Northern Renaissance

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  • Jan 1, 1440

    Invention of the printing press

    Invention of the printing press
    Johannes Gutenberg, invented the first printing press, and began printing the Gutenberg bible.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1440 to

    Northern Renaissance

  • Apr 14, 1452

    Leonardo Da Vinci born

    Leonardo Da Vinci born
    Famous Firenze painter, sculptor, and inventor is born.
  • May 29, 1453

    Fall of Constantinople

    Fall of Constantinople
    It fell to the armies of Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II. Constantine XI was killed defending the city, and four days later Santa Sophia, Justinian's "greatest church in Christendom", had become a mosque.
  • May 29, 1453

    Hundred years' war ends

    Hundred years' war ends
    The Hundred Years' War was a series of battles waged from 1337 to 1453.
  • Mar 9, 1454

    Amerigo Vespucci born

    Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer. The Americas are generally believed to have derived their name from the feminized Latin version of his first name.
  • Nov 17, 1478

    Spanish inquistion starts

    Spanish inquistion starts
    Although the institution of The Inquisition had been around since 1231, it only became a byword for terror and indiscriminate torture in Spain in 1478, when Ferdinand and Isabella, with the support of Sixtus IV.
  • Jan 1, 1500

    Protestant Reformation begins

    Protestant Reformation begins
    Movement used to drive away roman catholics away from the protestants.
  • May 6, 1527

    Sack of Rome

    Sack of Rome
    Military event carried out by the mutinous troops of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor in Rome.
  • Aug 10, 1530

    End of the siege of florence

    End of the siege of florence
    The Siege of Florence took place from October 24, 1529 to August 10 1530, at the end of the War of the League of Cognac.

  • Death of Elizabeth I

    Death of Elizabeth I
    Her reign was known for it's flourishing of drama and theater.