Renaissance Events

By Felix Ceja
  • Jan 1, 1449

    Birth of Lorenzo de Medici

  • Aug 3, 1449

    Columbus discovers the new world

  • Dec 7, 1450

    Gutenberg prints the first bible

    No known month or day
  • Nov 1, 1478

    Spanish inquisition is introduced

  • Jun 28, 1491

    King Henry VIII begins protestant anglican church

  • Jul 1, 1497

    Vasco de Gama sails to India

    No day just know to be in July
  • Dec 7, 1503

    Michelangelo sculpts the David

    No known month or day just is known to be somewhere between 1501-1504
  • Dec 7, 1503

    Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa

    no known month or date
  • Apr 7, 1513

    Niccolo Machiavelli writes the prince

    Just known to be in the spring
  • Dec 7, 1516

    Thomas Moore writes utopia

    No known month or day
  • Oct 31, 1517

    Martin Luther post 95 Theses on the door of castle church

  • Dec 7, 1520

    Raphael finish the Transfiguration

    no known month or day
  • Sep 7, 1533

    Elizabeth I begins rule in england

  • Dec 7, 1536

    John Calvin publishes institutes of the christian religion

    No known month or day
  • Sep 27, 1540

    founding of the society of jesus by ignatius of loyola

  • Dec 7, 1543

    Nicolas Copernicus publishes on the revolution of the Celestial spheres

    no known month or day

  • Sir Walter Raleigh tries to establish Roanoke (present day north carolina)

    no month or date

  • King Philip II of Spain assembles the Spanish Armada

    No known exact day

  • Galileo invents a thermometer

    no known month or date

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