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410 BCE
Invading armies sack Rome
The Sack of Rome occurred on 24 August 410. The city was attacked by the Visigoths led by King Alaric -
1308
Dante writes Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy is a long narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320 -
1350
Italian Renaissance begins
Florence, where the Italian Renaissance began. divided into independent city-states -
1387
Chaucer writes The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of 24 stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. In 1386, Chaucer became Controller of Customs and Justice of Peace and, in 1389, Clerk of the King's work. -
1413
Donatello creates his statue of St. George
Statue of St George made by Donatello. Donatello was commissioned to create a statue of St. George around 1413 -
1434
Jan van Eyck paints the Arnolfini portrait
it is a 1434 oil painting on oak panel by the early Netherlands painter Jan Van Eyck was created 1434 and finished later that year -
1447
Last Visconti Ruler of Milan
Visconti rule in Milan ended with the death of Filippo Maria Visconti in 1447. -
1455
Gultenburg Prints Bible using movable type
Johann Gutenberg is the inventor of the press printer -
1464
The Medici Family takes control of Florece
rose to political power in 1434 and ruled Florence as an uncrowned monarch for the rest of his life -
1494
charles VIII of France invaded Naples
Charles came to imagine himself capable of actually taking Naples and invade Italy.
invaded Italy with 25000 men in September 1449 and marched across the Peninsula Virtually unopposed
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1503
Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
the Mona Lisa is a portrait painted by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci. oil painting -
1508
Michelangelo begins panting the Sistine Chapel
The Sistine Chapel ceiling, painted by Michelangelo between 1508 and 151, chapel was named by Pope Sixtus IV -
1509
Erasmus writes his satire The Praise of Folly
it is an essay written in Latin in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam and first printed in June 1511 -
1516
Charles I is elected Holy Roman Emperor
Charles V was ruler of both the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 and the Spanish Empire from 1516 -
1517
Martin Luther presents the Ninety-five Theses
The Ninety-five Theses is a list of propositions for an academic disputation written in 1517 by Martin Luther. explains how the indulgence is wrong -
1521
The Church excommunicates Martin Luther
On January 3, 1521, Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther because he was rebelling against catholic church -
1528
Castiglione writes The Book of the Courtier
The Book of the Courtier was written by Baldassare Castiglione over the course of many years, beginning in 1508, and was ultimately published in 1528 by the Aldine Press in Venice just before his death. -
1531
War between the Protestant and Catholic states in Switzerland
The Second War of Kappel was an armed conflict in 1531 between the Protestant and the Roman Catholic cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy during the Reformation in Switzerland. -wikipedia -
1531
Henry VIII creates the Church of England
The Supreme Head of the Church of England was a title created in 1531 for King Henry VIII of England, who was responsible for the foundation of the English Protestant church that broke away from the authority of the Roman Catholic Church after Pope Paul III excommunicated Henry in 1533 over his divorce from Catherine -wikipedia -
1532
Machiavelli writes The Prince
The Prince is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. -
1534
The Act of Supremacy is passed in England
The name "Act of Supremacy" is given to two separate acts of the English Parliament, one passed in 1534 and the other in 1559. Both acts had the same purpose; to firmly establish the English monarch as the official head of the Church of England, supplanting the power of the Catholic pope in Rome. -
1534
The Society of Jesus becomes a religious order
Jesuit, member of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic order of religious men founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola, noted for its educational, missionary, and charitable works. cathloic teachings were required in education -
1545
The Council of Trent is formed
The Council of Trent, held between 1545 and 1563 in Trent, Prompted by the Protestant Reformation, it has been described as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation. -
1553
Mary Tudor, “Bloody Mary,” becomes Queen of England
Mary I, also known as Mary Tudor, was the Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death. She is best known for her aggressive attempt to reverse the English Reformation, which had begun during the reign of her father, Henry VIII. -
1555
The Peace of Augsburg divides Germany
The Peace of Augsburg, which was a result of the Reformation, was signed in 1555 and divided Europe into the Roman Catholic Church and the new Lutheran (Protestant) Church. a treaty between Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and the Schmalkaldic League, signed in September 1555 at the imperial city of Augsburg.
