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Period: Jan 1, 1450 to
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Oct 1, 1450
Gutenberg's Printing press
newsA printing press is a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink. Typically used for texts, the invention of the printing press is widely regarded as one of the most influential events in the second millennium -
Oct 12, 1492
columbus lands in the americas
He was determined to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia and traveled in 1492, 1493, 1498 and 1502. But discovered the americas -
Feb 12, 1497
Da Gma Voyage to india
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Was about a guy named Vasco da Gama who was tring to find new trading rounts for africa and inda. This is important because he was trying to find a new trading rount,the first person to successfully sail around europe past africa into south east asia -
Sep 1, 1503
da vinci's Mona lisa
wikiThe painting, thought to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. But Leonardo da Vinci began painting the Mona Lisa in 1503 or 1504 in Florence, Italy. -
Sep 8, 1504
michelangelo's David statue
WIKIIt is a 5.17-metre (17.0 ft) marble statue of a standing male nude.It represents a soilder in battle victorious over the head of Goliath. But was avery idolized painting that is worth millions in our society. -
Aug 25, 1517
Luthers 95 theses
WIKIthis event was very impotant to our history it helped people find there religion. Martin wrote these thesis statments to open the publics eyes. it happened in 1517 written by Martin Luther and are widely regarded as the initial catalyst for the Protestant Reformation. Was posted on the door of the Castle Church of Wittenberg, according to university custom. -
Aug 13, 1521
Cortez conquers the Aztecs
wikiThe Spanish campaign began in February 1519, and was declared victorious on August 13, 1521, when a coalition army of Spanish forces and native Tlaxcalan warriors led by Hernán Cortés and Xicotencatl the Younger captured the emperor Cuauhtemoc and Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec Empire. -
Oct 1, 1532
Machiavelli writes the prince
The prince is a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli -
Oct 1, 1545
council of trent
The Council of Trent (Latin: Concilium Tridentinum), held between 1545 and 1563 in Trento (Trent) and Bologna, northern Italy, was one of the Roman Catholic Church's most important ecumenical councils. Its a council that makes all the religous decisions for the pope -
Apr 23, 1564
Shakespeares born
wikiThis was the birth of the a famous poem and director of dozens of plays.Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part-owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlain's Men, later known as the King's Men. He appears to have retired to Stratford around 1613, at age 49, where he died three years later
