renaissance timeline, kh, 3

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  • 1096

    The Battle of Civetot

    It was fought between the Seljuk forces of the Sultanate of Rum. It contained mainly Christians and peasants. This was the first notable conflict established. It resulted in a disastrous outcome.
  • Period: Aug 15, 1096 to 1291

    The Crusades

    The crusades were serious religious disagreements and wars. The best known of these Crusades are those to the Holy Land in the period between 1095 and 1291 that were intended to recover Jerusalem and its surrounding area from Islamic rule.
  • 1097

    Siege of Antioch

    This is an important event in The Crusades time period. Antioch lay on the crusaders’ path to Palestine. The city was located for easy access to supplies. The Muslim forces inside the city led a sortie to engage the crusaders but were defeated and driven back.
  • 1187

    Siege of Jerusalem

    It came as a result of the decisive Crusader defeat at the Battle of Hattin. He laid siege to the city from September 20, 1187, to October 2, 1187. In the end, Balian of Ibelin agreed to surrender the city as there were no hopes of relief, it ended in a peaceful surrender.
  • Period: 1346 to 1400

    The black death

    The black death was the bubonic plague occurring in western Eurasia. It was extremely fatal and nearly none recovered let alone lived. It is the most fatal pandemic in human history, causing the death of 75–200 million people.
  • 1347

    Moving Around and Starting in 1346

    12 ships from the Black Sea docked at the Sicilian port of Messina, that's when the first infected animals came and started spreading away They found this because when people went to move the shipment all the sailors were either dead or nearly dead, had black ooze and boils all over them.
  • 1350

    Reaching Baltic Countries

    By 1350 it was reaching countries such as the extreme north of England, Scotland, and Scandinavia. it was most likely carried by fleas living on the black rats that traveled on ships, spreading through the Mediterranean Basin.
  • 1400

    Shriveling Population

    By the time it supposedly died down the European population had died down to half of what it was 100 years ago. The Black Death caused the depopulation or total disappearance of about 1,000 villages in that country alone. That does not include the other countries' effects of the Bubonic plague.
  • Period: 1400 to 1495

    Early Renaissance

    The Early Renaissance was when the renaissance just started to begin and people expressed themselves through different art literature, music, etc. The Early Renaissance, informed by Humanism and Classical Roman and Greek art and architecture.
  • 1434

    The Medici family

    The Medici family ruled the city of Florence for roughly 300 years. They progressively had a major influence over everyone they ruled. The Medici family were wool merchants and bankers, both businesses were very profitable and the family became extremely wealthy.
  • 1451

    Leonardo da Vinci and the Gutenberg Bible

    Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance. Leonardo is widely regarded to have been a genius who epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal, bringing new ideas to the table of a renaissance.
  • 1476

    The Age of Exploration

    This was a period when the European nations began exploring the world and finding discoveries about the world.
    New routes, exploring islands, and eventually leading to the world of trade.
  • Period: 1480 to 1527

    High Renaissance

    The High Renaissance. High Renaissance art, which flourished for about 35 years, from the early 1490s to 1527, when Rome was sacked by imperial troops, revolved around three towering figures.
  • 1483

    Virgin of the Rocks

    The Virgin of the Rocks sometimes the Madonna of the Rocks, is the name of two paintings by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, of the same subject, with a composition which is identical except for several significant details. The version generally considered the prime version, the earlier of the two, is unrestored and hangs in the Louvre in Paris.
  • 1509

    The School of Athens

    The School of Athens (Italian: Scuola di Atene) is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. The fresco was painted between 1509 and 1511 as a part of Raphael's commission to decorate the rooms now known as the Stanze di Raffaello, in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. It depicts a congregation of philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists from Ancient Greece, including Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Archimedes, and Heraclitus.