the days of rebirth
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The Days of Rebirth: Women Composers Living Through the Events and Society of the Renaissance Era (1450-1600)
1450: Battle of Formigny, Mocha in south-western Arabia becomes main port for coffee export,Vatican Library founded
see: The Hundred Years War
1451: Glasgow University founded
1452: Metal plates are used for printing
1453:
*England loses Continental possessions (excluding Calais)
*Battle of Castillon: English driven from France; Turks capture Constantinople and kill Emperor Constantine XI, end of the Byzantine Empire
(see "The Hundred Years War" link above)
ca. 1455: Gutenberg, first printed Bible
1455-1487: Wars of the Roses, England (see "The Hundred Years War" link above)
1464: Scot. Parliament decrees that "fute-ball and golfe not to be used"
1467-1477: Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgandy
1471-1528: Albrecht Dürer, German artist (see his artwork)
1474-1539: Isabella d'Este, "First Lady of the Renaissance"
1477:
*Death of Charles the Bold (last duke of Burgandy) in Battle of Nancy
*Burgandy becomes part of the Austrian Empire
*First book printed in England: William Caxton's Dicets and Sayings of the Philosophers
*Sandro Boticelli (1444-1510), Primavera
*Johannes Tinctoris, Liber de arte contrapuncti
ca. 1477-1576: Titian (painter)
1478: Ferdinand and Isabella establish Inquisition (second link)
***1479: Marriage of Ferdinand V of Aragon and Isabella of Castile
1478-1535: Sir Thomas More
***1516: Utopia published
***1536: executed (read about: the trial)
more on More
1480-1530: Margaret of Austria (granddaughter to Charles the Bold)
***1497: marries Prince John of Aragon (heir to Spanish throne);
widowed
***1501: marries Duke Philibert II of Savoy
***1504: widowed
***1508-1530: regent of the Netherlands
ca. 1480-1530: Anna von Köln
1485:
*Battle of Bosworth, death of Richard III, Wars of the Roses ends
*Henry Tudor crowned King of England (Henry VII)
ca. 1485: Botticelli, The Birth of Venus
1487: Bartholomew Diaz sails around the southern tip of Africa
1491-1492: Siege of Granada: Christian Spanish capture Granada in Spain from Muslims
1492: Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) arrives in the new world (Bahamas)
1493:
*Columbus'second journey to Caribbean
*Maximilian I becomes Austrian Emperor
1495-1498: Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) paints his Last Supper in the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan
1497-98: Vasco da Gamba finds sea route to India
1498-1450: Columbus' third voyage to Trinidad and coast of South America
1499: Amerigo Vespucci and Alonso Hojeda sail to mouth of Amazon River
c. 1500: Italian Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1520); Botticelli (1444-1510);
Machiavelli (1468-1527)
1500: Peter Henlein invented the pocket watch (Nuremburg)
1501: Ottaviano Petrucci (1466-1539) publishes first printed book of music in Venice entitled Harmonice musices Odhecaton A
1501-1502: Amerigo Vespucci sails along coast of South America
1501-1504: Michelangelo (1475-1564) sculpts the statue David
ca. 1502: Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) paints Mona Lisa
1502-1504: Columbus' fourth and final voyage to Honduras and Panama
1507: Margaret of Austria appointed Regent of the Netherlands
ca. 1507-1536: Anne Boleyn (Queen of England; English lutenist and singer)
***1514-1522: educated at the French Court
*** January 25, 1533: married Henry VIII
*** May 19, 1536: executed
1508-1512: Michelangelo paints the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
1509: Accession of Henry VIII (King of England)
1515: Battle of Marignano
1516:
*Charles V (1500-1556) becomes Emperor of Austria and Spain (greatest empire in the world)
1517: Martin Luther's Wittenberg Theses; beginning of the Reformation
1521: Martin Luther outlawed
1525-1594: Palestrina (click here for picture)
***1554: first masses published
1529: Turkish Siege of Vienna
1530: Madrigali novi, Rome: first publication to use the term "madrigal"
1532-1594: Orlando di Lasso
1533-1603: Queen Elizabeth I
***1558: accession to throne, reigned 45 years
1534: Henry VIII breaks with Rome
1534-1539: Henry VIII dissolves monasteries, sells their lands to the gentry: largest shift in ownership of property in modern history
1535-1541: Michelangelo paints the Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel (also: the ceiling)
ca. 1540-ca. 1590: Maddalena Casulana
***1566: began career as composer
***1566: first published compositions (4 madrigals) in Il Desiderio I (a madrigal anthology)
1541: John Calvin (1509-1564) founds reformed church at Geneva
1542-1576: Isabella de' Medici Orsini
***1576: murdered by husband, Paolo Giordano Orsini, duke of Bracciano
1542: 1st edition of Geneva Psalter published
1542-1543: Portugese become first Europeans to visit Japan
1542-1587: Mary Queen of Scots
1543: Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543) publishes On the Revolutions of the Celestial Orbs
1544-1595: Torquato Tasso, poet
1545-1551: First Council of Trent
***1562: begins discussions of Music
1545: beginning of Counter-Reformation
1547: Heinrich Glareanus, Dodecachordon
1549: English Book of Common Prayer
1552-1599: Edmund Spenser
***1590: The Faerie Queen published (books 1-3)/ 1596: books 1-6)
1553-1558: Mary Tudor (1516-1558), Queen of England (reign)
***1554: marries Philip of Spain
1555: Peace of Augsburg: legalized the Lutheran-Roman Catholic split in Germany