Renaissance Timeline By taylor.ayers Jan 1, 1449 Lorenzo Medici was born! Jan 1, 1455 Gutenberg prints the first bible! Nov 1, 1478 Spanish Inquisition is introduced! Oct 1, 1492 Columbus discovers the new world! Jul 1, 1497 Vasco da Gama sails to India! Jan 1, 1501 Michelangelo sculpts the David! Jan 1, 1503 Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa! Jan 1, 1513 Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince! Jan 1, 1516 Rapheal paints the Transfiguration! Jan 1, 1516 Thomas More writes Utopia! Oct 31, 1517 Martin Luther posted 95 theses Jan 1, 1529 King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican church! Jan 1, 1536 John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion! Apr 19, 1541 Founding of the Society of Jesus by Ignatius of Loyola! Jan 1, 1543 Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres! Apr 26, 1564 William Shakespeare is born! Jan 1, 1574 Elizabeth I begins rule in England! Jan 1, 1584 Sir Walter Raleigh tries to establish Roanoke! Jan 1, 1588 King Phillip II of Spain assembles the Spanish Armada! Jan 1, 1603 Galileo invents a thermometer!
