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ruler of the Florentine Republic
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Gutenberg produced what is considered to be the first book ever printed: a Latin language Bible, printed in Mainz, Germany.
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is the seminal work on the heliocentric theory of the Renaissance astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus
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was established in 1478
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Discovers America, 1492.
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is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created between 1501 and 1504 by Michelangelo
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is known for his 1516 book Utopia and for his untimely death in 1535,
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The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world
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On this day in 1517, the priest and scholar Martin Luther approaches the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany
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the Transfiguration is the last painting by the Italian High Renaissance master Raphael
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was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death
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Niccoló Machiavelli wrote The Prince in 1513, but it wasn't published until 1532, five years after his death
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was a Spanish knight from a local Basque noble family, hermit, priest since 1537, and theologian, who founded the Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
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was the second son of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York.
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Highly influential in the Western world[1] and still widely read by theological students today, it was published in Latin in 1536 (at the same time as the English King Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries
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William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
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Sir Walter Raleigh funded expeditions to Roanoke Island
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Great and Most Fortunate Navy") was a Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from A Coruña in August 1588, under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia with the purpose of escorting an army from Flanders to invade England.
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Galileo Galilei discovered that the density of liquids (how much they contract and expand) reacts predictably to changes in temperature
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Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama becomes the first European to reach India via the Atlantic Ocean
