- 6 Mar 1475
- Birth of Michelangelo
- 1490
- Michelangelo working as apprentice sculptor and living at the Medici palace in Florence
- Nov 1497
- Michelangelo selects marble for his Pieta from Carrara quarries
- Aug 1498
- Michelangelo signs contract to create the Pietà
- 13 Sep 1501
- Michelangelo sculpts the David in Florence
- 8 Jun 1504
- Michelangelo's David installed outside the Palazzo Vecchio
- SU 1508
- Michelangelo paints the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
- 10 May 1508
- Michelangelo signs contract to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
- 18 Feb 1564
- Death of Michelangelo