• Johannes Gutenberg
    Jan 1, 1398

    Johannes Gutenberg

    Johannes Gutenberg, a well known Goldsmith was born in 1398 and died February 3, 1468. He is best known for inventing the western Printing press.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1400 to

    This Is The Renaissance

  • Printing Press
    May 30, 1440

    Printing Press

    Johannes Gutenberg invents his printing press. It makes books easier to mass produce, limits the power of governments and churches, and spreads literacy all over Europe.
  • Donatello sculpts the bronze David
    Dec 31, 1440

    Donatello sculpts the bronze David

    Donatello, a renaissance sculpter, created a statue of the biblical hero David around the year 1440. It was a male nude depicting a young boy with a slingshot.
  • Lorenzo de Medici
    Jan 1, 1449

    Lorenzo de Medici

    Lorenzo was born in 1449. He ruled Florence Italy from 1469-1492, when he died. He took control of Florence when his grandfather, Cosimo died.
  • Fall of Constantinople
    May 29, 1453

    Fall of Constantinople

    The Ottoman's took over Constantinople. Constantinople was named in favor of Constantine, who was the fist king of Constantinople.
  • Aerial Screw, DaVinci's Helicopter
    Jun 1, 1480

    Aerial Screw, DaVinci's Helicopter

    Davinci's concept of a Helicopter, showing the dinamics of lift and hinting at the future of flight.
  • The Birth of Venus
    Jun 1, 1486

    The Birth of Venus

    One of Botticelli's most famous paintings, the Birth of Venus is a Roman/Pagan artwork painted by the Artist Sandro Botticelli, who painted a lot of pagan/religious artworks and was commissioned by the Medici family.
  • Vitruvian Man
    Jun 1, 1487

    Vitruvian Man

    Painter/scientist, Leonardo DaVinci, did this drawing of the man and his full range of motion.
  • Christopher Columbus
    Oct 12, 1492

    Christopher Columbus

    Christopher Columbus (Cristobal Colon) sailed the atlantic ocean in hopes of finding India. But instead his crew discovered a new land, which they called America.
  • Juan Ponce de Leon
    Nov 1, 1493

    Juan Ponce de Leon

    Juan Ponce de Leon lands in the Carribean with a fleet led by Christopher Columbus. This was Chris's second voyage to the New World.
  • Vasco de Gama
    Dec 25, 1497

    Vasco de Gama

    Vasco de Gama
    Portuguese Navagator, Vasco de Gama, went around the cape of good hope to reach India.
  • Paris Bordone
    Jul 5, 1500

    Paris Bordone

    Italian mannerist painter trained by Titian. He didn't like Titian. He painted a lot of nudes.
  • Leonardo DaVinci paints Mona Lisa
    May 29, 1504

    Leonardo DaVinci paints Mona Lisa

    Leonardo Davinci created this classic in the years before he died. It, alongside The Scream, is one of the most popular painings in history.
  • Michelangelo's David
    May 30, 1504

    Michelangelo's David

    Michelangelo created his own David from marble in 1504. It was a very large male nude. Michelangelo sculpted trying to capture the perfect beauty of the man's body.
  • Ferdinand Magellan
    Jun 4, 1519

    Ferdinand Magellan

    Ferdinand Magellan begins his voyage around the world. He heads west around South America from Spain.
  • Magellan Dies
    Apr 27, 1521

    Magellan Dies

    Magellan dies in the Philipines
  • Galileo Galilei
    May 31, 1564

    Galileo Galilei

    Galileo was born in 1564 and died in 1642. He showed that the weight of an object doesn't determine how fast it falls and hits the ground. A marble and a bowling ball dropped from the same height at the same time will hit the ground at the same time.
  • Jakob Bohme
    Apr 4, 1575

    Jakob Bohme

    Jakob Bohme is born on this day. he was a german christian Philosopher
  • Romeo and Juliet

    Romeo and Juliet

    Shakespeare wrote this tragedy about a couple of teens who fall in love and end up dead at the end because they each thought the other was dead. Juliet pretended to kill herself. Then Romeo killed himself and then Juliet really killed herself.
  • Shakespeare writes Hamlet

    Shakespeare writes Hamlet

    William Shakespeare wrote the play Hamlet in this year. the actual date of the play's writing is unknown.