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Nov 16, 1440
Invention of the printing press
Johannes Gutenberg was the first to invent the printing press, using blocks of letters that were made with speceal alloys. -
Period: Nov 16, 1440 to
northern renaissance
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Nov 17, 1460
Hans Holbein the elder born
He was born in Augsburg, Bavaria and died in Isenheim, Alsace. He and his brother Sigismund Holbein painted religious works in the late Gothic style. Hans the Elder was a pioneer and leader in the transformation of German art from the Gothic to the Renaissance style. -
Apr 6, 1483
Raphael born
he was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. -
Nov 17, 1494
Francois Rabelais born
He was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor, renaissance humanist ,a monk and Greek scholar. He has historically been regarded as a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, and bawdy jokes and songs. He wrote Gargantua and Pantagruel. -
Nov 17, 1500
Antwerp Mannerism
the name given to the style of a largely anonymous group of painters from Antwerp,the style bore no direct relation to Renaissance or Italian Mannerism, but the name suggests a peculiarity that was a reaction to the "classic" style of the earlier Flemish painters. -
Sep 1, 1524
Pierre de Ronasard born
He was a French poet and "prince of poets" (as his own generation in France called him). -
Nov 17, 1545
The counter reformation
The Catholic Church at the long running Council of Trent decides that the Reformation needs to be rolled back (or stopped from further expansion anyway) - two of the European instruments used in this were the Jesuits to teach, and an expanded Inquisition to root out and eliminate those who did not want to be taught! -
Feb 26, 1564
Christopher Marlowe born
He was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. As the foremost Elizabethan tragedian,[2] next to William Shakespeare, he is known for his blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his mysterious death. -
Apr 26, 1564
William Shakespeare is born
Born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, he was an english poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist -
The death of elizabeth 1
A series of deaths among her friends plunged her into a severe depression. In February 1603, the death of Catherine Howard, the niece of her cousin and close friend Catherine, came as a particular blow. In March, Elizabeth fell sick and remained in a "settled and unremovable melancholy". She died on 24 March 1603 at Richmond Palace.
