West And The World By Jay484 Jan 1, 1347 Bubonic Plauge Begins Jan 1, 1350 Renassiance Begins Jan 1, 1420 Brunelleschi creates Leanear Perspective Jan 1, 1428 Siege of Orleans Jan 1, 1450 Invention of the printing press Aug 1, 1464 Cosimo de Medici Dies Sep 27, 1480 Spanish Inquusution Begins Jan 1, 1486 Sandro Botticelli paints Birth of Venus Oct 12, 1492 Columbus Discovers the America's Jan 1, 1498 da Vinci paints The Last Supper Jan 1, 1508 Michelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel Jan 1, 1510 Raphael paints the school of Athens Jan 1, 1513 Machiavelli Writes the Prince Jan 1, 1516 Thomas More Utopia Jan 1, 1517 Martin Luther 95 Theses Aug 25, 1530 Ivan The Terrible is born Aug 15, 1534 Jesuit order founded Jul 12, 1536 Desiderius Erasmus Dies Dec 17, 1538 Henry VIII of England Excommunicated Jan 1, 1550 Scientific Revolution/ Copernicus Jan 1, 1557 Spain Declares bankruptcy for the first time Jan 15, 1559 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth Jan 1, 1562 Start of the European war of Religion Aug 23, 1572 Saint Bartholomew's Massacre Apr 13, 1598 Edict of Nantes