Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance . TImeline . Medici Popes' Era
1501: Michelangelo returns to Florence to carve David
1503: Medici cousins - Giovanni and Giulio - arrive in Rome
David unveiled outside Palazzo Vecchio
1504: Michelangelo and Leonardo design competing frescoes
1505: Luther enters Erfurt monastery
1507: Michelangelo paints Doni Tondo
1508: Julius II launches Papal Wars
Michelangelo begins Sistine Chapel
1510: Allessandro de'Medici born
Botticelli dies
1511: Giorgio Vasari born
1512: Sack of Prato
Machiavelli exiled
Luther made Professor of Theology at Wittenberg University
1513: Giovanni de'Medici elected Pope Leo X
Machiavelli writes The Prince
1514: Giulio de'Medici made a cardinal
1515: Leo X unveils a "jubilee sale" of Papal Indulgences
1516: Conspiracy against Leo X
1517: Martin Luther publishes 95 Theses
1519: Catherine de'Medici born
Cosimo de'Medici born
Leonardo da Vinci dies in France
Michelangelo begins work on Medici tombs
1520: Martin Luther excommunicated
1521: Leo X dies
Luther resists pressure to recant and is kidnapped by his protector, Frederick the Wise
1522: Luther returns home, continues to write
1523: Giulio de'Medici elected Pope Clement VII
1525: Luther marries
1526: Henry VIII of England asks Pope Clement for a divorce
Giovanni dalle Bande Nere killed in action
1527: Sack of Rome
Medici expelled from Florence
Michelangelo's David broken
1529: The "Protestation" of German followers of Luther is published, coining the term "Protestant"
1530: Siege of Florence ends, Alessandro de'Medici made Duke of Florence
1534: Catherine de'Medici marries Prince Henri of France
Clement VII dies
Michelangelo begins the Last Judgement
The Church of England breaks away from the Papacy
Luther publishes a German Bible
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