The Renaissance

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  • 1449

    Birth of Lorenzo de’ Medici

    Lorenzo de' Medici was an Italian statesman, de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic and the most powerful and enthusiastic patron of Renaissance culture in Italy.
  • 1455

    Gutenberg prints the first Bible

    he Gutenberg Bible was the first major book printed using mass-produced movable metal type in Europe.
  • 1501

    Michelangelo sculpts the David

    he was 16 meters (almost 17 feet, a shy short at 16 feet and 11.15 inches)
  • 1503

    Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa

    The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci 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".
  • 1517

    Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church

    On this day in 1517, the priest and scholar Martin Luther approaches the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, and nails a piece of paper to it containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation.
  • 1534

    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
  • 1535

    Thomas More writes Utopia

    was the first person to write of a 'utopia', a word used to describe a perfect imaginary world
  • 1543

    Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres

    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.
  • 1564

    William Shakespeare is born

    William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist.

  • Galileo invents a thermometer

    Although named after the 16th–17th-century physicist Galileo, the thermometer described in this article was not invented by him. Galileo did invent a thermometer, called Galileo's air thermometer