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Lorenzo de' Medici was born in Florence on Jan. 1,1449. He was the son of piero the gouty and the grandson of cosimo, pater patriae. Cosimo, aware of his son piero's physical weaknees and fearful that piero would not long survive him, prudently groomed his grandson for the exercise of authority.
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In 1041, movable clay type was first invented in china. Johannes Gutenberg, a goldsmith, and businessman from the mining town of mainz in southern Germany, borrowed money to invent a technology that changed the world of printing
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Michelangelo was only twenty-six years old when he won the contract for david.
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All the members were required to do was to pass a brief statute which "ordained, established and enacted" that the crown "be, rest, remain abide in the most royal person of our now sovereign lord king henry vll and in the heirs of his body.
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Leonardo da Leonard Vinci began painting the Last
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The majestic ceiling frescoes adorning Rome's Sistine Chapel were unveiled to the public.
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Martin's 95 theses, which propounded two central beliefs -- that the bible is the central religious authority and the humans may reached salvation only by their faith and not by their deeds -- was to spark the Protestant Reformation.
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William Shakespeare built the global theater on June 29, 1599 in London.
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He had discovered for Europe the new world, whose riches over the next century.
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