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Renaissance Timeline

  • Bubonic Plague begins
    1347

    Bubonic Plague begins

    The Bubonic Plague devastated Europe's population during the dark ages.
  • The Renaissance Begins
    1350

    The Renaissance Begins

    The Renaissance was an intellectual and artistic movement. Humanism was created and religion was beginning to lose its foot hold on society.
  • Joan of Arc and the Siege of Orleans
    1429

    Joan of Arc and the Siege of Orleans

    Joan of Arcs first military victory was the turning point in the 100 years was between England and France
  • Johann Gutenberg invents the printing press
    1439

    Johann Gutenberg invents the printing press

    Revolutionized the manufacturing of books and also the studies of art and religion.
  • Cosimo de Medici dies
    1464

    Cosimo de Medici dies

    Cosimo was considered the father of the nation by some.
  • The Spanish Inquisition
    1478

    The Spanish Inquisition

    One of the most deadly inquistions is history, it ws designed to root out all noncathollics
  • Sandro Botticelli paints birth of Venus
    1486

    Sandro Botticelli paints birth of Venus

    Painted as a result of the platonic academy, one of the famous pieces of art during the Renaissance.
  • Columbus discovers the America's
    1492

    Columbus discovers the America's

    The discovery of the americas would lead to colonization of them a hundred years later.
  • DaVinci paints the Last Supper
    1493

    DaVinci paints the Last Supper

    The Last Supper depicts the next few seconds in this story as Christ tells his deciples that one of them betrayed him.
  • Raphael paints The School of Athens
    1510

    Raphael paints The School of Athens

    Many consider this to be Raphaels masterpiece becase is captures the calssical spirit of the Renaissance
  • MIchelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel
    1512

    MIchelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel

    Requested by the Pope, Michelangelo painted nine scenes from the Old Testament onto the ceiling and walls of the Sistine Chapel.
  • Magellan set sail and his crew circumnavigated the world
    1519

    Magellan set sail and his crew circumnavigated the world

    Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Seville for what will be the first successful circumnavigation of Earth.
  • Start of the European wars of Religion
    1524

    Start of the European wars of Religion

    The religious wars were cause by the Pretestant Refrormation in western and norhtern Europe. Fought betweeen CHristians and Protestants.
  • Scientific Revolution Starts
    1543

    Scientific Revolution Starts

    The scientific revolution was an era in which new ideas like physics, chemistry, medicine, and biology formed and paved the way for modern science.
  • Edict of Nantes

    Edict of Nantes

    Issued by King Henry the IV of France, it gave non-Catholics in France civil rights.