The Renaissance

  • 1445

    Gutenberg prints the first Bible

    Gutenberg prints the first Bible
    The inventor of the printing press
  • Jan 1, 1449

    Birth of Lorenzo de Medici

    Birth of Lorenzo de Medici
    Patron of the arts
  • 1501

    Michelangelo sculpts the David

    Michelangelo sculpts the David
    Most famous and best and best paid artist
  • 1503

    Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa

    Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
    Oil painting on a popular wood panel by the Italian painter.
  • 1516

    Thomas More writes Utopia

    An English lawyer , social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist
  • 1517

    Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church

    Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church
    A list of questions and proposition for debate.
  • 1534

    King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican church

    Supreme head of the Church of England
  • 1543

    Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres

    Argued that the Earth moved across the heavens as one of the planets
  • Galileo invents a thermometer

    Galileo invents a thermometer
    Galileo invented air thermometer
  • William Shakespeare is born

    English poet