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  • Renaissance!
    Dec 8, 1350

    Renaissance!

    Renaissance means "rebirth" in French. They chose that word because of all the changes happening in the 14th and 16th centuries.
  • Times The Renaissance Was
    Dec 8, 1350

    Times The Renaissance Was

    The Renaissance occurred from the early 14th century to the late 16th century.
  • The Renaissance Was a Time of Art
    Dec 8, 1350

    The Renaissance Was a Time of Art

    Artists like Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo created greats works of art during this time. Writers like William Shakespeare were producing their own masterpieces too.
  • New Ideas
    Dec 8, 1360

    New Ideas

    There were changes and thinking during Renaissance. New ideas in art, science, astronomy, religion, literature, mathematics, philosophy, and politics were developed and advanced in 1360's.
  • Some weird Facts
    Dec 11, 1360

    Some weird Facts

    No real date on this one.
    Women were told not to play wind instruments because it made your face look unattractive. Instead, women were encouraged to play stringed instruments like the lute.
    Men usually didn’t get married until they were 30. Before then they were not considered to be grown up enough for marriage.
    Women, on the other hand, were expected to be married by 16 or 17 years old.
  • More Weird Facts
    Dec 11, 1360

    More Weird Facts

    If you look at Renaissance portraits, a lot of women’s hairstyles have hair covering their ears. Why? There was an old myth that the Virgin Mary got pregnant through her ear when she heard the word of God. Um yeah that's a bit weird right.
  • Lorenzo de Medici 1449 - 1492
    Dec 8, 1449

    Lorenzo de Medici 1449 - 1492

    Lorenzo de Medici (1449 - 1492) Also known as Lorenzo the Magnificent, Lorenzo de Medici ruled Florence through much of the peak of the Italian Renaissance.
  • Johannes Gutenberg completes the printing press
    Dec 8, 1450

    Johannes Gutenberg completes the printing press

    Gutenberg took some existing technologies and some of his own inventions to come up with the printing press in the year 1450. This may not sound like a big deal at first, but the printing press is often known as, "The most important invention in modern times." (stole the last this phrase a website sorry)
  • FAMOUS!!!
    Dec 11, 1460

    FAMOUS!!!

    Italy was considered to be the center of world culture during that time with many cities like Florence, Rome, Venice, Milan and Verona being powerhouses in areas of trade, commerce and finance.
  • Erasmus
    Dec 8, 1466

    Erasmus

    Erasmus was a scholar who wrote "Pure Latin style." Using humanist techniques for working on text, he made an imported new Latin and Greek editions of the new Testament. Born 28 of October, 1466 and died 12 of July, 1536.
  • Michelangelo begins painting the ceiling of the Sistine chaple
    Dec 8, 1477

    Michelangelo begins painting the ceiling of the Sistine chaple

    the large papal chapel built within the Vatican between 1477 and 1480 by Pope Sixths IV, for whom the chapel is named. It was painted at the commission of Pope Julius II. The chapel is the location for papal conclaves and many important services.
  • Botticelli completes The Birth Of Venus
    Dec 8, 1480

    Botticelli completes The Birth Of Venus

    The Birth of Venus is a painting by Sandro Botticelli generally thought to have been painted in the mid 1480s. The painting is on display at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.
  • Rafael the Painter
    Dec 8, 1483

    Rafael the Painter

    Raphael was a productive Italian man, running an weird large workshop and, beside his death at 37, leave a lot of work for the other people that worked for him. Raphael, was an painter and architect of the Renaissance. he was born April 6 or March 28, 1483.
  • Henry the 8th Becomes the King of England
    Dec 8, 1491

    Henry the 8th Becomes the King of England

    Henry VIII is one of the most famous Kings in England. Born 28 June 1491 and died 28 January 1547. He is well known to have six wife's and lost of kids. Henry VIII is one of the most famous kings in English history. He was the second Tudor monarch. He also broke a the papacy in Rome established the Church of England and began the Reformation.
  • Da Vinci Paints The Last Supper
    Dec 8, 1495

    Da Vinci Paints The Last Supper

    The Last Supper, by Leonardo da Vinci, is one of the most famous pieces of art in the world. It is on the wall of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy. It took 1495 years to 1498 years
  • Da vinci paints the Mona Lisa
    Dec 8, 1503

    Da vinci paints the Mona Lisa

    It was painted sometime between 1503 and 1519, when Leonardo was living in Florence, and it now hangs in the Louvre, in Paris.
  • Martin Luther Posts His 95 Theses On The Door Of The Church Of Gutenberg
    Dec 8, 1517

    Martin Luther Posts His 95 Theses On The Door Of The Church Of Gutenberg

    The year 1517, the priest and scholar Martin Luther walks to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, with nails an pieces of paper in his hand containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would began the Reformation
  • The Reformation
    Dec 8, 1517

    The Reformation

    The Reformation started in 1517 and ended in 1521. Martin Luther sent his 95 Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences to the Archbishop of Mainz. A lot of famous and non famous people joined in on this.
  • Ground Bracking

    Ground Bracking

    The Renaissance was a period of ground-breaking explorations, with the discovery of new lands outside Europe by famous explorers, such as Christopher Columbus and Vespucci.
  • Renaissance Humanism

    Renaissance Humanism

    The term Renaissance humanism is new to that period the Renaissance, also Renaissance humanism to distinguish it from later growth and developments for Humanism. 1827–91