renaissance, reformation, and exploration

renaissance reformation and exploration

Period: Jan 1, 1450 to Dec 31, 1600

1454 John Gutenberg prints the Gutenberg Bible.

Printing Press

Oct 2, 1450

Gutenberg invented this a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink. Typically used for texts, the invention of the printing press is widely regarded as one of the most influential events in the second millennium, ushering in the period of modernity printing press.

Turks

Oct 2, 1453

Fall of the Constantinople of the Turks.

Printing the Bible

Sep 30, 1454

John Gutenberg prints the Gutenberg Bible.

Columbus lands in the Americas

Aug 1, 1498

French ships in retaliation for French attacks on Portuguese shipping interests. Columbus, and most others, underestimated the world’s size, calculating that East Asia must lie approximately where North America sits on the globe (they did not yet know that the Pacific Ocean existed).

Corruption of the church

Oct 2, 1498

Excecution of Girolamo Savanarla for his critisisim of the corruption of the church.

Da Gama's voyage to india

May 2, 1499

By the time Vasco da Gama returned from his first voyage to India in 1499, he had spent more than two years away from home, including 300 days at sea, and had traveled some 24,000 miles. French ships in retaliation for French attacks on Portuguese shipping interests.

michelangelo's david statue

Sep 2, 1505

he was already the most famous and best paid artist in his days. He accepted the challenge with enthusiasm to sculpt a large scale David and worked constantly for over two years to create one of his most breathtaking masterpieces of gleaming white marble.

Da'vinci's Mona Lisa

Oct 2, 1517

The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world.

luthers 95 theses

Oct 2, 1517

Martin Luther publication is 95 theses at Witenberg, beginning of the protestant Reformation. The Ninety-Five Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences were written by Martin Luther in 1517 and are widely regarded as the initial catalyst for the Protestant Reformation. The disputation protests against clerical abuses, especially nepotism, simony, usury, pluralism, and the sale of indulgences.

cortes conquers the aztecs

Oct 2, 1521

declared victorious on August 13, 1521, when a coalition army of Spanish forces and native Tlaxcalan warriors led by Hernán Cortés and Xicotencatl the Younger captured the emperor Cuauhtemoc and Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire.

Excecution

Oct 2, 1535

Sir Thomas More excecuted by order of Henery VIII

council of trent

Oct 2, 1545

Church's most important ecumenical councils. Prompted by the Protestant Reformation, it has been described as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation.

Elizabeth

Oct 2, 1558

Beginning of the region of elizabeth.

Rules

Sep 30, 1564

Lorenzo de Meakl reules florence.

skakespear born

Oct 2, 1564

William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, actor and an Italophile, who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

Burned at Stake

Oct 2, 1600

Philosopher and astronomer Giordano Bruno burned at the stake by the Roman Inquisition.

Hamlet

Oct 2, 1600

William Shakespear Hamlet was made.

machiavelli writes the prince

Oct 2, 1810

In 1810, a letter by Machiavelli was discovered in which he reveals that he wrote The Prince in efforts to endear himself to the ruling Medici family in Florence. To liberate Italia from the influence of foreign governments, Machiavelli explains that strong indigenous governments are important, even if they are absolutist.