1395: Fra Angelico was born as Guido di Pietro in 1395 in Vicchio, in the Tuscan province of Mugello, near Florence
Guido di Pietro (Fra Angelico) requested admittance at the convent of San Domenico in Florence when he was a young boy
1418: Fra Angelico completed his novitiate in Cortona
1418: Fra Angelico entered a Dominican monastery in Fiesole and became a friar which required that he changed his name. He took the name Giovanni da Fiesole
1418: Fra Angelico began his career as an illuminator of religious books but was instructed to undertake fresco painting
1420: Fra Angelico started the Annunciation and the Adoration of the Magi painting
1425 -1430: Fra Angelico painted Noli Me Tangere, Lamentation, Annunciation, Crucified Christ with Saint John the Evangelist, the Virgin, and Saints Dominic and Jerome, the Nativity, Transfiguration, Mocking of Christ with the Virgin and Saint Dominic, Christ Resurrected and the Mary's at the Tomb, Coronation of the Virgin and the Presentation in the Temple painting
1430: Fra Angelico painted the Saint Anthony the Abbott Tempted by a Lump of Gold painting
1434: Fra Angelico painted the Coronation of the Virgin Altarpiece from San Domenico
1436: Fra Angelico was transferred to the Dominican convent of S. Marco in Florence
1438 -1440: Fra Angelico painted the San Marco Altarpiece
1445: Fra Angelico was invited to Rome by the pope Eugenius IV
1447: Fra Angelico painted the Chapel of San Brizio with detail of Christ Seated in Judgment painting
1450: Fra Angelico became Prior of the convent of San Marco and later Archbishop of Florence
1450 - 1455: Fra Angelico painted Saint Lawrence Giving Alms, The Ordination of Saint Lawrence, the Stoning of Saint Stephen painting and Saint Lawrence Receiving the Treasures of the Church from Pope Sixtus II
Fra Angelico died on February 18, 1455 in Rome