This is the Timeline of the Renaissance.
1271- Marco Polo and his family travel to China on the Silk Road
1337- The Hundred Years' War begins
1341- Francesco Petrarch, considered the first great Humanist, is named the Poet Laureate of Rome
1347- The Black Death arrives in Europe
1374- Petrarch dies
1378- The Great Schism begins
1397- Giovanni de Medici moves to Florence
1401- Ghiberti gets to sculpt the Northern Doors of the Baptistery
Around 1420- Brunelleschi creates the dome
1420- Papacy returns to Rome
1423- Francesco Forsari becomes the doge of Venice
1429- Cosimo de' Medici becomes the head of Florence
1452- Leonardo Da Vinci is born
1453- Constantinople falls to the Ottoman Empire
1453- The end of the Hundred Years' War
1464- Cosimo de' Medici dies
1469- Lorenzo de' Medici becomes the head of Florence
1492- Christopher Columbus finds the Americas (for Spain)
1494- The Medici family is kicked out of Florence by Girolamo Savanarola
1503- Pope Julius II assumes the role of Pope
1508- Michelangelo begins to paint the Sistine Chapel Ceiling
1513- Machiavelli publishes "The Prince"
1513- Pope Leo X assumes the role of pope
1517- Martin Luther nails the 95 Theses to the church door
1517- The start of the Reformation
1519- Leonardo Da Vinci dies
1538- King Henry VIII gets excommunicated
1546- Martin Luther dies
1599- Shakespeare builds the Globe Theatre
1610- Galileo discovers the moons of Jupiter
1618- The Thirty Years' War begins