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Jan 1, 1449
Lorenzo de’ Medici
he was a magnate, diplomat, politician and patron of scholars, artists and poets -
Mar 12, 1455
Gutenberg prints the first Bible
first printed Bible from a letter of 12 March 1455 -
Nov 1, 1478
Spanish Inquisition is introduced
It was intended to maintain Catholic orthodoxy in their kingdoms and to replace the Medieval Inquisition, which was under Papal control. -
Nov 4, 1492
Columbus discovers the new world
made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain: in 1492, 1493, 1498 and 1502. He was determined to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia -
Jul 27, 1497
Vasco da Gama sails to India
Atlantic Ocean when he arrives at Calicut on the Malabar Coast. Da Gama sailed from Lisbon, Portugal, in July 1497, rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and anchored at Malindi on the east coast of Africa. -
Sep 27, 1504
Michelangelo sculpts the David
It is a 5.17-metre (17.0 ft) [a] marble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the Biblical hero David, a favoured subject in the art of Florence. -
Dec 15, 1515
Thomas More writes Utopia
More's "Utopia" was written in Latin, and is in two parts, of which the second, describing the place ([Greek text]--or Nusquama, as he called it sometimes in his letters--"Nowhere"), was probably written towards the close of 1515; the first part, introductory, early in 1516. -
Aug 1, 1517
Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
The painting, thought to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, is in oil on a white Lombardy poplar panel, and is believed to have been painted between 1503 and 1506. Leonardo may have continued working on it as late as 1517 -
Oct 31, 1517
Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church
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 -
Nov 4, 1520
Rapheal paints the Transfiguration
Commissioned in 1517 by Cardinal Giulio de' Medici (1478-1534) (of the Florentine Medici Family -
Jan 21, 1532
Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince
Niccoló Machiavelli wrote The Prince in 1513, but it wasn't published until 1532, five years after his death. This portrait of the author, by Santi di Tito, hangs in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy -
Nov 6, 1543
Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) is the seminal work on the heliocentric theory of the Renaissance astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543). -
Aug 6, 1547
King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican church
Date: 1992. The early English Reformation created an Anglican Church even more ... VIII (1504-1547). ... Protestant ideas concerning theology and ritual did not much ... executed, as were other Catholic dissidents, including the king's former. -
Mar 20, 1550
John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion
The title page from the 1559 edition of John Calvin's Institutio Christianae ... Calvin wrote five major Latin editions in his lifetime (1536, 1539, 1543, 1550, and ... is said of divine will and predestination, and to the later scholastics for teaching ... -
Nov 3, 1558
Elizabeth I begins rule in England
Edward's will was set aside and Mary became queen, deposing Lady Jane Grey. ... In 1558, Elizabeth succeeded her half-sister to the throne and set out to rule ...... that in the last decade of her life she began to believe her own performance -
Apr 23, 1564
William Shakespeare is born
the great English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare is born in Stratford-on-Avon on April 23, 1564 -
Sir Walter Raleigh tries to establish Roanoke (present day North Carolina
North Carolina History Project : Roanoke Island. Roanoke Island. In 1584, 1585, and 1587, Sir Walter Raleigh funded expeditions to Roanoke Island (located on what is now called the Outer Banks). -
King Phillip II of Spain assembles the Spanish Armada
The Spanish Armada and English ships in August 1588, by unknown painter (English .... Philip II of Spain had been co-monarch of England until the death of his wife, -
Galileo invents a thermometer
4 Notes.
Origin and naming[edit] Although named after Italian physicist Galileo Galilei, the thermometer described in this article was not invented by him. Galileo did invent a thermometer, called Galileo's air thermometer (more accurately termed a thermoscope), in or before 1603
