Renaissance By elijah.easterday Jan 1, 1449 Lorenzo Medici is born. Oct 22, 1455 Gutenberg prints the first Bible. Nov 1, 1478 The Spanish Inquisition is introduced. Oct 12, 1492 Christopher Columbus discovers a "new world." Apr 24, 1498 Vasco de Gama sails to India. Jan 6, 1501 Michelangelo sculpts David. Jan 6, 1503 Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa Dec 10, 1515 Thomas More writes Utopia. Jan 6, 1516 Rapael paints the Transfiguration. Oct 31, 1517 Martin Luther posts the 95 theses. Jan 8, 1532 Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince Jan 1, 1534 King Henry VIII begins the protestant Anglican Church. Jan 8, 1536 John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion Sep 27, 1540 Founding of the Society of Jesus by Ignatius of Loyola. Jan 6, 1543 Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres. Nov 17, 1558 Elizabeth I begins her rule in England. Apr 26, 1564 William Shakespeare is born Jan 6, 1585 Sir Walter Raleigh tries to establish the Roanoke Colony. Aug 8, 1588 King Phillip II of Spain assembles the Spanish Armada. Jan 6, 1603 Galileo invents a thermometer
