Historical Events
By: Chantal Molina, Duane Garcia, Anna
Barcis
Historical Events
1315-1317: Famine in Northern Europe
1346: Battle of Crecy
1347-1350: Black Death
1356: Battle of Poitiers
1381: Peasants’ revolt in England
1386-1400: Geoffrey Chaucer writes Canterbury
Tales
1406: Florence Conquers Pisa
1429: Joan of Arc leads French to break English
siege of New Orleans
1431: Joan of Arc burned at the stake
More Events
1455-1485: Wars of the Roses
1476: William Caxton sets up the printing press at
Westminster
1483: Martin Luther born
1485: Battle of Bosworth Field
1492: Christopher Columbus reaches the West
Indies
1498: Vasco da Gama reaches India
1503: Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
1508-1512: Michelangelo paints ceiling of Sistine
Chapel in Rome.
Authors
1387-1400: Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales”
1503-1542: Sir Thomas Wyatt
1530-1566: Sir Thomas Hoby
1533-1603: Elizabeth I
1552-1599: Edmund Spenser
1552-1618: Sir Walter Ralegh
1554-1586: Sir Phillip Sidney
1564-1593: Christopher Marlowe
1564-1616: Shakespeare
1567-1601: Thomas Nashe