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1547 BCE
King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican church
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1536 BCE
John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion
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1535 BCE
Thomas More writes Utopia
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1513 BCE
Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince
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Mar 6, 1444
Gutenberg printed the first bible
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Jan 1, 1449
The birth of Medici
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Dec 7, 1473
Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres
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Nov 1, 1478
when was Spanish Inquisition introduced
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Aug 3, 1492
Columbus discovers the new world
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Jul 6, 1497
Vasco da Gama sails to India
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Dec 6, 1503
Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
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Sep 8, 1504
Michelangelo sculpts the David
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Oct 31, 1517
Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church
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Sep 7, 1533
Elizabeth I begins rule in England
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Dec 6, 1534
Raphael paints the Transfiguration
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Sep 27, 1540
Founding of the Society of Jesus by Ignatius of Loyola
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Apr 7, 1564
William Shakespeare is born
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Dec 7, 1575
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
