Renaissance
Explore Renaissance on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Michelangelo (1475)
- Gutenberg's printing press (1440)
- Sistine Chapel ceiling (1508)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- Renaissance (1400)
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- Niccolò Machiavelli (1469)
- The Last Supper (1495)
- Lorenzo de' Medici (1449)
- Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466)
- Galileo Galilei (1564)
- Petrarch (1304)
- Michelangelo's David (1501)
- Scientific Revolution (1543)
- Defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588)
- Spanish conquest of the Aztecs (1519)
- Sack of Rome (1527) (1527)
- Gutenberg prints the 42-line Bible (1455)
- Brunelleschi's dome of Florence Cathedral (1420)
- English Reformation begins (1534)
- Galileo's telescope and Sidereus Nuncius (1610)
- English Reformation (1533)
- Machiavelli's The Prince (1513)
- Charles V (Holy Roman Emperor) (1500)
- Raphael (1483)
- Botticelli's Birth of Venus (1485)
- Council of Trent (1545)
- Council of Trent begins (1545)