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Lorenzo de' Medici was born
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first bible printed with moveble type
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Spanish Inquisition is introduced
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Columbus discovers the new world
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Vasco da Gama sails to India
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Michelangelo sculpts the David
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Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
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Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres
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Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince
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Rapheal paints the Transfiguration
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Thomas More writes Utopia
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Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church
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Founding of the Society of Jesus by Ignatius of Loyola
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King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican church
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John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion
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Elizabeth I begins rule in England
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William Shakespeare is born
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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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Galileo invents a thermometer
