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Apr 19, 1348
Black Plague
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Apr 19, 1420
Medici hires Brunelleschi
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Apr 19, 1429
Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc French leader against British -
Apr 19, 1434
Medici bank
Family controls city/state of Florence -
Apr 19, 1453
Ottoman conquest of Constantinople
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Apr 19, 1455
Johann Gutenberg invents Printing Press
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Apr 19, 1478
Spanish Inquistion begins
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Apr 19, 1492
Columbus reached West Indies
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Apr 19, 1495
Leonardo da Vinci creates Last Supper
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Apr 19, 1509
King Henry VIII crowned
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Apr 19, 1512
Michelangelo finished ceiling of Sistine Chapel
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Apr 19, 1513
Niccolo Machiavelli writes "The Prince"
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Apr 19, 1517
Martin Luther posts 95 Theses
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Apr 19, 1527
Rome crushed by Charles V
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Apr 19, 1527
King Henry VIII divorces Catherine of Aragon
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Apr 19, 1534
King Henry VIII leds Church of England
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Apr 19, 1553
Queen Bloody Mary
kills Protestants -
Apr 19, 1558
Queen Elizabeth ascends throne
brings Protestant faith back -
Apr 19, 1564
Shakespeare born
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Apr 19, 1576
Globe Theatre
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Apr 19, 1580
Sir Francis Drake
circumnavigates the globe -
Jamestown founded
colonists seek religicus freedom -
Mayflower voyage