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Jan 1, 1449
Birth of Lorenzo de' Medici
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Jan 1, 1455
Gutenberg prints the first Bible
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Jan 1, 1478
Spanish Inquisition is intoduced
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May 19, 1492
columbus discovers the new world
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May 19, 1498
vasco da gama sails to India
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May 19, 1503
Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
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May 19, 1503
Rapheal paints the Transfiguration
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May 19, 1504
Michelangelo sculpts the David
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May 19, 1513
Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince
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May 19, 1516
Thomas More writes Utopia
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Jan 1, 1517
Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church
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May 19, 1536
John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion
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May 19, 1556
Founding of the Society of Jesus by Ignatius of Loyola
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May 19, 1558
Elizabeth 1 begins rule in England
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May 19, 1564
William Shakespeare is born
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Sir Walter Raleigh tries to establish Roanoke(present day North Carolina
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King Phillip the 2nd of spain assembles the Spanish Armada
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Galileo invents a thermometer