Renaissance

By jayvonhead
  • 1449

    Birth of Lorenzo De'Medici

    A Italian Statesman
  • 1455

    Gutenberg prints the first Bible

    Johann Gutenberg holds the distinction of being the inventor of the movable-type printing press. In 1455, Gutenberg produced what is considered to be the first book ever printed: a Latin language Bible, printed in Mainz, Germany.
  • 1504

    Michelangelo sculpts the David

    It is a 14.0 ft marble statue depicting the Biblical hero David, represented as a standing male nude.
  • 1506

    Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa

    The painting is thought to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, and is in oil on a white Lombardy poplar panel.
  • 1517

    Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church

    Martin Luther posts his 95 theses. On this day in 1517, the priest and scholar Martin Luther approaches the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, and nails a piece of paper to it containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation.
  • 1532

    Thomas More writes Utopia

    Sir Thomas More, venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist.
  • 1534

    King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican church

    declared himself to be supreme head of the Church of England. This resulted in a schism with the Papacy. As a result of this schism, many non-Anglicans consider that the Church of England only existed from the 16th century Protestant Reformation.
  • 1543

    Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres

    is the seminal work on the heliocentric theory of the Renaissance astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus
  • 1564

    William Shakespeare is born

    William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist.

  • Galileo invents a thermometer

    A Galileo thermometer is a thermometer made of a sealed glass cylinder containing a clear liquid and several glass vessels of varying density. As the temperature changes, the individual floats rise or fall in proportion to their respective density and the density of the surrounding liquid.