Renaissance Timeline Project By cali Period: May 6, 1300 to May 6, 1600 Renaissance Jan 1, 1449 Birth of Lorenzo De' Medici May 6, 1480 Spanish Inquisition is introduced May 6, 1500 Sir Walter Raleigh tries to establish Roanoke May 6, 1501 Michaelangelo sculpts the David May 6, 1502 Vasco da Gama sails to India May 6, 1503 Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa May 6, 1516 Rapheal paints the Tranfiguration May 9, 1516 Thomas More writes Utopia May 6, 1517 Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of the castle church May 9, 1532 Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince May 6, 1535 Gutenberg prints the first bible May 9, 1536 John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion May 6, 1542 Columbus discovers the new world May 6, 1543 Nicolas Copernicus publishes ON the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres May 9, 1558 Elizabeth I begins rule in England Apr 23, 1564 William Shakespeare is born May 6, 1587 King Phillip II of Spain assembles the Spanish Armada May 6, 1593 Galileo invented the thermometer