Renaissance and reformation

  • Dec 8, 1310

    dante writes the divine comedy

  • Dec 8, 1390

    chaucer writes the canterbury tales

  • Dec 8, 1415

    donatello creates his statue of st. george

  • Dec 8, 1434

    jan van eyck paints the arnolfini portrait

  • Dec 8, 1447

    last visconti ruler of milan dies

  • Dec 8, 1494

    charles VIII of france invades Naples

  • Dec 8, 1505

    leonardo da vinci paints the mona lisa

  • Dec 8, 1509

    erasmus writes his satire the praise of folly

  • Dec 8, 1513

    Machiavelli writes the prince

  • Dec 8, 1517

    martin luther king presents the ninty-five theses

  • Dec 8, 1521

    the church excommunicates luther

  • Dec 8, 1527

    Invading armies sack rome

  • Dec 8, 1528

    castiglione writes the book of the caurtier

  • Dec 8, 1531

    war between the protestant and catholic states in switzerland

  • Dec 8, 1534

    The act of supremacy is passed in england

  • Dec 8, 1540

    the sociaty of jesus becomes reliogious order

  • Dec 8, 1545

    the council of trent is formed

  • Dec 8, 1553

    mary tudor ,"bloody mary" becomes queen of england

  • Dec 8, 1555

    the peace of augsburg divides germany