Swerve

The Swerve

  • 476 BCE

    BOOK: Emperor Romulus Augustulus resigned

    He resigned quietly after the "Roman empire in the West finally collapsed."(Greenblatt 94)
  • 50 BCE

    BOOK: On the nature of thing was written

    It was written by poet and philosopher Titus Lucretius Carus it was also radical. (Greenblatt 49)
  • Sep 30, 1399

    REGION: Henry's reign

  • Jul 6, 1415

    BOOK: Jan Hus was executed

    He was imprisoned, he was also accused of being a Wycliffite. He was not allowed to defend himself or his belief
  • 1417

    BOOK: Pope John XXIII removed from the church

  • 1417

    BOOK: Poggio started book hunting

  • Nov 11, 1417

    REGION: Martin V was elected Pope

  • 1431

    WORLD: The Trial of Joan of Arc

  • 1440

    WORLD: 4. Gutenberg invents the printing press

  • 1447

    REGION: Nicholas V is elected pope

  • May 29, 1453

    WORLD: The Fall of Constantinople

  • 1455

    WORLD: The War of the Roses

  • 1458

    BOOK: Poggio resigned his chancellor position

  • Oct 30, 1459

    BOOK: Poggio's death

    The Florentine government weren't able to give Poggio a grand state funeral due to him resigning but was able give him an appropriate ceremony.
  • May 23, 1498

    BOOK: Girolamo (Jerome) Savonarola was executed

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  • 1508

    REGION:Michelangelo was commissioned to paint the Sistine Chapel

  • 1512

    REGION: Michelangelo finished the sistine chapel

  • REGION: Battle of Flodden Field September 9, 1513
    Sep 9, 1513

    REGION: Battle of Flodden Field September 9, 1513

  • 1521

    WORLD: The Fall of Tenochtitlan and the Aztecs

    Tlaxcallan and Spanish victory it ended in the fall of the Aztec Empire
  • 1527

    REGION: Sack of Rome

  • REGION: Mary is crowned Queen of England
    Oct 1, 1553

    REGION: Mary is crowned Queen of England

    She was the daughter of Catherine of Aragon who was the first woman to rule England as Queen in her own right. [1553-1558]
  • 1554

    REGION: Wyatt's Rebellion (1554)

    The rebellion was against Mary and Philip marriage and were favor sister Elizabeth
  • 1560

    BOOK: Poggio's statue was moved

    The statue that sat in front of Florence's Cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore that was a memory of Poggio. It was moved to a different part of the building with statues of of twelve apostles.
  • REGION: Lord Chancellor Thomas Wolsey dismissed 1592

  • BOOK: Galileo trialed to heresy