Renaissance

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  • Jan 4, 1445

    Gutenberg prints the first Bible

  • Jan 1, 1449

    Birth of Lorenzo de’ Medici

  • Jan 4, 1478

    Spanish Inquisition is introduced

  • Jan 4, 1492

    Columbus discovers the new world

  • Jan 4, 1498

    Vasco da Gama sails to India

  • Jan 4, 1504

    Michelangelo sculpts the David

  • Jan 4, 1506

    Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa

  • Jan 4, 1509

    Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres

  • Jan 5, 1513

    Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince

  • Jan 5, 1515

    Thomas More writes Utopia

  • Jan 4, 1517

    Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church

  • Jan 4, 1520

    Rapheal paints the Transfiguration

  • Jan 5, 1529

    King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican church

  • Jan 5, 1534

    Founding of the Society of Jesus by Ignatius of Loyola

  • Jan 5, 1536

    John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion

  • Jan 5, 1558

    Elizabeth I begins rule in England

  • Jan 4, 1564

    William Shakespeare is born

  • Sir Walter Raleigh tries to establish Roanoke (present day North Carolina)

  • King Phillip II of Spain assembles the Spanish Armada

  • Galileo invents a thermometer