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Italian humanist and poet;referred to as the father of the Renaissance dies
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Wealthy Italian banker establishes the Medici Bank in Florence, who's wealthy family goes on the fiance a century's worth of artists and projects
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Term means "rebirth" of ancient Greece and Rome
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Inventor of the printing press
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Columbus reaches the Bahamas for Spain
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Leonardo da Vinci was commissioned by Ludovico Sforza—the Duke of Milan and a longtime patron of the artist—to paint a 15 by 29-foot mural for the Dominican convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan as a part of a renovation project.
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Completes ceiling fresco of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City
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Completes his book, The Prince, that argues in favor of a strong monarchy government system
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Martin Luther challenges the Catholic Church by nailing 95 Theses, initiating the Protestant Reformation
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First to circumnavigate the world. Trip financed by King of Spain who was only 18 years old at the time of Magellan's exploration.
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One of the most important contributions of Copernicus was to the field of astronomy. Copernicus placed the sun at the center of the universe, rather than the earth.
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Flemish physician and anatomist who wrote the book “De Humani Corporis Fabrica” on human anatomy. He dissected corpses and examined them, after which he detailed human anatomy.
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Prompted by the Reformation, the Council of Trent was highly important for its sweeping decrees on self-reform and for its dogmatic definitions that clarified virtually every doctrine contested by the Protestants.
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First modern Atlas is completed
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Italy became a battleground for the first time in centuries.[This was to have a negative impact on the Renaissance. In 1527, the Spanish army sacked Rome and caused widespread loss of life and devastation.
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Responsible for creating Kepler’s laws of planetary motion. These laws include that the orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the Sun at one of the two foci, that a line joining a planet and the Sun sweeps out equal areas during equal intervals of time, and that the square of the orbital period of a planet is directly proportional to the cube of a semi-major axis of its orbit.
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First doctor to ever describe properly how the human circulatory system properly worked. He also described the blood properties and how the heart worked to circulate the blood around the body.
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Reported his discoveries of four of Jupiter’s moons, the roughness of the Moon’s surface, stars invisible to the naked eye, and differences between the appearances of planets and fixed stars, observations on the full set of phases of Venus, and wrote regarding the tides.
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Painting illustrating the new Renaissance painting technique called chiaroscuro, use of the strong contrast of light and dark
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The first English handbook on midwives written by a woman
