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Jan 2, 1300
Birth of Lorenzo de' Medici
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Jan 7, 1450
Gutenberg prints the first bible
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Jan 13, 1492
Columbus discovers the new world
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Jul 8, 1497
Vasco da Gama sails to India
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Jan 7, 1503
Leonardo Da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
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Jan 7, 1504
Michaelangelo sculpts the David
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Jan 4, 1513
Spanish inquisition is introduced
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Jan 7, 1516
Thomas More writes Utopia
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Jan 7, 1517
King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican church
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Oct 31, 1517
Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of the castle church
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Jan 7, 1520
Raphael paints the transfiguration
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Jan 7, 1532
Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince
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Jan 7, 1536
John Calvin publishes Institues of the Christian Religion
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Sep 27, 1540
Founding of the Society of Jesus by Ignatius of Loyola
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Jan 7, 1543
Nicolas Copernicus publishes on the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres
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Jan 7, 1558
Elizabeth I begins rule in England
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Apr 26, 1564
William Shakespeare is born
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Sir Walter Raleigh tries to establish Roanoke
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King Philip II of Spain assembles the Spanish Armada
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Galileo invents a thermometer
