Renasissance

By adasia.thomas
  • Gutenberg prints the first Bible
    1445

    Gutenberg prints the first Bible

    Gutenberg produced what is considered to be the first book ever printed
  • Birth of Lorenzo de’ Medici
    Jan 1, 1449

    Birth of Lorenzo de’ Medici

    patrion of the art
  • Michelangelo sculpts the David
    1502

    Michelangelo sculpts the David

    Worked constantly for over two years to create one of his most breathtaking masterpieces of gleaming white marble.
  • Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
    1503

    Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa

    The Mona Lisa painting has been in the Louvre (since 1797).
  • Thomas More writes Utopia
    1516

    Thomas More writes Utopia

  • Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church
    Oct 31, 1517

    Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church

    “The 95 Theses,” a list of questions and propositions for debate.
  • King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican church
    1534

    King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican church

    Declared himself to be supreme head of the Church of England.
  • Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres
    1549

    Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres

    De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the revolutions of the heavenly spheres), written by Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) and published just before his death, placed the sun at the center of the universe and argued that the Earth moved across the heavens as one of the planets.
  • William Shakespeare is born
    1564

    William Shakespeare is born

  • Galileo invents a thermometer

    Galileo invents a thermometer

    Galileo did invent a thermometer, called Galileo's air thermometer