Renaissance Timeline

  • 381 BCE

    Plato's Republic

  • 2

    Ovid's Art of Love

  • Period: 1304 to 1374

    Francesco Petrarch

    Philosopher, Poet
  • Period: 1455 to 1485

    War of the Roses

    Dynastic Civil War between Lancaster and Tudor Houses
  • Period: 1491 to 1547

    Henry VIII

    King of England
  • Period: 1503 to 1542

    Sir Thomas Wyatt

    Poet
  • 1517

    Martin Luther's Ninety Five Theses

  • Period: 1533 to

    Elizabeth I

    Queen of England
  • Period: 1542 to

    Mary, Queen of Scots

    Queen of Scotland and France
  • 1543

    Copernicus' 'On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres'

  • Period: 1552 to

    Edmund Spenser

    Poet
  • Period: 1554 to

    Sir Philip Sidney

    Poet
  • Period: 1564 to

    Christopher Marlowe

    Poet, Playwright
  • Period: 1564 to

    William Shakespeare

    POet, Playwright
  • Period: 1566 to

    James I

    King of England
  • Period: 1572 to

    Ben Jonson

    Playwright
  • Period: 1572 to

    John Donne

    Poet
  • Publication of Shakespeare's Henry VI

  • Sidney's Astrophel and Stella

  • Spenser's Amoretti

  • Period: to

    Charles I

    King of England
  • Publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet

  • Publication of the King James Version Bible