Chronology
Five thousand years, end to end
5 records shown
- 1455Discovery
Gutenberg Prints the Bible
Wittenberg
Movable metal type turns the reproduction of text from a craft into an industry.
↓ next - 1503Cultural
Leonardo Begins the Mona Lisa
Florence
A portrait of a Florentine merchant's wife, carried unfinished across the Alps and never delivered.
↓ next - 1512Cultural
The Sistine Chapel Ceiling
Florence
Michelangelo finishes four years of fresco over 500 square metres of Vatican ceiling.
↓ next - 1517Cultural
Luther's Ninety-Five Theses
Wittenberg
An academic objection to indulgences becomes, via the printing press, a continental schism.
↓ next - 1521Battle
The Fall of Tenochtitlan
Tenochtitlan
A siege, an epidemic, and tens of thousands of indigenous allies end the Mexica empire.
Range shown: 1455 CE — 1521 CE