Renaissance Time Line (1300-1600)

By bayleeclaycomb
  • Jan 1, 1449

    Birth of Lorenzo de' Medici

    Florence, Italy. Lorenzo was a wealthy, diplomat, politician and patron of scholars, artists and poets.
  • 1455

    Gutenberg prints the first Bible

    produced first book ever printed in Latin in Mainz, Germany.
  • Jul 3, 1492

    Columbus discovers the new world

    Set sail on 3 ships and landed on the Bahamian Castle islands
  • 1501

    Michelangelo sculpts the David

    Sculpted a 5.17 meter marble statue of biblical hero David
  • 1503

    Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa

    Florence, Italy
    A half-length portrait painting that has been described as "the best known work of art in the world"
  • 1513

    Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince

    published after death in 1532, ways a prince can achieve power.
  • Oct 31, 1517

    Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church

    Acting on belief, Martin Luther posted a list of questions for debate Wittenberg Church
  • 1536

    John Calvin publishes the Institutes of the Christian Religion

    Seminal work of protestant theology
  • 1541

    Founding of the Society of Jesus by Ignatius of Loyola

    Scholarly religious congregation of the catholic church
    Montmarte, Paris, France
  • 1543

    Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres

    Seminal work on the heliocentric theory, published after his death so he didn't get criticized as harshly.
  • 1564

    William Shakespeare is born

    Stratford-upon-Avon UK
    poet, playwright, and actor, Widely regarded as the best writer in the English language

  • Galileo invents a thermometer

    Discovered that the density of liquids react to different temperatures