatist
  • Death of Elizabeth the First

    Death of Elizabeth the First
    The death of Elizabeth the First, which was due to prior deaths of her family and friends, that left her not feeling like herself and sending her into a depression that lead to her getting sick and later dying.