The Renaissance

By cj.johnson
  • Gutenberg prints the first Bible
    1445

    Gutenberg prints the first Bible

    It started a culture for printing.
  • Birth of Lorenzo de’ Medici
    Jan 1, 1449

    Birth of Lorenzo de’ Medici

    Patron of the
  • Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres
    1473

    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.
  • Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
    1503

    Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa

    Portrait painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci that has been described as the best known and the most visited.
  • Michelangelo sculpts the David
    1504

    Michelangelo sculpts the David

    It was an import sculpture in the time of the renaissance.
  • Thomas More writes Utopia
    1516

    Thomas More writes Utopia

    He was an important humanist during the Renaissance.
  • 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

    Started the reformation.
  • 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.
  • William Shakespeare is born
    1564

    William Shakespeare is born

    He was one of the best writers ever.
  • Galileo invents a thermometer

    Galileo invents a thermometer

    Italian physicist Galileo Galilei, the thermometer described in this article was not invented by him. Galileo did invent a thermometer, called Galileo's air thermometer (more accurately termed a thermoscope), in or before 1603.