Whats Going Around at the Time of the Age of Exploration By Hello342 1095 Crusades begin 1300 Renaissance begins 1347 The Black Death 1440 The Printing Press was made by Johannes Gutenberg 1451 The Caravel was invented 1453 The fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman empire 1478 the Spanish Inquisition begins 1492 Crusades end 1503 Leonardo da vinci paints mona lisa 1512 Michelangelo paints Sistine Chapel 1517 Martin Luther posts his 95 theses 1527 The Renaissance ends 1534 The Church of England was founded 1536 William Tyndale burned at the stake 1558 Queen Elizabeth 1 becomes Queen of England 1596 William Shakespeare writes Romeo and Juliet 1633 Galileo Galilee put under house arrest for Heliocentric view of solar system