renasiance

By jmasin
  • Jun 24, 1400

    Gutenberg prints the first Bible

    inventer of the movable type printing pres
  • Jan 1, 1449

    Birth of Lorenzo de’ Medici

    Florentine statesman, ruler, and patron of arts and letters
  • May 2, 1452

    Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa

    that has been described as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world"
  • Feb 19, 1473

    Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres

    written by Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) and published just before his death,
  • Mar 6, 1475

    Michelangelo sculpts the David

    This astonishing Renaissance sculpture was created between 1501 and 1504.
  • Feb 7, 1478

    Thomas More writes Utopia

    Sir Thomas More, venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist
  • Nov 10, 1483

    Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church

    Martin Luther posts his 95 theses. On this day in 1517,
  • Jun 28, 1491

    King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican church

    nder King Henry VIII in the 16th century, the Church of England broke with Rome, largely because Pope Clement VII refused to grant Henry an annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon
  • Feb 15, 1564

    Galileo invents a thermometer

    Galileo did invent a thermometer, called Galileo's air thermometer
  • Apr 23, 1564

    William Shakespeare is born

    Shakespeare also died on 23 April; in 1616, when he was 52 years of age.