Renaissance By serena.gravil May 6, 1449 Birth of Lorenzo de' Medici May 6, 1450 Gutenberg prints the first Bible May 6, 1492 Columbus discovers new world May 6, 1498 Vasco da Gama sails to India May 6, 1501 Michelangelo sculpts David May 6, 1503 Leonardo da Vinci paints Mona Lisa May 6, 1513 Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince May 6, 1516 Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church May 6, 1516 Rapheal paints the Transfiguration May 6, 1516 Thomas More writes Utopia May 6, 1522 Founding of Society of Jesus by Ignatius of Loyola May 6, 1524 Spanish Inquistion introduced May 6, 1535 King Henry II Begins Protestant Angelic Church May 6, 1544 Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres May 6, 1558 Elizabeth I begins rule in England May 6, 1559 John Calvin Publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion May 6, 1586 Sir Walter Raleigh tries to establish Roanoke May 6, 1588 King Phillip II of Spain assembles the Spanish Armada May 6, 1592 William Shakespeare born May 6, 1593 Galileo invents a thermometer