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Jan 1, 1449
Birth of Lorenzo de' Medici
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Mar 7, 1450
Gutenberg prints the first Bible
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Jan 9, 1469
Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince
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Jan 8, 1473
Nicolas Copernicus publishes On The Revolution
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Jan 6, 1478
Spanish inquisition was introduced
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Jan 6, 1492
Columbus discovers the new world
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Jan 6, 1497
Vasco da Gama sails to India
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Jan 6, 1501
Michelangelo sculpts The David
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Jan 6, 1503
Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
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Jan 9, 1516
Thomas More writes Utopia
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Oct 31, 1517
Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church
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Jan 7, 1520
Rapheal paints the Transfiguration
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Jan 9, 1534
King Henry V111 begins Protestant Anglican church
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Jan 9, 1541
Founding of the Society of Jesus by Ignatius of Loyola
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Jan 9, 1563
John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christain Religion
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Apr 26, 1564
William Shakespeare is born
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Jan 9, 1574
Elizabeth i begins rule in England
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Sir Walter Raleigh tries to establish Roanoke
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King Phillip 11 of Spain assembles the Spanish Armada
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Galileo invents a thermometer
