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Fighting started in the Hundred Years' War because the Kings of England - descendants of William the Conqueror who still spoke French -wanted to rule France as well. France was temptingly weak and divided. It began with the English King Edward III already ruling a large part of France; it ended with him ruling hardly any, but with what is now Nord - Pas de Calais split off under foreign rule for several centuries.
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1401: Ghiberti Wins the Right to Sculpt the Northern Doors of The Baptistry Ghiberti is commissioned and takes 28 years to sculpt the bronze doors of the Florentine church. The doors remain one of the most valued treasures of the Renaissance
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Columbus started the Columbia Exchange, which brought the potatoes and the corn to Europe, and Africa
Columbus was the first to discover the new world and discover an island and named in San Salvador.
He also founded a city called Isabella.
He started a large trend of European Exploration
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Martin Luther was a German priest and professor of theology who initiated the Protestant Reformation. Strongly disputing the claim that freedom from God's punishment of sin could be purchased with money, he confronted indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel with his The Ninety-Five Theses in 1517. His refusal to retract all of his writings at the demand of Pope Leo X in 1520 and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms in 1521 resulted in his excommunication by the pope and condemnation a
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Henry VIII (28 June 1491 – 28 January 1547) was king of England from 21 April 1509 until his death.
He was also lord of Ireland and claimant to the kingdom of France.
His coronation at age of 17
Establishing the Church of England in 1534 and the Act of Supremacy
Produced three children who all ruled as the King or Queens of England continuing the Tudor Dynasty: King Edward VI, Bloody Mary and Queen Elizabeth I -
Francis I of France, called the Father and Restorer of Letters, was crowned King of France in 1515 in the cathedral at Reims and reigned until 1547. Francis I is considered to be France's first Renaissance monarch. His reign saw France make immense cultural advances. He was a contemporary of King Henry VIII of England and of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, his great rivals, and Suleiman the Magnificent, his ally.
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Michelangelo was a great leader in the Italian Renaissance.
His greatest glory, painting the Sistine Chapel, began in 1508, and was completed in 1512.
Beginning in 1491, Michelangelo carved Madonna of the Stairs. It took him one year to complete
The paintings on the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican, the Pieta in Rome, the statue of David in Florence to name just a few.
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Henry VIII deems himself Supreme Head of the Church of England
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The Great Bible printed
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Christopher Marlowe born in Canterbury William Shakespeare born
