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Period: May 5, 1430 to
Renaissance
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Jan 1, 1449
Lorenzo de' Medici is born
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Sep 30, 1456
Gutenburg prints the first Bible
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May 5, 1492
Columbus discovers new world
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May 5, 1498
Vasco da Gama sails to India
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May 5, 1501
Michaelangelo sculpts the David
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May 5, 1503
Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
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May 5, 1513
Niccolo Machiavelli writes "The Prince"
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May 5, 1516
Thomas More writes "Utopia"
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May 5, 1517
Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church
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May 5, 1520
Raphael paints the Transfiguration
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May 5, 1524
Spanish Inquisition introduced
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May 5, 1534
King Henry VII begins Protestant Anglican Church
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Aug 15, 1534
Founding of the Society of Jesus by Ignatius of Loyola
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May 5, 1536
John Calvin publishes "Institutes of the Christian Religion"
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May 24, 1543
Nicolas Copernicus publishes "On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres"
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Nov 17, 1558
Elizabeth I begins rule in England
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Apr 23, 1564
William Shakespeare is born
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Sir Walter Raleigh tries to estalish Roanoke
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King Phillip II of Spain assembles the Spanish Armada
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Galileo invents thermometer