Renaissance Timeline

1401
Ghiberti wins the competition for the Florence Baptistry doors

1402-1403
Richard III campaigns in Scotland and Wales 

1410
Battle of Grunwald: took place between the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and their allies on one side, and the Knights of the Teutonic Order on the other. 

1415
Henry V wins great victory over French at Agincourt.

1417-1436
Brunellischi creates the dome of Florence Cathedral

1429
Joan of Arc leads French to break English siege of Orleans. 

1435
The Medici family dynasty begins in France

1450
Alberts begins his treatise on architecture

1455
First printed book, the Gutenberg Bible is published

1455
Wars of the Roses

1465
Giovanni Bellini and Mantegna both paint versions of “The Agony in the Garden”

1470-1480
Oil painting reached Italy

1479-1488
Verrocchio’s equestrian statue of Colleoni

1480
Botticelli’s “Primavera”

1494
Charles VIII of France invades Italy

1498
Erasmus visits England

1497-1500
Michelangelo’s “Pieta”

1500
Giorgione’s “Tempesta”

1504-1505
Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa”

1505-1507
Durer in Venice

1512
Raphael’s “Sistine Madonna”

1513
Machiavelli begins “The Prince”

1516
Leonardo da Vinci goes to France

1517
Luther begins the Protestant Reformation

1525
Battle of Pavia

1533
Titian is appointed court painter to Emperor Charles V

1563
Final session of Council of Trent

1564
Death of Michelangelo