Renaissance and Reformation

By taylor333
  • Reflecting telescope
    1668 BCE

    Reflecting telescope

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

    Cuckoo clocks

    made in Furtwangen, Germany, in the Black Forest region
  • Miguel de Cervantes
    1613 BCE

    Miguel de Cervantes

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

    Luther was excommunicated

    Luther was excommunicated from the Church
  • Niccolo Machiavelli
    1513 BCE

    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
  • First African Slaves
    1502 BCE

    First African Slaves

    reported African slaves in the New World for the first time.
  • sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti
    1401 BCE

    sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti

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

    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.
  • French Clergy
    1301 BCE

    French Clergy

    the king tried to tax the French clergy