Chronological Chart

1400

Death of Geoffrey Chaucer

1444

Treaty of Tours

1401

Lorenzo Ghiberti wins the competi-

1450

Battle of Formigny

Tion to create bronze panels for the

C. 1450

Renovations of Tempio Malatestiano

Baptistry doors in Florence

Completed

1407

Founding of first public bank, in

1450s

Successful application of movable

Genoa

Type for printing

1414-1418

Council of Constance

1453

Turkish army conquers Constan-

1415

Jan Hus is burned at the stake

Tinople

1415

Battle of Agincourt

1454

Peace of Lodi

1417

End of the Great Schism in the papacy

1455-1460

Piero della Francesca paints his fresco

1420

Treaty of Troyes

Legend of the True Cross

1428

Siege of Orleans

1469

Union of Spain through the marriage

1430-1432

Donatello creates his bronze statue of

Of Isabella and Ferdinand

David

1484

Diogo Cao sails into the estuary of

1431

Joan of Arc burned at the stake

The Congo River

1431-1449

Council of Basel

1485

Battle of Bosworth

C. 1432

Ghent Altarpiece completed

1485

Siege of Ronda

1434

Gil Eannes reaches Cape Bojador on

1488

Bartolomeu Dias voyages beyond the

The coast of West Africa

Cape of Good Hope

1435

Filippo Brunelleschi completes the

1490

First printed edition in Latin of the

Dome of Florence Cathedral

Works of Galen

1435

Leon Battista Alberti writes his treatise

1492

Muslims defeated in Granada by

On painting

Spanish troops

1436

Treaty of Arras

1492

Expulsion ofJews from Spanish terri-

1438

Habsburgs establish control of the

Tory

Holy Roman Empire

1492

Christopher Columbus sails to the

1438

Pisanello casts first portrait medal of

Caribbean islands

The Renaissance

1494

French troops invade Italy

1438-1445

Council of Florence (Council of

1494

Savonarola hanged and his body

F errara-Florence)

Burned at the stake

1494

Treaty of Tordesillas

1532

Francois Rabelais begins publication

1497

John Cabot reaches North America

Of his satirical novel

1497-1498

Vasco da Gama sails around the tip of

1534

Henry VIII proclaims his suprem

Africa to reach india

Acy and confiscates Catholic Church

1498

Albrecht Durer issues his prints

Property

Apocalypse

1534

Society of Jesus founded by Ignatius

1500

Pedro Cabral sights the coast of

Of Loyola

Brazil

1534-1535

Jacques Cartier enters the Gulf of

1503

Battle of Cerignola

Saint Lawrence

C. 1505

Invention of the pocket watch

1535

Battle of Tunis

1509

Battle of Agnadello (Battle of

1539-1541

Hernando de Soto explores the pre

Giaradadda)

Sent-day southeastern United States

1511

Portuguese troops capture the city of

1540

Fernando de Alarcon reaches Cali

Malacca

Fornia

1512

Battle of Ravenna

1540-1542

Vazquez de Coronado travels through

1512-1517

Council of Lateran V

The present-day southeastern and

1513

Battle of Novara

South-central United States

1513

Juan Ponce de Leon explores the

1541

Jean Calvin establishes the Protestant

Florida coast

Reformation in Geneva

1513

Nunez de Balboa sees the Pacific

1543

Andreas Vesalius publishes his first

Ocean

Anatomical treatise

1513

Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince

1543

Nicholas Copernicus publishes his

1515

Battle of Marignano

Heliocentric theory of the universe

1517

Martin Luther posts his Ninety-five

1545-1563

Council of Trent (with several long

Theses on the church door in Wit-

Breaks)

Tenberg

1547

Battle of Muhlberg

1519-1522

Ferdinand Magellan sets out to cir-

1550

Giorgio Vasari publishes his Lives of

Cumnavigate the globe, dies along the

The Artists

Way; Sebastian del Cano completes

1553

Battle of Marciano

The voyage

1555

Peace of Augsburg

1519-1538

Hernan Cortes explores and conquers

1556

Georg Agricola publishes his On

Mexico

Metallurgy

1521

Siege of Tenochtitlan

1557

Battle of Saint Quentin

1522

Battle of Biocca

1559

Peace of Cateau-Cambresis

1523

Giovanni da Verrazano sails from

1567

Villa Rotonda begun by Andreas Pal-

France, along the eastern North

Ladio in Vicenza

American seaboard, and into present-

1569

Mercator’s projection in cartography

Day New York harbor

First published

1525

Battle of Pavia

1571

Battle of Lepanto

1526

Battle of Mohacs

1576-1578

Martin Frobisher attempts to find a

1526

Treaty of Madrid

Northwest Passage

1527

Imperial troops sack Rome

1577-1580

Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates

1528

Baldassare Castiglioni writes The Book

The globe

Of the Courtier

1580

Spain begins rule of Portugal

1529

Peace of Cambrai

1582

Gregorian reform of the calendar

1529

Siege of Vienna

1583

Sir Humphrey Gilbert reaches

1529

Treaty of saragossa

Newfoundland

1585

Sir Walter Raleigh and associates establish the first English colony in

1588

Failure of Spanish Armada in attack on England

America on Roanoke Island

1594-1597

Willem Barents explores the Arctic

1588

Michel de Montaigne writes his

1598

Peace of Vervins

Essays

1616

Death of William Shakespeare