The Renaissance & Reformation (~1400-1600)
Selected Events (http://vschool.houstonisd.org/orientation/timeline.htm)
- 1434 - Cosimo de' Medici establishes rule in Florence
- 1454 - Gutenberg Bible - Printing Press
- 1483 - 1546 - Martin Luther
- 1492 - Columbus sails to new world
- 1495-1497 - Leonardo da Vinci paints The Last Supper
- 1501-1504 - Michelangelo sculpts statue of David
- 1503 - Leonardo da Vinci paints Mona Lisa
- 1508-1512 - Michelangelo paints ceiling of Sistine Chapel
- 1509- 1564 - John Calvin
- 1517 - Luther posts his 95 Theses in Wittenberg
- 1564 - 1616 Shakespeare
- 1564 – 1642 – Galileo Galilei
- 1584 - Sir Walter Raleigh founds first English colony in Virginia