Renaissance Timeline

  • Period: Oct 18, 1451 to Oct 18, 1506

    Christopher Columbus

    He was an Explorer and a navigator.He made voyages across Atlantic and made history of European contact with America. This started, European colonization of foreign lands lasting few centuries. Spanish Colonization of south America and the islands of Caribbean .
  • Period: Oct 18, 1473 to Oct 18, 1543

    NicolausCopernicus

    He was an astronaut. He said that the earth rotates on its axis and it takes 24 hours to make 1 round, and it takes 365 days to complete one circle around the earth.
    We can calculate time of the day because of the discovery that Nicolaus Copernicus found. He proved that the earth is not flat surface but it is round like a ball and the reason for day and night and changing seasons because it turns on its axis and also goes around the sun.
  • Period: Oct 18, 1475 to Oct 18, 1564

    Michelangelo

    He was an Artist, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer 
    He was the greatest living artist in the renaissance period. A number of his artistic work, even today is ranked as famous in existent .Two of his best known works are
     Pietà and David and the "Last Judgement" on the Altar wall of the Sistine chapel .
  • Oct 18, 1512

    Lenonardo Da Vinici

    Lenonardo Da Vinici
    The study of a fetus in a womb.
    He made a sketch of a fetus in a womb.
    Doctor's can understand how the fetus is progressing in the womb.
  • Oct 18, 1533

    King Herny

    He was a king of Ireland. He spilt from the roman catholic church and formed the church of England . He spilt the roman catholic church. Christianity now has two different beliefs, that is roman Catholic's
    and the protestant.
    There are two different churches in all the cities and the Christians either go to roman catholic church or protestant church for Sunday prayers and other religious events.
  • Period: Oct 18, 1564 to

    William Shakespeare

    He was an English, Actor, writer, poet. He was the greatest English writer in the English language, who wrote many comedies, tragedies, poetries and his plays has been translated into many languages all around the world.
     Hamlet, King Lear,Othello, and Macbeth. These are some of the finest books in English language that he wrote.
  • Galileo- Galilei

    He was a professor of mathematician. He proved that the earth is not the center of the universe. Today we can see the solar system with the sun in the center of the universe and all the planets going around the sun.We could sent Space crafts to outer space based on his discoveries, and then we could further the investigation of our solar system.
  • Period: to

    Thirty Years

    These wars were generally religious conflicts between catholic and protestants and for balance of power within Europe. Destructions of the entire region and loss of lives, resulting in famines and diseases, there by entire population getting wiped out. Wars of 20th century like world war 1&2.
  • The Taj Mahal

    The taj mahal is a white marble mausoleum was built by a mogul emperor in the Indian city of agra in memory of his third wife.

    It is a grand piece of Persian architecture made in white marble

    The white doomed marble was constructed by thousands of labors show casing Persian architecture. It is considered as one of the seven wonders of the world.