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when Lorenzo de' Medici was bornborn
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Lorenzo de' Medici's birthday
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Johann Gutenberg holds the distinction of being the inventor of the movable-type printing press. In 1455, Gutenberg produced what is considered to be the first book ever printed. It was a Latin language Bible, printed in Mainz, Germany.
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a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created in marble between 1501 and 1504 by artist Michelangelo.
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The painting is thought by many to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, and is in oil on a white Lombardy poplar panel.
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placed the sun at the center of the universe and argued that the Earth moved across the heavens as one of the planets.
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In 1516 the statesman and scholar Thomas More published a work describing an ideal island state – he called it Utopia. The name derives from the Greek but has a double meaning 'eutopia' (good place) or 'outopia' (no place).
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legend has it that the priest and scholar Martin Luther approaches the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, and nails a piece of paper to it containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation.
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The English Reformation was initially driven by the dynastic goals of Henry VIII, who, in his quest for a consort who would bear him a male heir, found it expedient to replace papal authority with the supremacy of the English crown.
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William Shakespeare's birthday
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Galileo Galilei invented a rudimentary water thermoscope, which for the first time, allowed temperature variations to be measured
