// TITLE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION CHRONOLOGY // AUTHOR ?? // SOURCE DATE 2001?? // SOURCE MIDEVIL HISTORY DEPARTMENT AT RHODES // http://orb.rhodes.edu/schriber/chronology.html // Discovery and Prep October 22, 2002 (CUT, PASTE, FIND, DELETE, ENTER) // UW CSE 143 STUDENT 1305 Giotto paints the first realistic frescoes in Padua 1324 Marsilius of Padua writes Defensor Pacis 1341 Petrarch crowned poet laureate at Rome 1346 Battle of Crecy 1356 Battle of Poitiers 1378 Ciompi Revolt in Florence 1381 Peasants' Revolt in England 1397 Founding of the Medici Bank 1399 Henry of Lancaster (Henry IV) seizes English throne 1406 Florence conquers Pisa. 1409 Council of Pisa 1415 Battle of Agincourt 1417 "Great Schism" ends 1419 Brunelleschi designs Foundling Hospital in Florence 1420 Portuguese reach the Madeira Islands. 1420 Brunellischi designs dome of Florence Cathedral 1425 Thomas a Kempis writes Imitation of Christ 1427 Portuguese reach the Azores. 1429 Joan of Arc leads French to break English siege of Orleans. 1429 Charles VII crowned king of France. 1431 Joan of Arc burned at the stake 1434 Cosimo de' Medici establishes rule in Florence 1435 Donatello's David is completed 1438 Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges 1440 Platonic Academy founded in Florence 1440 Johann Gutenberg invents printing from movable type 1449 Birth of Lorenzo de' Medici. 1450 Mercenary leader, Francesco Sforza, seizes power in Milan. 1453 Constantinople falls to the Turks 1455 Gutenberg Bible printed 1469 Marsilio Ficino publishes Theologia Platonica 1476 William Caxton sets up printing press at Westminster 1478 Spanish Inquisition persecutes Jews, Muslims, and heretics. 1480 Lodovico Sforza seizes power in Milan. 1482 First great Renaissance villa is built for Pope Leo X 1483 Martin Luther born. 1484 Bull condemns withcraft. Inquisitors sent to Germany 1485 Battle of Bosworth Field 1485 Botticelli paints The Birth of Venus 1487 Bartholomew Diaz sails around Cape of Good Hope- 1492 Christopher Columbus reaches the West Indies. 1494 Treaty of Tordesilla. 1494 At Sforza's invitation, Charles VIII of France invades Italy. 1495 French capture Naples 1496 Santo Domingo founded 1497 John Cabot discovers Newfoundland . 1498 Vasco da Gama reaches India 1499 Louis XII of France seizes Milan. 1503 Leonardo da Vinci paints Mona Lisa 1517 Raphel paints The Transfiguration 1517 Luther posts his 95 Theses in Wittenberg. 1519 Charles of Spain becomes Emperor Charles V. 1521 Diet of Worms. Luther refuses to back down. 1521 Suleiman II, the Magnificent, takes Belgrade 1527 Imperial troops sack Rome. 1529 The Turks besiege Vienna 1534 Henry VIII of England breaks with Roman Catholic Church. 1535 Jacques Cartier sails up the St. Lawrence River. 1538 Titian paints Venus of Urbino 1540 St. Ignatius Loyola founds the Society of Jesus 1540 Hernando de Soto discovers the Mississippi River. 1543 Copernicus publishes heliocentric theory 1541 John Calvin founds "City of God" in Geneva. 1545 Council of Trent begins. Aims to reform Catholic Church. 1555 Peace of Ausgburg. 1556 Charles V of Spain abdicates. 1556 Son, Phillip II, rules Spain; brother, Ferdinand I, is Emperor. 1559 Peace of Cateau-Cambresis ends Franco-Spanish war. 1564 William Shakespeare born 1571 Italian painter, Caravaggio born in Milan 1584 Sir Walter Raleigh founds first English colony in Virginia. 1587 Mary, Queen of Scots executed. 1588 Spanish Armada defeated by England. 1592 Galileo invents the thermometer 1599 Spanish painter Diego Velazquez born in Seville 1599 Original Globe Playhouse built 1600 First performance of Hamlet at the Globe. 1607 John Smith founds colony of Virginia at Jamestown. 1608 French colony of Quebec founded. 1609 Henry Hudson sails up Hudson River. 1609 Johann Kepler suggests explanation of planetary movement 1613 The Globe burns down 1616 Shakespeare dies. 1620 Pilgrim Fathers sail from England in the Mayflower 1625 Dutch found New Amsterdam (later New York). 1628 William Harvey publishes his work on the circulation of blood 1633 Galileo is taken before the Inquisition in Rome 1640 Dutch painter Rubens dies 1642 The Globe is closed by The Puritans 1648 Peace of Wetphalia ends war in Germany.