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1450
Start of our course/our studies in the Renaissance
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1454
The Gutenberg Bible is published
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1487
Dias sailed around the Cape of Good Hope
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1492
Columbus sailed the ocean blue
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1503
Da Vinci finishes the Mona Lisa
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1504
Michelangelo finishes David
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1512
The Medici return to Florence
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1517
Martin Luther’s 95 Theses
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1519
Cortes conquers the Aztec empire
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1521
Diet of Worms (Luther excommunicated)
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1534
Jesuits are founded
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1543
Copernicus writes “On the Revolution of Heavenly Spheres”
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1543
Vesalius writes “De Humani Corporis Fabrica”
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1545
Council of Trent is founded
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Edict of Nantes (Huguenot protection)
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Jamestown is founded
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The French settle in modern-day Quebec
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Harvey writes "De Moto Cordis”
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End of 30 years war and Peace of Westphalia
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Newton writes “Optics”