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Jan 1, 1449
Lorenzo de Medici was born
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Jan 5, 1450
Gutenberg prints the first Bible
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Jan 2, 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, 1501
Michelangelo sculpts the David
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Jan 3, 1504
Leonarda da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
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Jan 3, 1513
Niccolo Machiavelli writes the prince
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Jan 3, 1516
Raphael paints the Transfiguration
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Jan 3, 1516
Thomas More writes Utopia
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Jan 10, 1517
Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church
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Jan 3, 1534
Founding of the Society of the Jesus by ignatius of loyola
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Jan 3, 1536
John Calvin publishes institues of the christsian religion
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Jan 3, 1543
Nicolaus Copernicus publishes on revolution of the Celestial Spheres
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Jan 3, 1558
Elizabeth I begins rule in England
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Jan 3, 1564
William shakespeare is born
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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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Sir walter raleigh tries to establish Roanoke
