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Jan 1, 1449
Birth of Lorenzo de' Medici
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Period: Jan 1, 1450 to Jan 1, 1455
Gutenberg prints the first Bible
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Oct 17, 1483
Spanish Inquisition is introduced
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Oct 12, 1492
Colombus discovers the New World
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Jan 1, 1501
Michelangelo sculpts the David
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Feb 12, 1502
Vasco da Gama sails to India
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Period: Jan 1, 1503 to Jan 1, 1506
Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
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Jan 1, 1512
Rapheal paints the Transfiguration
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Jan 1, 1514
Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince
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Jan 1, 1516
King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican Church
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Jan 1, 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 1, 1534
Founding of the Society of Jesus by Ignatius of Loyola
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Jan 1, 1536
John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion
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Mar 1, 1543
Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres
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Jan 1, 1563
Galileo invents a thermometer
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Apr 1, 1564
William Shakespeare is born
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King Phillip II of Spain assembles the Spanish Armada
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Sir Walter Raleigh tries to establish Roanoke (present-day North Carolina)
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Elizabeth I begins rule in England