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Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press
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Ottoman conquest of Constantinople: many Greek thinkers and works travel westward, seen as a moment of massive cultural transfer between east and west; end of Hundred Years War: stability returns to northwest Europe
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Johan Gutenburg prints the Gutenburg Bible
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Rules over Florence
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Ferdinand and Issabella's marriage unite the kingdoms of Aragon and Castile
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Sandro Boticelli paints the famous Prima Vera
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King Henry Becomes King
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Columbus lands in the New World
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The Last Supper completed by Leonardo DaVinci
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Vasco Da Gama discovers a route from Portugal to India
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Michelangelo creates the David Sculpture
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Mona Lisa Completed by Leonardo DaVinci
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Raphael paints the School of Athens
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Michelangelo completes the Sistine Chapel ceiling
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Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince about early views of modern Political Theory
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Sir Thomas Moore publishes Utopia
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Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses
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Start of the Reformation. This religious schism divides Europe spiritually permanently, and is heavily influenced by Humanist thinking, a mark of the Renaissance.
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Leonardo DaVinci Dies
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First trip around the world.
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Henry Vll breaks from the Catholic Church and creates the Church of England
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Nicolaus Copernicus publishes a book on heliocentric universe
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Elizabeth l is crowned Queen of England
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Creating the powerful Bourbon Dynasty
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Shakespeare Writes Hamlet
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Miguel De Cervantes publishes Don Quixote, it is considered the most influential work of literature from the Spanish Golden Age and the entire Spanish literary canon. As a founding work of modern Western literature
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Johannes Kepler is a key figure in the 17th-century scientific revolution. He is best known for his laws of planetary motion, based on his works Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitome of Copernican Astronomy. These works also provided one of the foundations for Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation.
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Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) published Sidereus Nuncius, or the 'Starry Messenger' in 1610. In it he provided a lively and accessible account of his telescopic work.
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Sir Isaac Newton establishes the law of motion
