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Jan 1, 1449
Birth of Lorenzo de' Medici
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Jan 1, 1455
Gutenberg Prints First Bible
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Jan 3, 1460
Vasco da Gama sails to India
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Jan 1, 1478
Spanish Inquisition
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Jan 3, 1492
Columbus discovers new world
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Jan 3, 1504
Michelangelo sculpts david
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Jan 3, 1507
Leonardo da Vinci paints Mona Lisa
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Jan 3, 1513
Niccolo Machiavelli writes "The Prince"
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Jan 3, 1515
Thomas More writes "Utopia"
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Jan 1, 1517
Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on Castle Church door
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Jan 3, 1520
Rapheal paints the Transfiguration
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Jan 3, 1534
King Henry begins the protestant Angelican Church
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Jan 3, 1534
Founding of the Society of Jesus by Ignatius of Loyola
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Jan 3, 1536
John Calvin publishes "Institutes of the Christian Religion"
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Jan 3, 1543
Nicolas Copernicus publishes "On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres
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Jan 3, 1558
Elizabeth begins rule in England
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Jan 1, 1564
William Shakespeare is born
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Sir Walter 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
