Renaissance Timeline By aireonowsley Jan 3, 1449 Birth of Lorenzo de' Medici Jan 3, 1450 Gutenberg prints the first Bible Jan 3, 1480 Spanish Inquisition is discovered Jan 3, 1492 Colombus discovers new world Jan 3, 1498 Vasco da Gama sails to India Jan 3, 1501 Michelangelo sculpts the David Jan 3, 1505 Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince Jan 3, 1516 Thomas More writes Utopia Jan 3, 1516 Rapheal paints the Transfiguration Jan 3, 1517 95 Theses on the door of Catholic Church Jan 3, 1519 Leonardo da Vinci paints Mona Lisa Jan 3, 1534 King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican church Jan 3, 1536 Institutes of the Christian Religion Jan 3, 1540 Society of Jesus by Ignatius of Loyola Jan 3, 1543 On the Revolution of the Celeste Spheres Jan 3, 1558 Elizabeth begins ruling England Jan 3, 1564 William Shakespeare is born Jan 3, 1584 King Phillip II assembles the Spanish Armada Jan 3, 1585 Sir Walter Raleigh tries to establish Roanoke Jan 3, 1603 Galileo invents a thermometer
