1300- The black death-black death is a pandemic that killed millions of people in middle ages.

Black Death first start at China. And the army and trader bring the disease through the Silk Road to the Middle East, and it spread to Italy, and the Black Death spread out to the whole Europe. The reason the Black Death spread is because of war, diet, bad weather and people is always hungry. I think this event is important is because this happened at renaissance and it accrue peoples life.
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1334-the artist Giotto introduces some perspective into his painting and puts some expression on the faces of his character I think this events is important is because this is the first painting shows perspective in renaissance.

1350- Renaissance started His age of the Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned the period roughly from the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later

spreading to the rest of Europe. Also included a huge artistic movement.

1350-Boccaccio writes Decameron

1420- Brunelleschi creates linear perspective (designs dome of Florence Cathedral) Brunelleschi is famous for two panel paintings illustrating geometric optical linear perspective made in the early 1400s. His biographer Antonio Menotti described this famous experiment in which Brunelleschi painted two panels: the first of the Florentine Baptistery as viewed frontally from the western portal of the unfinished cathedral, and second the palazzo Vecchio as seen obliquely from its northwest corner.

1434-Cosimo de Medici head of government in Florence

1450- Gutenberg invents the Printing Press Johanns invention if mechanical movable type printing started the Printing Revolution and is widely regarded as the most important event of the modern period it played a key role in the development of the Renaissance, Reformation, the Age of Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution and laid the material basis for the modern knowledge-based economy and the spread of learning to the masses.

1453-Fall of Constantinople: scholar flee to Italy Ohannas invention of mechanical movable type printing started the printing revolution and is widely regarded as the most important event of modern period. It played a key role in the development of the Renaissance, Reformation, the Age of Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution and laid

the material basis for the modern knowledge-based economy and the spread of learning to the masses.
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1492-Chirstopher Columbus discovery the America

1492-Death of Lorenzo de Medici Lorenzo de' Medici was an Italian statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance.

1494-Charles VIII of France takes Florence

1504-Leonardo di Vinci paints the Mona Lisa Perhaps the greatest single figure of the Renaissance, Leonardo excelled in painting, sculpting, engineering, biology, and many other fields. He travelled around Italy, and eventually France as well, making observations on nature and seeking commissions. Many of his contributions were ideas for inventions which were not built until long after his death. His most famous completed work, the Mona Lisa, is the most famous portrait ever painted.

1508-Michelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel Michelangelo was one of the greatest artists of the High Renaissance. At a young age his talent was spotted by Lorenzo de Medici and he was brought up in the Medici palace. He went on to create some of the most famous works of the Renaissance, carving the Pieta and painting the walls and ceilings of the Sistine Chapel.

1511-Rapheal paint the school of Athen Hailed as the greatest painter of the Renaissance, Raphael, born Rafaello Sanzi, worked in Rome under papal commissions from Pope Julius II and Pope Leo X, decorating much of the Vatican. The most widely known of the series of murals and frescoes he painted is the School of Athens, which depicts an imaginary assembly of famous philosophers. He was considered so important by his contemporaries that when he died at the premature age of 37 he was buried in the Pantheon.

1516- Titian painting: who died in Venice? Titian was the most famous Venetian artist of the Renaissance. Born Tatiana Vercelli, in the Italian Alps, he moved to Venice early in life to study. Titian distinguished himself through the use of bright colours and new techniques that gave those colours greater subtlety and depth.

1541- Michelangelo: The Last Judgement. Michaelangelo was one of the greatest artists of the High Renaissance. At a young age his talent was spotted by Lorenzo de Medici and he was brought up in the Medici palace. He went on to create some of the most famous works of the Renaissance, carving the Pieta and painting the walls and ceilings of the Sistine Chapel.

1543- Copernics publishes

1550- Vasaris Lives of the Artists publish

1609 Galileo invents the telescope (1633 forced to recant the Copernican theory) he change peoples think about universe

1642 - (Glorious Revolution); Theatres close, will not reopen until the Restoration period (1660). Galileo dies replaced by Isaac Newton

1508- Michelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel 1350- Boccaccio writes Decameron

1516- Titian paint who died in Venice

1350Renaissance started 1300- The Black Death

1453-Fall of Constantinople: scholar flee to Italy 1434- Cosimo de Medici head of government in Florence

1504Leonardo di Vinci paints the Mona Lisa

1543Copernics publishes

1609 - Galileo invents the telescope (1633 forced to recant the Copernican theory) he change peoples think about universe

1492-Death of Lorenzo de Medici

1334- Artist Giotto first introduce perspective to his painting perspective

1450Gutenberg invents the Printing Press

1494-Charles VIII of France takes Florence

1420- Brunelleschi creates linear perspective

1492-Chirstopher Columbus discovery the America

1511-Rapheal paint the school of Athen

1541Michelangelo: The Last Judgement

1550- Vasaris Lives of the Artists publish

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