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May 6, 1449
Birth of Lorenzo de' Medici
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May 6, 1450
Gutenberg prints the first Bible
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May 6, 1492
Columbus discovers new world
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May 6, 1498
Vasco da Gama sails to India
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May 6, 1501
Michelangelo sculpts David
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May 6, 1503
Leonardo da Vinci paints Mona Lisa
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May 6, 1513
Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince
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May 6, 1516
Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church
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May 6, 1516
Rapheal paints the Transfiguration
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May 6, 1516
Thomas More writes Utopia
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May 6, 1522
Founding of Society of Jesus by Ignatius of Loyola
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May 6, 1524
Spanish Inquistion introduced
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May 6, 1535
King Henry II Begins Protestant Angelic Church
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May 6, 1544
Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres
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May 6, 1558
Elizabeth I begins rule in England
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May 6, 1559
John Calvin Publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion
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Sir Walter Raleigh tries to establish Roanoke
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King Phillip II of Spain assembles the Spanish Armada
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William Shakespeare born
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Galileo invents a thermometer