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Jan 1, 1449
Birth of Lorenzo de Medici
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Jan 1, 1450
Gutenberg prints first bible
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Jan 1, 1480
Spanish Inquisition is Introduced
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Jan 8, 1492
Columbus Discovers the New World
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Jan 8, 1498
Vasco de Gama sails to India
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Jan 8, 1504
Michelangelo sculpts the David
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Jan 8, 1505
Niccolo Michiavelli writes The Prince
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Jan 8, 1516
Raphael Paints the Transfiguration
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Jan 8, 1516
Thomas More writes Utopia
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Jan 1, 1517
Martin Luther post 95 theses on the door of Castle Church
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Jan 8, 1519
Leonardo da Vinci Paints the Mona Lisa
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Jan 8, 1534
King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican Church
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Jan 8, 1536
John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion
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Jan 8, 1540
Founding of the Society of Jesus by Ignatius of Loyola
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Jan 8, 1543
Nicolas Copernicus Publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres
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Jan 8, 1558
Elizabeth I begins rule in England
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Jan 8, 1564
William Shakespeare is Born
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King Phillip II of Spain assembles the Spanish Armada
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Sir Walter Raleigh tries to establish Roanoke
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Galileo invents a thermometer
