Renaissance By mwood1223 Period: Jan 1, 1300 to Jan 1, 1800 Renaissance Period Jan 1, 1449 Birth of Lorenzo de’ Medici Jan 1, 1460 Vasco da Gama sails to India Jan 1, 1492 Columbus discovers the new world Jan 1, 1495 Spanish Inquisition is introduced Jan 1, 1504 Michelangelo sculpts the David Jan 7, 1505 Niccolo Machiavelli Jan 1, 1516 Thomas More writes Utopia Jan 1, 1517 Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church Jan 1, 1519 Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa Jan 1, 1520 Rapheal paints the Transfiguration Jan 1, 1534 King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican church Jan 1, 1536 John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion Jan 1, 1540 Founding of the Society of Jesus by Ignatius of Loyola Jan 1, 1543 Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres Jan 1, 1558 Elizabeth I begins rule in England Jan 1, 1564 William Shakespeare is Born Jan 1, 1598 King Phillip II of Spain assembles the Spanish Armada Jan 1, 1603 Galileo invents a thermometer Jan 1, 1618 Sir Walter Raleigh tries to establish Roanoke Period: Jan 1, 1800 to Jan 1, 1900 Renaissance Period Jan 1, 1847 Gutenberg prints the first Bible
