Renaissance Timeline By Alexis Martin Jan 1, 1449 Lorenzo de' Medici is born Jan 2, 1450 Gutenberg prints the first Bible Jan 2, 1480 Spanish Inquisition is introduced Jan 2, 1492 Christopher Columbus found the New World Jul 8, 1497 Vasco da Gama sails to India Jan 2, 1503 Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa Jan 25, 1504 Michelangelo sculpts the "David" Jan 3, 1516 Rapheal paints the Transfiguration Jan 4, 1516 Thomas More writes Utopia Jan 2, 1517 Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church Jan 4, 1532 Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince Jan 4, 1536 John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion Sep 27, 1540 Founding of the Society of Jesus by Ignatius of Loyola Jan 3, 1543 Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres Jan 17, 1559 Elizabeth I begins rule in England Jan 3, 1564 William Shakespeare is born Jan 4, 1570 King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican church Jan 3, 1585 Sir Walter Raleigh tries to establish Roanoke (present day North Carolina Aug 8, 1588 King Phillip II of Spain assembles the Spanish Armada Jan 4, 1603 Galileo invents a thermometer
