Renaissance Time Line Event (1300-1600)

  • Birth of Lorenzo de' Medici
    1449

    Birth of Lorenzo de' Medici

    he was born on January 1st, in Florence Italy
  • Gutenberg prints the first Bible
    1455

    Gutenberg prints the first Bible

    An inventor named Gutenberg produced what is considered to be the first book ever printed which was the Bible
  • Columbus discovers the new world
    1492

    Columbus discovers the new world

    Columbus led his three ships out of the Spanish port of Palos and he thought he founded new land
  • Michelangelo sculpts David
    1501

    Michelangelo sculpts David

    It is a 14 ft marble statue depicting the Biblical hero David, represented as a standing male nude.
  • Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
    1503

    Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa

    the woman in the Mona Lisa is actually a model named Lisa Gherardini
  • Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince
    1513

    Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince

    The Prince is a 16th-century political thesis
  • Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church
    1517

    Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church

    Martin Luther nails a piece of paper to it containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation.
  • Founding of the Society of Jesus by Ignatius of Loyola
    1534

    Founding of the Society of Jesus by Ignatius of Loyola

    It was a Jesuit movement that Ignatius founded. He took six of his students to take vows of poverty and chastity and made plans to work for the conversion of Muslims.
  • John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion
    1536

    John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion

    The Institutes of the Christian Religion was a seminal work of Protestant systematic theology.
  • Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres
    1543

    Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres

    the original title is De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. It is the seminal work on the heliocentric theory of Copernicus
  • William Shakespeare is born
    1564

    William Shakespeare is born

    He was born in April 1564 (no one actually knows the day he was born on), his birthplace was Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom
  • Galileo invents a thermometer

    Galileo invents a thermometer

    He called it Galileo's air thermometer. He found out that the density of liquids reacts predictably to changes in temperature.