Culture
- 1200
- University of Paris gets its charter
- 1260-1327
- Meister Eckhart
- 1274
- Thomas Aquinas completes his Summa Theologica
- 1276
- Giotto
- 1300-1349
- William of Ockham
- 1321
- Dante finished the Divine Comedy
- 1324
- Marsilius of Padua publishes Defensor Pacis
- 1348-1351
- Boccaccio writes the Decameron
- 1360
- Publication of Piers Plowman by Langland
- 1385-1440
- Jan van Eyck
- 1400
- Jean Froissart completes his Chronicles of the Hundred
Years' War
- Chaucer completes Canterbury Tales
- 1401-1429
- Masaccio
- 1402-1472
- Leon Battista Alberti
- 1455
- Johann Gutenberg prints 42-line Bible at Mainz
- 1469
- Theologia Platonica, Marsilio Ficino
- 1475-1564
- Michelangelo Buonarotti
- 1483-1520
- Raphael
- 1490
- Founding of Aldus Manutius' press in Venice
- 1509
- In Praise of Folly, Desiderius Erasmus
- 1513
- The Prince, Macchiavelli
- 1516
- Book of the Courtier, Castiglione
- Utopia, Thomas More
- 1582
- Gregorian calendar reform
- 1598
- Bernini born
- 1606
- Rembrandt born
- 1610
- Galileo publishes The Starry Messenger
- 1616
- death of Cervantes
- death of Shakespeare
- 1627
- Kepler publishes the Rudolfine Tables
- Bacon publishes New Atlantis
- 1637
- Discourse on Method, Descartes
- 1640
- Rubens dies
- 1651
- Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes
- 1660
- Royal Society founded
- 1667
- Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan
- Paradise Lost, John Milton
- 1687
- Newton publishes Principia Mathematica