 |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Select > Who • What • When • Where • Which • Widgets |
| |
|
|
|
|
| Timeline |
|
 |
|
Renaissance
: 15 of 199 |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
When > Periods •
Years
Periods > Periods •
Big Bang •
Bronze Age •
Byzantine •
Cambrian •
Enlightenment •
First Settlements •
Formation Earth •
Hellenistic Age •
Ice Age •
Industrial Age •
Iron Age •
Mesozoic •
Middle Ages •
Permian •
Reformation •
Renaissance •
Roman Age •
Stone Age •
Future
Next >
1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 < Previous
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Age of Exploration
The desire to explore the unknown has been a driving force in human history since the dawn of time. From the earliest documented accounts, ancient civilizations have expl... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Piracy Timeline
I have tried to gather most of the important events of piracy throughout history into a single time line.... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
The Mongol Empire
The Mongol Empire was the largest contiguous empire in world history and for some time was the most feared in Eurasia. It was the product of Mongol unification and Mongol... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Petrarch, Poet
Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca), Italian scholar, poet, and humanist, a major force in the development of the Renaissance, famous for his poems addressed to Laura, an idea... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Ibn Battutah, Muslim Traveler
Ibn Battuta, Muslim traveler from Tangier. No other medieval traveler is known to have journeyed so extensively. In 30 years (from c.1325) he made a series of journeys re... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Laura de Noves, Petrarch's Muze
Laura de Noves was the wife of Count Hugues de Sade (ancestor of the Marquis de Sade). She could be the Laura that the Renaissance poet Francesco Petrarch wrote about ext... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Longchenpa, Longchen Rabjampa
Longchenpa or Longchen Rabjampa, Tib., klong chen pa, (1308 - 1363 possibly 1369) was a major teacher in the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. Along with Sakya Pandita... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pope Urban V, Attempt return to Rome
Urban V, pope (1362–70), a Provençal named Guillaume de Grimoard; successor of Innocent VI. He was a Benedictine renowned for his knowledge of canon law. The great event... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
King Edward III of England
Edward III was 14 when he was crowned King and assumed government in his own right in 1330. In 1337, Edward created the Duchy of Cornwall to provide the heir to the thron... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio was a Italian author and poet, the greatest of Petrarch's disciples, an important Renaissance humanist in his own right and author of a number of notab... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
Charles IV, born Wenceslaus, of the House of Luxembourg, was Holy Roman Emperor from 1355 until his death. He was the eldest son and heir of John the Blind, from whom he... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
John Wycliffe, Precursor of Reformation
The first hand-written English language Bible manuscripts were produced in 1380's AD by John Wycliffe, an Oxford professor, scholar, and theologian. Wycliffe, (also spell... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
William of Wykeham
William of Wykeham was Bishop of Winchester, Chancellor of England, founder of Winchester College and of New College, Oxford, and builder of a large part of Windsor Castl... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Hongwu, Founder Ming Dynasty
The Hongwu Emperor, personal name Zhu Yuanzhang, was the founder and first emperor 1368-1398 of the Ming Dynasty of China. His era name, Hongwu, means "Immensely Martial.... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Edward the Black Prince
In the whole range of English history there is no name so completely wrapped up in the idea of English chivalry as that of Edward the Black Prince. Born on the 15th of Ju... |
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
Next >
1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9 • 10 < Previous
|
| |
|
 |
|
•
: double-click any word
|