1209-1255 |
The Albigensian Crusades |
1260 |
Nicola Pisano decorates the Pisa Bapistry |
1291 |
Acre falls to the Mamlukes who slaughter everyone inside the city. |
1297 |
Battle of Sterling Bridge: Braveheart fame |
1298 |
Battle of Falkirk: Death of W. Wallace |
1302 |
Dante begins the “Devine Comedy” |
1307 |
The Templar roundup by Philip IV , beginning of the end of the order. |
1311 |
Duccio uses perspective in Siena |
| 1314 |
Battle of Bannockburn
|
1334 |
Giotto is put in charge of public works in Florence |
1338 |
Edward III's claim to throne of France causes Hundred Years' War. |
1341 |
Petrarch is crowned “Poet Laureate” in Rome |
1346 |
Edward III's son the Black Prince wins victory over French at Crecy. |
1353 |
Boccaccio’s “Decameron” is published |
1356 |
Black Prince defeats and captures French King Jean II at Poitiers. |
1386 |
Chaucer begins his “Canterbury Tales” |
1390 |
Cennino Cennini’s “book of Painting” |
1401 |
Ghiberti wins the competition for the Florence Baptistry doors |
1402-1403 |
Richard III campaigns in Scotland and Wales |
1410 |
Battle of Grunwald: took place between the Kingdom of Poland, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and their allies on one side, and the Knights of the Teutonic Order on the other. |
1415 |
Henry V wins great victory over French at Agincourt. |
1417-1436 |
Brunellischi creates the dome of Florence Cathedral |
1429 |
Joan of Arc leads French to break English siege of Orleans. |
1435 |
Dante completes his “David” |
1450 |
Alberts begins his treatise on architecture |
1455 |
First printed book, the Gutenberg Bible is published |
1455 |
Wars of the Roses
|
1465 |
Giovanni Bellini and Mantegna both paint versions of “The Agony in the Garden” |
1470-1480 |
Oil painting reached Italy |
1479-1488 |
Verrocchio’s equestrian statue of Colleoni |
1480 |
Botticelli’s “Primavera” |
1494 |
Charles VIII of France invades Italy |
1498 |
Erasmus visits England |
1497-1500 |
Michelangelo’s “Pieta” |
1500 |
Giorgione’s “Tempesta” |
1504-1505 |
Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” |
1505-1507 |
Durer in Venice |
1512 |
Raphael’s “Sistine Madonna” |
1513 |
Machiavelli begins “The Prince” |
1516 |
Leonardo da Vinci goes to France |
1517 |
Luther begins the Protestant Reformation |
1525 |
Battle of Pavia |
1533 |
Titian is appointed court painter to Emperor Charles V |
1563 |
Final session of Council of Trent |
1564 |
Death of Michelangelo |
1588 |
Death of Veronese |
1594 |
Death of Tontoretto |
