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Leonardo Leonardo's World
1427
Ser Piero da Vinci, Leonardo's 1428
father, born Joan of Arc leads French armies
against the English
1435 1435
Artist Andrea Verrocchio, Leon Battista Alberti, Italian
LeonardoΓÇÖs mentor, born in Florence humanist, publishes laws of
perspective
1439
Johannes Gutenberg, German
craftsman, invents printing press
1451
Explorer Christopher Columbus born
1452
Leonardo da Vinci born
1453
Turks take Constantinople,
kill Constantine XI
End of Hundred YearsΓÇÖ War between
England and France
Johannes Gutenberg prints Bible
1455
War of the Roses begins in England
1465
Music first printed
1468 1468
Death of Leonardo's grandfather Johannes Gutenberg dies
1469 1469
Begins apprenticeship in Niccol├▓ Machiavelli,
Verrocchio's workshop Italian statesman, born
Lorenzo the Magnificent becomes
ruler of Florence
1472 1472
Becomes member of Dante's Divine Comedy
Florentine Guild of Painters first printed
1472-75
Paints The Baptism of Christ,
Madonna with the Flower
1473
Draws Arno Valley
1474
First book printed in English,
Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye
1475
Michelangelo, Italian sculptor,
1476-78 painter and architect, born
Paints Annunciation
1477
Sandro Botticelli paints Primavera
1478 1478
Receives commission for altar piece Giuliano de Medici, scion of
in the Palazzo Vecchio Florence's ruling family, murdered
Spanish Inquisition begins
1479
Draws the death
of Baroncelli, murderer of
Giuliano de Medici
1480 1480
Draws parachute Ivan III frees Russia from Tatars
Kabuki theater develops in Japan
1481
Receives commission for
Adoration of the Magi
1482
Moves to Milan under patronage of
Lodovico Sforza
1483 1483
Receives commission for Charles VIII becomes
Virgin of the Rocks king of France
1484
Botticelli paints Birth of Venus
1485
War of the Roses ends; Henry VII
becomes king of England
1488
Paints Lady with an Ermine
1489 1489
Makes anatomical First printed use of plus and minus
drawings of skulls signs
1490 1490
Paints Portrait of a Musician Ballet develops in Italian courts
Discovers capillary action of Colorless glass invented
liquids
1492 1492
Draws pedal-powered wing Spain expels Moors; Jews in Spain
forced to convert or leave
Christopher Columbus
discovers New World
1493
Model for sculpture of horse
displayed
1494 1494
Makes drawing of clock with Spain and Portugal divide New World
pendulum in Treaty of Tordesillas
Draws various arches and compares
their relative strength
1495-98
Paints The Last Supper
1496
Designs roller bearings and
rolling mill
1497
Famine in Florence
News of tobacco plant reaches
Europe
John Cabot reaches east coast
of North America
1498 1498
Receives vineyard from Lodovico Louis XII becomes king of France
Sforza
Vasco da Gama
discovers sea route to India
1498-99
Draws cartoon for Virgin and Child with
St. Anne
1499 1499
Leaves Milan Louis XII of France
aligns with Florence
and Venice against Milan
Switzerland secedes from German
Empire
1500 1500
Visits Mantua, then Lead pencils first used
returns to Florence in England
Designs helicopter
Draws wheel-lock musket
1501
Michelangelo receives commission
for David statue
1502 1502
Begins work as architect and Peter Heinlein constructs
military engineer for Cesare "Nuremberg Egg," first pocket watch
Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI
1503 1503
Begins work on Battle of Anghiari, Canterbury Cathedral completed in
Mona Lisa England
1504
His father, Ser Piero da Vinci,
dies
1505
Drawings of flight of birds
1506 1506
Starts legal action against Architect Donato Bramante begins
brothers because left out of work on St. Peter's Basilica in
father's will Rome
Works in Milan for Louis XII of Machiavelli creates
France Florentine militia, first
national army in Italy
Christopher Columbus dies
1507
Begins extensive study of eye
1508
Michelangelo begins
work on Sistine Chapel
1509 1509
Begins painting Virgin and Child Henry VIII becomes
with St. Anne king of England
Earthquake destroys Constantinople
Slave trade to New World encouraged
by Bartolom de las Casas, Roman
Catholic bishop
1510
Concentrates on
study of anatomy
1512 1512
Draws self-portrait Michelangelo completes work on
ceiling of Sistine Chapel
1514-16 1514
Lives in Rome but travels often Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch
paintsThe Garden of Earthly
Paints St. John the Baptist Delights
1515
Designs project for
draining of Pontine Marshes
1516
Michelangelo sculpts Moses
1517 1517
Moves to France under patronage of Martin Luther posts his
Francis I, king of France; does 95 Theses in Wittenberg
geometrical studies
Coffee first drunk in Europe
Raphael paints The Transfiguration
1518
Works on final drawings
1519 1519
Dies at Amboise, France; Ferdinand Magellan leaves Europe
manuscripts bequeathed to Francesco to sail around world
Melzi, his pupil
1520
Suleiman the Magnificent becomes
sultan of Turkey
1521
Hernán Cortés rules Mexico after
Aztec state destroyed
1532
Machiavelli's The Prince published
1536
John Calvin publishes Institutes of
the Christian Religion
1543
Nicolaus Copernicus publishes his
heliocentric theory
1558
Elizabeth I becomes Queen of
England
1564
Galileo Galilei, astronomer and
physicist, born
William Shakespeare born
1570
Francesco Melzi dies; Leonardo's
manuscripts dispersed
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