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1454 John Gutenberg prints the Gutenberg Bible.
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Gutenberg invented this a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink. Typically used for texts, the invention of the printing press is widely regarded as one of the most influential events in the second millennium, ushering in the period of modernity printing press.
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Fall of the Constantinople of the Turks.
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John Gutenberg prints the Gutenberg Bible.
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French ships in retaliation for French attacks on Portuguese shipping interests. Columbus, and most others, underestimated the world’s size, calculating that East Asia must lie approximately where North America sits on the globe (they did not yet know that the Pacific Ocean existed).
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Excecution of Girolamo Savanarla for his critisisim of the corruption of the church.
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By the time Vasco da Gama returned from his first voyage to India in 1499, he had spent more than two years away from home, including 300 days at sea, and had traveled some 24,000 miles. French ships in retaliation for French attacks on Portuguese shipping interests.
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he was already the most famous and best paid artist in his days. He accepted the challenge with enthusiasm to sculpt a large scale David and worked constantly for over two years to create one of his most breathtaking masterpieces of gleaming white marble.
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The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world.
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Martin Luther publication is 95 theses at Witenberg, beginning of the protestant Reformation. The Ninety-Five Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences were written by Martin Luther in 1517 and 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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declared victorious on August 13, 1521, when a coalition army of Spanish forces and native Tlaxcalan warriors led by Hernán Cortés and Xicotencatl the Younger captured the emperor Cuauhtemoc and Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire.
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Sir Thomas More excecuted by order of Henery VIII
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Church's most important ecumenical councils. Prompted by the Protestant Reformation, it has been described as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation.
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Beginning of the region of elizabeth.
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Lorenzo de Meakl reules florence.
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William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, actor and an Italophile, who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
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Philosopher and astronomer Giordano Bruno burned at the stake by the Roman Inquisition.
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William Shakespear Hamlet was made.
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In 1810, a letter by Machiavelli was discovered in which he reveals that he wrote The Prince in efforts to endear himself to the ruling Medici family in Florence. To liberate Italia from the influence of foreign governments, Machiavelli explains that strong indigenous governments are important, even if they are absolutist.
