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Ghiberti finishes his first bronze doors(North Doors)for the baptistry of Florence.
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The elaborate facades of the doge's palace is completed.
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Masaccio paints an altarpiece for the Carmelite church in Pisa.
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Cosimo de Medici, head of a powerful merchant family, gained control of the republic of Florence.
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Brunelleschi began working on the Church of San Lorenzo, Florence.
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The council of Florence brings scholars from Europe to Italy
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Michelozzo di Bartolomeo designs the Palazzo Medici.
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Johannes Gutenberg makes the first printing press in Germany.
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The first printing press in Paris was set up.
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William Caxton sets up the first printing press in England.
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Columbus and his crew land in the Bahamas.
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Mona Lisa is painted by Leonardo Divinchi.
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Saxon monk named Martin Luther pinned a paper on the Wittenberg Church door listing 95 complaints against the church. Later they made the church Lutheran Church that rejected Pope and Roman Catholicism.
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A Spanish ship completes the first trip around the world.
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Gustavus Vasa becomes the King of Sweden.
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Louis II lf Hungary killed fighting the Turks at Mohacs.
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Ottoman Turk conquers Hungary.
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KIng Henry VIII became head of the England Church.
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Sansovino designs St. Marks Library.
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Michelangelo becomes one of the architects of St. Peter's.
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Dutch artist Pieter Bruegel the Elder paints "The Tower Of Babel".
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Puritan leaders voted to expel Roger Williams from Massachusetts because he often stated his beliefs in his ssermons.
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Mount Etna began to rumble and belch gas. Everyone ignore the warning of a big eruption. Three days later the volcano began spewing out noxious fumes in large amounts. About 3,000 people died that lived on the slope.
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The Quakers bought Berkley's share of New Jersey and founded Salem, New Jersey. It was the first Quaker settlement in North America.
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King Philip's War was when the colonists and native americans fought over land. At least 3,000 native americans died.
