West and the World By emileefarquhar Jan 1, 1347 Beginning of Bubonic Plague Jan 1, 1350 Beginning of Renaissance Jan 1, 1420 Brunelleschi Creates Linear Perspective Oct 2, 1428 Joan of Arc and the Siege of Orleans Jan 1, 1456 Johaan Gutenberg Invents Printing Press Aug 1, 1464 Death of Cosimo de Medici Jan 1, 1468 Sandro Botticelli Paints Birth of Venus Sep 27, 1478 Spanish Inquisition Begins Oct 11, 1492 Columbus Discovers the Americas 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 Oct 31, 1517 Martin Luter 95 Theses Jan 1, 1524 Start of the European Wars of Religion Aug 25, 1530 Ivan the Terrible is Born Jan 1, 1533 Henry VIII of England Excommunicated Aug 1, 1534 Jesuit Order Founded by Ignatius Loyola Jul 12, 1536 Death of Desiderius Erasmus Jan 1, 1550 Scientific Revolution/Copernicus Jan 1, 1557 Spain Delcares Bankruptcy for the 1st TIme Jan 15, 1559 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth I Aug 23, 1572 Saint Bartholomew's Massacre Jan 1, 1593 Da Vinci Paints The Last Supper Apr 13, 1598 Edict of Nantes
