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Jan 1, 1449
Lorenzo de’ Medici is born.
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Jan 2, 1456
Gutenberg prints the first Bible
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Jan 3, 1480
Spanish Inquisition is introduced
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Jan 3, 1492
Columbus discovers the new world
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Jan 3, 1498
Vasco da Gama sails to India
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Jan 3, 1504
Michelangelo sculpts the David
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Jan 3, 1506
Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
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Jan 7, 1516
Thomas More writes Utopia
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Jan 3, 1517
Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church
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Jan 7, 1532
Niccolo Machiavelli writes the Prince
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Jan 15, 1532
John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion
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Jan 7, 1533
King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican Church
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Aug 15, 1534
Founding of the society of Jesus by Ignaitus of Loyola
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Jan 4, 1539
Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres
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Nov 17, 1558
Elizabeth I begins rule in England
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Apr 26, 1564
William Shakespeare is born.
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Sir Walter Raleigh tries to establish Roanoke
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King Phillip II of Spain assembles the Spanish Armada
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Rapheal paints the Transfiguration
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Galileo invents a thermometer
