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The Beginning of the Renaissance

May 3, 1300

The Renaissance was a cultural movement between the 1300s and the 1600s, and it was a time of change. In fact, the word Renaissance means 'rebirth'. The Renaissance began in Italy, but later on moved throughout Europe. Prior to the Renaissance was the Dark Ages, or Medieval Times. Anyway, during the Renaissance, changes erupted in the departments of art, learning, and many others. All in all, the Renaissance was the time period when people began to think for themselves.

Oh No! The Black Death Has Come

Dec 10, 1347

The horrid Bubonic Plague, or Black Death as most called it, was an illness that swept through Europe from about 1347 to 1351. It killed off 40-60% of Europe's population at the time. I will refrain from explaining the symptoms of the disease in case you don't enjoy reading about that sort of stuff. Though the Black Death was atrocious, in the end it helped in ways such as lessening the population and getting rid of problems with that.

Filippo Brunelleschi

Oct 4, 1377

Filippo Brunelleschi is considered to be one of the Renaissance's Founding Fathers. He was an architect, engineer,and a construction supervisor. Some of the buildings he helped create are the Florence Cathedral and the Pazzi Chapel.

Donatello

Feb 21, 1386

Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi, or Donatello, was a Renaissance sculptor. He was alive from 1386 to 1466, and he lived in Florence. Donatello apprenticed quickly with well-known sculptors, and soon became one of the best.

Humanism

Dec 3, 1400

Humanism is a way of thinking that brought importance to individual humans and not divine beings or the church. Humanism began in the 1400s and ended in the 1650s. It is a very important part of the Renaissance.

Gutenberg Creates the Printing Press

Jun 11, 1440

Take a moment in silence to appreciate what Gutenberg has done for us. Without his genius idea we would have to hand print everything. Books, magazines, they wouldn't be as popular, and their wouldn't be as many. The printing press relied on moving metal type, which would be cast in dye and arranged to form words. It was a much faster way to print.

Lorenzo de Medici

May 14, 1449

Lorenzo de Medici, or Lorenzo the Magnificent, was a Florentine statesman. He was the most famous Medici of them all. He ruled Florence from 1478 to 1492.

Erasmus

Dec 3, 1466

Desiderius Erasmus was a lot of things, including a scholar. He lived from 1466 to 1536. He was a Dutch Humanist.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Aug 8, 1473

Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish Renaissance astronomer and mathematician. He proposed that the planets have the Sun as the fixed point that they rotate around, and that Earth wasn't the center of our Solar System. He lived from 1473 to 1543.

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino

Dec 3, 1483

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, or just Raphael was an architect and an Italian painter from the Renaissance. He was born on April 6, 1483, in Urbino, Italy. Urbino, at the time, was a place that encouraged the arts. At 11 his father died, leading him to run his father's workshop. He soon succeed in this task and soon became one of the finest painters in the city.

Botticelli Completes The Birth of Venus

May 16, 1486

Sandro Botticelli created this work of art from 1482-1486. The main person on the painting is Venus, goddess of love.

Titian

Dec 11, 1489

Tiziano Vecellio, or Titian, was one of the leading artists of the Renaissance. Born at some time from 1488-1490, this man became an artist's apprentice in his teenage years. Soon he rose up and began painting for royalty like Pope Paul III and Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor.

Henry VIII

Apr 21, 1491

Henry VIII was king of England for 36 years, and he was alive from 1491 to 1547. He is one of the most famous kings and is most known for his many wives. He played a crucial role in the reformation.

Da Vinci Finishes The Last Supper

Jun 16, 1498

Leonardo Da Vinci painted The Last Supper, and it was made from 1495 to 1498. This priceless masterpiece depicts a well known scene from the Bible. It is a mural at the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy.

Da Vinci Finishes the Mona Lisa

Dec 3, 1503

This world-famous painting was made from 1503 to 1519. Who "Mona Lisa" is, we're not quite sure. However, her mysterious smile and a few other intriguing things have brought this painting to fame.

Michelangelo Paints the Sistine Chapel

Dec 3, 1512

The Sistine Chapel was made starting in 1508 and ending in 1512. It is one of the most well-known painted rooms in history. The chapel was built in 1479 and was named Sistine after the Pope, Pope Sixtus IV.

Martin Luther and The 95 Theses

Oct 31, 1517

Martin Luther created the 95 Theses because he wasn't content with quite a few practices of the Roman Catholic Church. Then he made a bold move and nailed the paper up to the Wittenberg Church for all to see. With a bit more provoking and actions he helped start the Protestant Reformation.

The Reformation

Dec 3, 1517

The Reformation was a religious act in the 1500s. It took place at the Western church. Some of its well known leaders were Martin Luther and then John Calvin. The Reformation helped spark the idea for Protestantism.

Giordano Bruno, or Filippo Bruno

May 15, 1548

Filippo Bruno was a philosopher, poet,mathematician, and astrologer. He is well known for his theories of space, like his theories of the infinite universe and the multiplicity of worlds. He died in 1600 by being burned at the stake.

Galileo Galilei

Mar 22, 1564

Galileo Galilei was many things: physicist, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer, and an engineer. He was born in 1564 in Pisa, Italy, and died in 1642. Galileo created the amazing invention of the telescope, and used it to study the Moon, Jupiter, and Saturn. He also helped strengthen the belief in Copernicus' theory that Earth and all the other planets revolve around the Sun.