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In 1436 Johaness Gutenberg, a German goldsmith, began designing a machine capable of producing pages of text at an incredible speed—a product that he hoped would offset losses from a failed attempt to sell metal mirrors.
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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect.
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The fall of Constantinople, also known as the conquest of Constantinople, was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Empire.
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The reign of the Catholic Kings would mean the transition from the middle ages to modern times. Through their marriage, two crowns were united within the Trastamara dynasty, namely those of Castilla and Aragon, giving way to the Hispanica monarchy.
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March 6, 1475 - Death: February 18, 1564 Located in: Michelangelo and Florentine Painters Room, The Italian biographer, Giorgio Vasari called Michelangelo the pinnacle of all artistic achievement since the beginning of the Renaissance. -
It's an annual holiday that commemorates the day on October 12, 1492, when the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus officially set foot in the Americas, and claimed the land for Spain.
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The Treaty of Tordesillas, signed in Tordesillas, Spain, on 7 June 1494, and authenticated in Setúbal, Portugal, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between the Portuguese Empire and the Spanish Empire (Crown of Castile)
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Juana I of Castilla, called "la Loca" (Toledo, November 6, 1479-Tordesillas, April 12, 1555),2 was queen of Castile from 1504 to 1555 -
John Calvin ( July 10, 1509 – May 27, 1564) was a French Protestant theologian during the Protestant Reformation and was a central developer of the system of Christian theology called Calvinism. In Geneva, he replaced Papal authority with church authority under a new scheme. -
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in 1517 Luther penned a document attacking the Catholic Church’s corrupt practice of selling “indulgences” to absolve sin. His “95 Theses,” which propounded two central beliefs—that the Bible is the central religious authority and that humans may reach salvation only by their faith and not by their deeds—was to spark the Protestant Reformation.
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In 1534 Parliament passed the Act of Supremacy which defined the right of Henry VIII to be supreme head on earth of the Church of England, thereby severing ecclesiastical links with Rome.
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The Council of Trent , held between 1545 and 1563 in Trent , now in northern Italy, was the 19th ecumenical council of the Catholic Church.Prompted by the Protestant Reformation at the time, it has been described as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation.
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Philip II (21 May 1527 – 13 September 1598), also known as Philip the Prudent , was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from 1580, -
Philip III was King of Spain. As Philip II, he was also King of Portugal, Naples, Sicily and Sardinia and Duke of Milan from 1598 until his death in 1621. -
Diego Velázquez, in full Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez, ( June 6, 1599- August 6, 1660), the most important Spanish painter of the 17th century, a giant of Western art.
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Philip IV also called the Planet Kingwas King of Spain from 1621 to his death. -
Carlos II of Spain, called "El Hechizado" , was King of Spain between 1665 and 1700. -
The War of the Spanish Succession was a European great power conflict that took place from 1701 to 1715.
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The French Revolution began in 1789 and lasted until 1794. King Louis XVI needed more money, but had failed to raise more taxes when he had called a meeting of the Estates General. This instead turned into a protest about conditions in France.
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