Renaissance Timeline Project

1350

Perpendicular architecture

Perpendicular style, Phase of late Gothic architecture in England.creating rich visual effects through decoration, was characterized by a predominance of vertical lines in stone window tracery, enlargement of windows to great proportions, and conversion of the interior stories into a single unified vertical expanse.

1350

1440

Gutenberg invents the printing press

Johann Gutenberg's invention of movable-type printing quickened the spread of knowledge, discoveries, and literacy in Renaissance Europe. The printing revolution also contributed mightily to the Protestant Reformation that split apart the Catholic Church.

1440

1492

Columbus lands in the Caribbean

Italian explorer Christopher Columbus made landfall in what is now the Bahamas. Columbus and his ships landed on an island that the native Lucayan people called Guanahani. Columbus renamed it San Salvador

1492

1521

The Fall of Tenochtitlan and the Aztecs

Tenochtitlan

The Spanish conquistadors, aided by an alliance of Indigenous peoples, laid siege to the Aztec capital for 93 days, until the Mexica surrendered on August 13, 1521. A great deal of Tenochtitlan was destroyed in the fighting, or was looted, burned, or destroyed after the surrender.

1521

1543

The beginning of the Scientific Revolution

Scientific Revolution is the name given to a period of drastic change in scientific thought that took place during the 16th and 17th centuries. It replaced the Greek view of nature that had dominated science for almost 2,000 years

1543

1590

Japan is unified

Oda Nobunaga, the powerful warlord of the Oda clan, set out to unify the nation in the 1560’s, overthrowing the weakened ruling shogun and conquering most of Japan’s largest island Honshu. When Oda was betrayed and died in 1582, his leading general Toyotomi Hideyoshi took his place, and with the Siege of Odawara in 1590 eliminating the Later Hōjō clan and the last of any serious threat to his power, Japan was again unified.

1590

1596

Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, is founded.

Sidney, founded in 1596, is the youngest of the old Cambridge Colleges, its site has been associated with education for seven and a half centuries.

1596

1620

The Mayflower brings the Pilgrims to North America

The Mayflower set sail from Southampton, England, for North America on August 15, 1620. The ship carried Pilgrims from England to Plymouth, in modern-day Massachusetts, where they established the first permanent European settlement in 1620

1620

1613

Russia's Time of Troubles ends

The Time of Troubles ended with the election of Michael Romanov as tsar by the Zemsky Sobor in 1613, establishing the Romanov dynasty, which ruled Russia until the February Revolution in 1917.

1613

1633

Galileo Proves the Earth Orbits the Sun

Galileo discovered evidence to support Copernicus' heliocentric theory when he observed four moons in orbit around Jupiter. Beginning on January 7, 1610, he mapped nightly the position of the 4 “Medicean stars” (later renamed the Galilean moons)

1633

1666

The Great Fire of London

In 1666, a devastating fire swept through London, destroying 13200 houses, 87 parish churches, The Royal Exchange, Guildhall and St. Paul's Cathedral.

1666

1692

Salem Witch Trials

in American history, a series of investigations and persecutions that caused 19 convicted “witches” to be hanged and many other suspects to be imprisoned in Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

1692

Sources

https://www.history.com/topics/renaissance/renaissance

https://historycolored.com/articles/8577/7-historical-events-that-took-place-in-the-13th-century/

https://www.britannica.com/event/Middle-Ages

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