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Culture moved from the monasteries to the streets, there was greater freedom of thought and the first universities appeared. The invention of the printing press also favored the spread of new ideas. -
New ideologies appear that reject the meaning of the State and medieval power, such as Humanism, and a new social class is imposed, the bourgeoisie, which will be the one who promotes that ideology. -
In 1452, the artist, humanist, scientist and naturalist Leonardo da Vinci was born. In 1453, the Ottoman Empire conquered Constantinople, forcing many Greek thinkers and their works to move westward. Possibly one of the key events in the Renaissance, in 1454, Johannes Gutenberg published the Gutenberg Bible, using a new printing technology that would revolutionize European literacy.
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The emperor stayed to defend the city and on on the night before, 29 May, when Constantinople fell, the Emperor received Communion from Byzantine Catholic Cardinal Isidore of Kiev. Constantine died in battle on the following day. -
The discoveries made by European explorers led to a greater understanding of the American continents and the people who live on them.
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The myth tells that Saturn (Cronus), god of time, tears and throws the genitals of his father Caelos (Uranus), which fertilizes the sea. The friction of the foam gives birth to Venus who, with the help of the wind, is transported to the shores of the island of Cyprus in a seashell.
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In the first half of the 16th century, the Renaissance was impacting and impacted by political events throughout Europe. In 1503, Julius II was named pope, ushering in the Roman Golden Age. Henry VIII came to power in England in 1509 and Francis I succeeded to the French throne in 1515. Charles V took power in Spain in 1516, and in 1530, he became the Holy Roman Emperor, the last emperor to be crowned. In 1520, Süleyman "the Magnificent" took power in the Ottoman Empire.
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The Holy Roman emperor, Charles V, conquers Rome, ending the Renaissance as a unified period in Italy. -
Thanks to the personal efforts of Rheticus, the complete version of On the Revolutions of the Celestial Orbs appeared in Nuremberg, the great work in which Nicolaus Copernicus exposed his model of the cosmos: a closed universe with the sun in the center and the other stars rotating. around it. -
In 1556, Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia wrote "A General Treatise on Numbers and Measurements" and Georgius Agricola wrote "From Re Metallica", a catalog of mining and smelting processes. Michelangelo died in 1564. Isabella Whitney, the first English woman to write non-religious verse, published "The Copy of a Letter" in 1567. Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator published his "World Map" in 1569. Architect Andrea Palladio wrote " Four Books on Architecture" in 1570.