Events
Christianity Made Official Religion Of The Roman EmpireA Modest Proposal
1729:
A satirical work by Jonathan Swift highlighting the injustices inflicted upon Ireland by the British Empire.Periods
Berlinghiero Berlinghieri
1175-1236:
A famous Italian
artist during the Middle Ages renowned
for his iconsitic works of art.Jan van Eyck
1389-1441:
A renowned artist
from Netherlands who nearly perfected
the practice of oil painting.Socrates:
469BC - 399BC:
An Ancient Greek philosopher,
often remembered as the
father of modern thought.Julius Caesar
11-44BC:
A renowned Roman general
and politician whose actions
led to the fall of the Roman Empire.Ambrose of Milan
339-397:
Introduced antiphonal
psalmody and hymns to monks.Tertullian
155-225:
A famous Christian
author from Carthage,
also one of the first apologeticists.Aristotle:
184BC - 322BC:
A Greek philosopher nicknamed
"the father of western philosophy."Thomas Aquinas
1225-1274
An Italian friar,
priest, philosopher, and powerful theologian.Charlemagne
742-814:
Also known as
Charles the Great, Charlemagne
was a king of the Franks from
768 until his death, and united
much of western and central Europe.John Wycliffe
1320-1384:
An important figure
in the development of the Protestant
faith as well as a professor at the
University of Oxford.Saint Francis
1182-1226:
An Italian Catholic friar,
deacon and preacher.
Founder of the men's Order of Friars Minor,
the women's Order of Saint Clare, and the
Third Order of Saint Francis.Albrecht Dürer
1471–1528:
A renowned artisan known for his versatility.
He worked in painting, woodcutting, and drafting.Michelangeo
1483-1520:
Italian sculptor, painter, and architect who is famous for carving “David."Rembrant Harmenszoon van Rijn
1606-1669:
A famous Dutch artist known for his exceptional, uncompromising realism.Leonardo da Vinci
1452-1519:
An Italian polymath who furthered a variety of fields such as art, architecture, science, and mathematics.Plato
428-347 B.C.:
Founder of the Platonist school of thought.Martin Luther
1483-1546:
A German seminal figure best known for his list of Ninety-five Theses.Handel
1685-1759:
A Baroque composer known for his operas and concertos.Bach
1685-1750:
A German composer with influence equal to that of Handel.Alexandre Vinet
1797-1847:
A professor of theology who stood among the stream of Reformers.John Locke
1632-1704:
One of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers. He secularized Presbyterian tradition.Jerome
347-419:
A priest, theologian, and historian.Augustine of Hippo
354-430:
A theologian and philosopher whose publications influenced the development of western philosophy.Johannes Vermeer
1632 - 1675:
Often known as Durer's rival, who specialized in still life and scenes from every day activities.Thomas Cole
1801-1848:
An American landscape painter who captured the theme of the western expansion.Winslow Homer
1836-1910:
A western expansionist artist who focused on maritime subjects.Charles Wilson Peale
1741-1827:
An American artist best known for his remarkable portraits of key American figures during the American Revolution.Winston Churchill
1874-1965:
The prime minister of the UK from 1940-1945 and 1951-1955, who led the UK to victory during WWII.Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
1918-2008:
A Russian historian who criticized Stalin and various political ideaologies.Eric Hoffer
1902-1983:
An American political philosopher who commented on the idea of an authoritarian elite within the government.Francis Crick
1916-2004:
A biophysicist who strongly advocated for the government to implement and control genetic engineering within society.Claude Debussy
1862-1918:
A French musical composer that opened the door to the fragmentative style of music.Jackson Pollock
1912-1956:
An American painter and prominent driving force in the abstract expressionist movement.Friedrich Nietzsche
1844-1900:
A German philosopher who attempted to undermine the Western ways of life and morality. He would eventually go insane and die after realizing that without God, there is only chaos.Søren Kierkegaard
1813-1855:
A Danish philosopher who had a major impact on existentialism and humanistic ways of thought.Louis Pasteur
1822-1895:
A French chemist who demonstrated the impossibility of the spontaneous generation of life.Paul Gaugin
1848-1903:
A French painter and follower of Rousseau who found the idea of "the noble savage" to be an illusion.David Hume
1711-1776:
A philosopher who questioned the cause-and-effect concept and would have a strong influence on German and British philosophy.Rene Descartes
1596-1650:
A French mathematician, scientist, and philosopher who abandoned scholastic Aristotelianism in favor for mind-body dualism.Omar Khayyam
1048-1122:
An Arabic scholar who calculated the length of the solar year and pushed the limits of algebra further than ever before, opening the door to the development of modern science.Karl Barth
1886-1968:
The man whose first commentary ushered theological existentialism into philosophy.Martin Heidegger
1889-1976:
A German philosopher who tried to apply existentialism to the area of non-reason in philosophy.Jean-Paul Sartre
1905-1980:
A well-known existentialist who believed that everything is absurd unless authenticated by an act of will.Bertrand Russel
1872-1970:
A British philosopher crucial in the development of the analytic movement in Anglo-American philosophy.George Wald
1906-1997:
An American biochemist who attempted to explain through biochemistry how man was a product of chance.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
1770-1831:
A German philosopher who emphasized the centrality of state.Immanuel Kant
1724-1804:
A German philosopher who helped influence the modern philosophical view of idealsim.Marquis de Sade
1740-1814:
A French nobleman whose deification of nature gave rise to "sadism" and further illustrated why nature should not be used a moral standard.Jacob Bronowski
1908-1974:
A Polish mathematician who argued that we should not focus on discovering the past and the origin of man, but instead pursue autonomy and the future.Charles Darwin
1809-1882:
An English naturalist who founded the scientific theory of evolution by natural selection. His scientific views would forever influence man's perspective on humanism and the origin of man.
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