Renaissance History

Bell Ringer:

List 2 characteristics of a TRAGIC HERO

Connection:  The actual leaders of the Renaissance were TRAGIC HEROES

Renaissance History

England must always have a strong king:

1455-1475 - War of the Roses
Yorks -White Rose - Stuarts
Tudors- Red Rose - Lancasters
**Note secession of royal families below

1475- Printing Press - Gutenberg

1485- Henry VII- First Tudor King

1492- Columbus discovers America

1509- Henry VIII - 6 wives; Catholic Church; Father of next three rulers

1516 Utopia - Sir Thomas Moore

1534- Proclamation of the English Church

1547-53 - Edward II

1553-58- Mary

1558-1603- Elizabeth I - Universal order
**Discoveries; Arts; Music; Writing; Sculpture; Military and Science/ Medicine
1558- Sir Walter Raleigh to VA

1558-1616- Book of the Courtier

1564- 1616 - Wm. Shakespeare - April 23:  37 plays - Renaissance man

1588- Defeat of the Spanish Armada
1588- Sir Walter Raleigh to Virginia

1590- Faerie Queen
1603- Elizabeth dies - Stuarts take over

1603- 25- James I (king) - Union of England and Scotland
1616 - Death of Shakespeare

1640- Charles 1

1640- Civil War

1642- Theaters closed and Charles is beheaded  (Puritan beliefs)

1660- Charles II - Restoration of the monarchy