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Jan 1, 1449
Lorenzo Medici is born.
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Oct 22, 1455
Gutenberg prints the first Bible.
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Nov 1, 1478
The Spanish Inquisition is introduced.
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Oct 12, 1492
Christopher Columbus discovers a "new world."
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Apr 24, 1498
Vasco de Gama sails to India.
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Jan 6, 1501
Michelangelo sculpts David.
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Jan 6, 1503
Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
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Dec 10, 1515
Thomas More writes Utopia.
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Jan 6, 1516
Rapael paints the Transfiguration.
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Oct 31, 1517
Martin Luther posts the 95 theses.
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Jan 8, 1532
Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince
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Jan 1, 1534
King Henry VIII begins the protestant Anglican Church.
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Jan 8, 1536
John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion
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Sep 27, 1540
Founding of the Society of Jesus by Ignatius of Loyola.
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Jan 6, 1543
Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres.
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Nov 17, 1558
Elizabeth I begins her rule in England.
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Apr 26, 1564
William Shakespeare is born
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Sir Walter Raleigh tries to establish the Roanoke Colony.
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King Phillip II of Spain assembles the Spanish Armada.
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Galileo invents a thermometer
