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Jan 3, 1460
Vasco da Gama sails to india
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Jan 3, 1492
Columbus discovers the new world
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Jan 3, 1499
Birth of Lorenzo de' Medici
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Jan 3, 1501
Spanish Inquistition is introduced
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Jan 3, 1504
Michelangelo sculpts the david
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Jan 8, 1505
niccolo machiavelli writes the prince
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Jan 8, 1516
thomas more writes utopia
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Jan 3, 1517
Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church
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Jan 3, 1519
Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
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Jan 3, 1520
Rapheal paints the transfiguration
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Jan 8, 1536
john calvin publishes institutes of the christian religion
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Jan 8, 1540
founding of the society of jesus by ignatius of loyola
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Jan 3, 1543
Nicolas Copernicus publishes on the revolution of the celestial spheres
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Jan 8, 1558
elizabeth I begins rule of england
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Jan 3, 1564
William Shakespeare is born
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King Phillip II of Spain assembles the spanish armada
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Galileo invents a thermometer
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Sir Walter Raleigh tries to established Roanoke present day North Carolina)
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Gutenberg prints the first Bible
