Renaissance and Reformation

By taylor333
  • 1668 BCE

    Reflecting telescope

    Reflecting telescope
    Isaac Newton a mathematician and physicist invented a reflecting telescope
  • 1660 BCE

    Cuckoo clocks

    Cuckoo clocks
    made in Furtwangen, Germany, in the Black Forest region
  • 1613 BCE

    Miguel de Cervantes

    Miguel de Cervantes
    Miguel was a Spanish influential writer during the Renaissance. He wrote numerous plays and works of fiction, including Novelas ejemplares
  • 1521 BCE

    Luther was excommunicated

    Luther was excommunicated
    Luther was excommunicated from the Church
  • 1513 BCE

    Niccolo Machiavelli

    Niccolo Machiavelli
    Machiavelli was a diplomat in Florence who tried to answer how could a ruler guarantee that he would stay in power by writing The Prince
  • 1502 BCE

    First African Slaves

    First African Slaves
    reported African slaves in the New World for the first time.
  • 1401 BCE

    sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti

    sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti
    He won a major competition to design a new set of bronze doors for the Baptistery of the cathedral of Florence.
  • 1377 BCE

    Pope Gregory

    Pope Gregory
    Pope Gregory moved the papacy back to Rome
  • Period: 1350 BCE to 1450 BCE

    The Black Death

    The Black Death influenced the development of the Renaissance. 80% of the population died because of it. It hit during 1350 and ended in 1450.
  • 1301 BCE

    French Clergy

    French Clergy
    the king tried to tax the French clergy