Renaissance Time Line
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Updated: 18 Jan 2019
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Created byElizabeth Price
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The Renaissance BeginsLeonardo Da Vinci bornJohannes Gutenberg invents printing pressPetrarch bornLeonardo Da Vinci paints Mona LisaMichelangelo finishes Sistine ChapelNiccolò Machiavelli wrote "The Prince"Galileo invented telescope discovered moons of JupiterDa Vinci paints last supperRaphael paints School of AthensJan Van Eyck paints Virgin with ChildLeonardo Da Vinci paints Vitruvian ManChristine de Pizan publishes “the book of the city of ladies”renaissance endsbeginning of EnlightenmentNew
eventMontesquieu writes ‘Spirit of Laws’Denis Diderot begins writing the encyclopediaSalons beganJohn Locke wrote “Essay Concerning Human Understanding”John Locke bornLocke composes ‘Two Treatises on Government’Montesquieu's ‘Persian Letters’ publishedVoltaire's ‘Letters Concerning the English Nation’ publishedRousseau's ‘Social Contract’ publishedMontesquieu writes ‘Spirit of Laws’Denis Diderot finishes writing Encyclopedia7 Years War begins7 years War endsAmerican Revolutionary War beginsAmerican Revolutionary War endsend of Enlightenment
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