Brunelleschi's dome of Florence Cathedral
1420–1436 · Work
Massive ribbed dome engineered without external scaffolding; harbinger of the Renaissance.
On these timelines: Master, Arts and Thoughts, Renaissance, Italy (post-476 CE), Major Religions
Around 1420
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Wars of the Roses (1455)
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Peasants' Revolt in England (1381)
- Gutenberg's printing press (1440)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387)
- Mehmed II (1432)
- Reign of Mehmed II (1451)
- Gutenberg prints the 42-line Bible (1455)