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Jan 1, 1449
Birth of Lorenzo de’ Medici
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Jan 1, 1449
Birth of Lorenzo de’ Medici
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Mar 12, 1455
Gutenberg prints the first Bible
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Nov 1, 1478
Spanish Inquisition is introduced
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Oct 12, 1492
Columbus discovers the new world
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May 20, 1498
Vasco da Gama sails to India
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Sep 8, 1504
Michelangelo sculpts the David
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Dec 6, 1513
Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince
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Dec 6, 1516
Thomas More writes Utopia
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Oct 31, 1517
Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church
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Dec 6, 1517
Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
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Dec 6, 1520
Rapheal paints the Transfiguration
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Sep 7, 1533
Elizabeth I begins rule in England
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Dec 6, 1536
John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion
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Sep 27, 1540
Founding of the Society of Jesus by Ignatius of Loyola
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Dec 6, 1564
William Shakespeare is born
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Dec 6, 1566
Galileo invents a thermometer
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Sir Walter Raleigh tries to establish Roanoke (present day North Carolina
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King Phillip II of Spain assembles the Spanish Armada
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King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican church
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Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres
