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he was a magnate, diplomat, politician and patron of scholars, artists and poets
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first printed Bible from a letter of 12 March 1455
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It was intended to maintain Catholic orthodoxy in their kingdoms and to replace the Medieval Inquisition, which was under Papal control.
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made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain: in 1492, 1493, 1498 and 1502. He was determined to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia
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Atlantic Ocean when he arrives at Calicut on the Malabar Coast. Da Gama sailed from Lisbon, Portugal, in July 1497, rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and anchored at Malindi on the east coast of Africa.
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It is a 5.17-metre (17.0 ft) [a] marble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the Biblical hero David, a favoured subject in the art of Florence.
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More's "Utopia" was written in Latin, and is in two parts, of which the second, describing the place ([Greek text]--or Nusquama, as he called it sometimes in his letters--"Nowhere"), was probably written towards the close of 1515; the first part, introductory, early in 1516.
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The painting, thought to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, is in oil on a white Lombardy poplar panel, and is believed to have been painted between 1503 and 1506. Leonardo may have continued working on it as late as 1517
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are widely regarded as the initial catalyst for the Protestant Reformation. The disputation protests against clerical abuses, especially nepotism, simony, usury, pluralism, and the sale of indulgences
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Commissioned in 1517 by Cardinal Giulio de' Medici (1478-1534) (of the Florentine Medici Family
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Niccoló Machiavelli wrote The Prince in 1513, but it wasn't published until 1532, five years after his death. This portrait of the author, by Santi di Tito, hangs in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy
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On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres) is the seminal work on the heliocentric theory of the Renaissance astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543).
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Date: 1992. The early English Reformation created an Anglican Church even more ... VIII (1504-1547). ... Protestant ideas concerning theology and ritual did not much ... executed, as were other Catholic dissidents, including the king's former.
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The title page from the 1559 edition of John Calvin's Institutio Christianae ... Calvin wrote five major Latin editions in his lifetime (1536, 1539, 1543, 1550, and ... is said of divine will and predestination, and to the later scholastics for teaching ...
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Edward's will was set aside and Mary became queen, deposing Lady Jane Grey. ... In 1558, Elizabeth succeeded her half-sister to the throne and set out to rule ...... that in the last decade of her life she began to believe her own performance
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the great English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare is born in Stratford-on-Avon on April 23, 1564
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North Carolina History Project : Roanoke Island. Roanoke Island. In 1584, 1585, and 1587, Sir Walter Raleigh funded expeditions to Roanoke Island (located on what is now called the Outer Banks).
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The Spanish Armada and English ships in August 1588, by unknown painter (English .... Philip II of Spain had been co-monarch of England until the death of his wife,
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Origin and naming[edit] Although named after Italian physicist Galileo Galilei, the thermometer described in this article was not invented by him. Galileo did invent a thermometer, called Galileo's air thermometer (more accurately termed a thermoscope), in or before 1603
