Culture

1200

University of Paris gets its charter

1260-1327

Meister Eckhart

1274

Thomas Aquinas completes his Summa Theologica

1276

Giotto

1300-1349

William of Ockham

1321

Dante finished the Divine Comedy

1324

Marsilius of Padua publishes Defensor Pacis

1348-1351

Boccaccio writes the Decameron

1360

Publication of Piers Plowman by Langland

1385-1440

Jan van Eyck

1400

Jean Froissart completes his Chronicles of the Hundred Years’ War

Chaucer completes Canterbury Tales

1401-1429

Masaccio

1402-1472

Leon Battista Alberti

1455

Johann Gutenberg prints 42-line Bible at Mainz

1469

Theologia Platonica, Marsilio Ficino

1475-1564

Michelangelo Buonarotti

1483-1520

Raphael

1490

Founding of Aldus Manutius’ press in Venice

1509

In Praise of Folly, Desiderius Erasmus

1513

The Prince, Macchiavelli

1516

Book of the Courtier, Castiglione

Utopia, Thomas More

1582

Gregorian calendar reform

1598

Bernini born

1606

Rembrandt born

1610

Galileo publishes The Starry Messenger

1616

death of Cervantes

death of Shakespeare

1627

Kepler publishes the Rudolfine Tables

Bacon publishes New Atlantis

1637

Discourse on Method, Descartes

1640

Rubens dies

1651

Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes

1660

Royal Society founded

1667

Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan

Paradise Lost, John Milton

1687

Newton publishes Principia Mathematica

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