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Dante Alighieri was born.
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Alighieri died
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Jan van Eyck was born.
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Johannes Gutenberg was born.
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-Jan van Eyck finishes The Adoration of the Lamb.
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Jan van Eyck died.
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Pope Nicholas V appointed as the new Pope. He begins a major program of rebuilding.
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Johannes Gutenberg wrote the first Bible in Latin.
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Johannes Gutenberg died.
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Niccolò Machiavelli was born.
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Lorenzo de Medici became ruler of Florence.
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Michelangelo was born.
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Martin Luther was born.
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-Christopher Columbus set sail, hence the riddle "In 1492 Columbus sails the ocean blue."
-In the command of three ships- the Pinta, Nina, and Santa Maria- he set sail to find a western sea rote to China, Inda and spice island of Asia. -
Leonardo da Vinci completed The Last Super in Milan, Italy.
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Niccolò Machiavelli completes The Prince.
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-The Catholic Church offered indulgences to people to collect more money, promising that their relatives' and their souls will be saved into heaven.
-Martin Luther saw corruption in the church and constructed his 95 Theses.
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Leonardo de Vinci was born.
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Leonardo de Vinci died.
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After years of the church asking Luther to take down his 95 Theses and his continuous refusal, Pope Leo X excommunicated Luther from the church.
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King Henry VIII requested an annulment from his wife because she gave him a daughter and no sons to pass the throne to. His annulment was refused.
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Niccolò Machiavelli died.
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Michelangelo completed the fresco The Last Judgement in the Sixtine Chapel.
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King Edward was crowned king after the death of his father. He was 9 at the time and had any older sisters who were skipped over and denied the crown because the boy was first in line of the crown.
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Edward died and his oldest half-sister Mary becomes queen. Her cruel was towards non-christians causes chaos and she earns the nickname "Bloody Mary".
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Peace of Augustberg ended the religious warfare in Germany.
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Queen Mary died at the age of 25 and he sister becomes queen.
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Michelangelo died.
