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1517 BCE
Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church
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Jan 1, 1449
Birth of Medici
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Mar 9, 1455
Gutenberg prints the first bible
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Apr 13, 1473
Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres
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Nov 1, 1478
Spanish Inquisition is introduced
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Aug 3, 1492
Columbus discovers the new world
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Jul 12, 1497
Vasco da Gama sails to India
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May 30, 1501
Michelangelo sculpts the David
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Dec 20, 1503
Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
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Jun 17, 1516
homas More writes Utopia
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Dec 6, 1516
Rapheal paints the Transfiguration
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Feb 1, 1529
King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican church
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Sep 7, 1533
Elizabeth I begins rule in England
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Sep 19, 1536
john Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion
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Apr 17, 1564
William Shakespeare is born
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Sir Walter Raleigh tries to establish Roanoke (present day North Carolina
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King Phillip II of Spain assembles the Spanish Armada
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Galileo invents a thermometer
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Founding of the Society of Jesus by Ignatius of Loyola
