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Jan 2, 1449
Birth of Lorenzo de' Medici
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Jan 2, 1454
Gutenberg prints the first bible
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Jan 2, 1478
Spanish Inquisition is introduced
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Jan 3, 1492
Columbus discovers new world
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Jan 3, 1498
Vasco da Gama sails to India
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Jan 3, 1504
Michelangelo sculpts the David
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Jan 3, 1506
Leonardo da Vinci paints Mona Lisa
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Jan 3, 1509
Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Fields
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Jan 3, 1513
Niccolo Machiavelli writes the Prince
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Jan 3, 1515
Thomas More writes Utopia
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Jan 2, 1517
Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church
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Jan 3, 1520
Rapahael paints Transfiguration
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Jan 3, 1529
King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglician church
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Jan 3, 1534
Founding of the Society of Jesus by Ignatius of Loyola
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Jan 3, 1536
John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christian religion
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Jan 3, 1558
Elizabeth I begins rule in England
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Jan 3, 1564
William Shakesphere is born
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Sir Walter Raleigh tries to establish Roanoke
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King Philip II of n assembles the Spanish Armada
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Galilieo and themometer
