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1448-1478/1481
Jean Fouquet, active in Tours
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1453
Fall of Constantinople, end of the Byzantine Empire |
1455
Printing of the Gutenberg Bible in Mainz |
1459-1485
Guillaume Barbe, glazier, active in Rouen |
1460/65-1493/98
Jean Colombe, active in Bourges |
1464
Louis XI creates the Royal postal system with the Edict of Luxies |
1469
Marriage of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile leads to the unification of Spain |
1470
First book printed in Paris by the Sorbonne Press of Guillaume Fichet and Jean Heynlin: Gasparino da Barzizza, Epistolae |
1460-1480
Maître François , active in Paris
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1477
Death of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy and conclusion of the Burgundian Wars. |
c. 1480-1510
Master of the Très Petites Heures of Anne of Brittany (Jean d’Ypres?), active in Paris |
1480-1521
Jean Bourdichon, active in Tours |
1481
Beginning of the Spanish Inquisition |
1483
Birth of Simon Bening |
1483
Richard III, King of England |
1485-1528
Guillaume II Le Roy, active in Lyons |
1485
Henry VII, King of England, founder of the Tudor Dynasty |
1485
First printed book by Antoine Vérard, Catholicon abbreviatum |
1485
First printed Book of Hours in France, Jean Dupré for Antoine Vérard |
1487
Pierre Le Rouge prints the Mer des hystoires |
1490s-c. 1510
Master of Etienne Poncher, active in Paris |
c. 1490/95-1520s
Master of the Paris Entries, active in Paris |
1492
Christopher Colombus discovers America |
1492
Jews expelled from Spain |
1494
Aldine Press founded in Venice |
1494-1559
Great Italian Wars or the Habsburg-Valois Wars |
1498
Savonarola burnt as heretic in Florence |
1499
Pietà of Michelangelo Buonarotti |
1493
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor |
1494-1495
Albrecht Dürer’s trip to Italy |
1497-1499
Vasco da Gama’s first voyage from Europe to India and back |
c. 1500-1520
Jean Pichore, active in Paris |
c. 1500-1510
Master of Philippe de Gueldres, active in Paris |
1503
Copernicus begins his studies of astronomy, moves the sun to the center of the solar system |
1509
Henry VIII, King of England |
c. 1508-early 1520s
Master of Claude de France, active in Tours |
1511
Erasmus, Praise of Folly |
1512-1546
Noel Bellemare, active in Paris |
1512-45
Etienne Collault, active in Paris |
1513
Machiavelli, The Prince |
1515
Battle of Marignano, cherished victory by Francis I (“I have conquered those whom only Caesar conquered) |
1515
Raphael, Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione |
1515
Thomas More, Utopia |
c. 1515-1530s
Master of Ango, active in Rouen |
1516
Leonardo de Vinci in the Clos Lucé near the Château d’Amboise |
1516
First mention of Jean Clouet, peintre du roi, |
1516
Portuguese expeditions to China (Ming Dynasty) begin |
1517
Martin Luther’s 95 Theses published in Wittenberg |
1519
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor |
1519-1521
Herman Cortès in Mexico |
1519-1522
Ferdinand Magellan’s first circumnavigation of the Earth |
1520
Suleiman the Magnificent, Grand Sultan of the Ottoman Empire |
1524-1525
Geoffroy Tory’s Horae printed in Paris |
1524-1549
Literary career of Marguerite of Navarre, sister of Francis I |
1525
Battle of Pavia, French defeat and capture of Francis I |
c. 1525
Birth of Peter Bruegel |
1525-1546 Master of François de Rohan, active in Paris |
1526
Beginning of the Mughal Empire in India |
1527
Sack of Rome, considered the end of the Italian Renaissance |
1530
Foundation of the Collegium trilingue (Collège de France) by Francis I urged by Guillaume Budé |
1532
Rabelais’s Pantagruel, followed by Gargantua (1534) |
1533
Hans Holbein paints The Ambassadors |
c. 1533-1563
Master of Philippe de Levis-Mirepois (Servais Cornoualle?), active in Toulouse |
1533-1534
Henry VIII founds the Anglican Church of England |
1534
Affair of the Placards, end of the conciliatory religious movement of Francis I |
1535
Primaticcio finishes the Royal apartments in Fontainebleau |
1536 John Calvin’sInstitution de la vie chrétienne |
1539
Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts, prescribed the use of French in all administrative domains |
1539
Robert Estienne appointed Royal typographer by Francis I |
1543
Andreas Vesalius’s On the Workings of the Human Body |
1546
Death of Etienne Dolet, printer and scholar, Place Maubert in Paris |
1546
Michelangelo is made chief architect of St.-Peter’s Basilica, Rome |
1547
Death of Henry VIII, Edward VI becomes King of England |
1547
Death of Francis I, Henry II becomes King of France |
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