Renaissance Timeline By cassidy.l Jul 20, 1304 Birth of Petrarch Feb 28, 1347 Bubonic Plague starts Jan 1, 1350 Renaissance begins 1413 Brunelleschi creates Linear Perspective Jan 1, 1429 Joan of Arc and the Siege of Orleans 1439 Johann Gutenberg invents the printing press Jan 1, 1449 Birth of Lorenzo de' Medici 1464 Cosimo de Medici dies May 3, 1469 Birth of Niccolo Machiavelli Feb 19, 1473 Birth of Nicolaus Copernicus Mar 6, 1475 Birth of Michelangelo 1478 The Spainish Inquistion begins Apr 6, 1483 Birth of Raphael Jan 1, 1486 Sandro Botticelli paints Birth of Venus Jan 1, 1492 Columbus discovers the America's 1495 da Vinci paints The Last Supper 1510 Raphael paints The School of Athens 1512 Michelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel 1514 Machiavelli writes the Prince 1533 Henry the 8th of England excommunicated Feb 28, 1533 Birth of Michel de Montaigne 1543 Scientific Revolution / Copernicus Apr 15, 1552 Birth of Leonardo da Vinci 1557 Spain declares bankruptcy for the 1st time 1559 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth 1 1564 Birth of William Shakespeare Feb 15, 1564 Birth of Galileo Galilei 1598 Edict of Nantes