The Renaissnce

  • Gutenberg prints the first Bible
    1445

    Gutenberg prints the first Bible

    the first major book printed using mass-produced movable metal type in Europe.
  • Birth of Lorenzo de'Medic
    1449

    Birth of Lorenzo de'Medic

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

    Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres

    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

    Popular portrait of Lisa Gherardini
  • Michelangelo sculpts the David
    1504

    Michelangelo sculpts the David

    one of a series of large statues to be positioned in the niches of the cathedral’s tribunes
  • Thomas More writes Utopia
    1516

    Thomas More writes Utopia

    indirectly criticizing Europe's political corruption and religious hypocrisy
  • Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church
    1517

    Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church

    95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant 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

    Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom
  • Galileo invents a thermometer

    Galileo invents a thermometer

    a sealed glass cylinder containing a clear liquid and several glass vessels of varying mass