Renaissance timeline

Renaissance begins in Italy

1300

Renaissance

Period: 1300 to 1700

First Great Humanist

1341

Petrarch was an Italian scholar and poet in Renaissance Italy. He is known for discovering and translating Greek and Roman. Petrarch was a Christian and believed that people could be religious and still be a humanist.

The Black Plague

1347

The disease is estimated to have killed 75-200 million people in Europe and it was very infectious. The disease had puss and blood oozing from black sores in peoples arm pits or groins, there was lots of internal bleeding and the smell of a persons breath and excrements was horrid. The plague created social, economic and religious upheavals that had effects on European history.

Death Of Petrarch

1374

Petrarch was born in 1304 and died in 1374. He was named the father of Humanism.

The Medici Family

1434

The Medici Family becomes the head of the city state of Florence. With there rickest supported many famous renaissance sculptors, painters and architects.

Guttenberg

1440

Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press. The printing press was an invention that changed the world. The first European book ever printed was the Guttenberg bible and it helped spread new renaissance ideas.

Birth of Leonardo Da Vinci

1452

Ottoman Empire

1453

The Ottoman Empire captured the city of Constantinople, bringing an end to the Byzantine Empire.

Gutenberg bible

1455

The Gutenberg bible was printed in Mainz and was the first book ever written with the moveable type.

Lorenzo de Medici

1469

Lorenzo de Medici became the ruler of Florence. He was a Italian statesmen who was the most powerful and enthusiastic person of the renaissance. He was named Lorenzo the Magnificent and was the greatest of the Medicis.

Botticelli

1486

Botticelli completed the painting The Birth of Venus. The painting shows the birth of the goddess Venus arriving on a shore after her birth full grown.

Death Of Lorenzo de Medici

1492

Lorenzo de Medici died on April 8, 1492.

Last Supper

1495

Leonardo Da Vinci painted the mural The Last Supper. The Last Supper is one of the most recognized paintings in history.

Sculpture Of David

1501

Michelangelo began work on the sculpture of David. David is a renaissance sculpture created by Michelangelo. It is a 17 foot tall statue.

Mona Lisa

1503

Leonardo Da Vinci paint the Mona Lisa it is the best known work of art in the word and the most valuable painting in the world.

Michelangelo

1508

Michelangelo begins work on the sistine Chapel. Michelangelo began painting the whole ceiling of the sistine chapel and It took him 5 years to finish. The sistine chapel is the residence of the pope in Vatican City.

Martin Luther

1517

Martin Luther publishes his "95 theses", starting the Protestant Reformation. The 95 Theses is a list of questions and propositions for debate and Martin Luther nailed a copy of this to the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church.

Death of Leonardo da Vinci

1519

The Last Judgement

1541

Michelangelo completes the painting "The Last Judgement". The painting covers the whole alter wall of the sistine Chapel.

Copernicus

1543

Nicholas Copernicus proposes that the earth rotates around the sun. This changed Europe's concept of the universe and was foundation for modern astronomy.

Death of Martin Luther

1546

When he died of natural causes, his beliefs had formed the basis for the Protestant Reformation.

Death of Henry VIII

1547

Death of Michelangelo

1564