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Jan 1, 1449
Birth of Lorenzo de Medici
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Aug 3, 1449
Columbus discovers the new world
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Dec 7, 1450
Gutenberg prints the first bible
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Nov 1, 1478
Spanish inquisition is introduced
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Jun 28, 1491
King Henry VIII begins protestant anglican church
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Jul 1, 1497
Vasco de Gama sails to India
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Dec 7, 1503
Michelangelo sculpts the David
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Dec 7, 1503
Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
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Apr 7, 1513
Niccolo Machiavelli writes the prince
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Dec 7, 1516
Thomas Moore writes utopia
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Oct 31, 1517
Martin Luther post 95 Theses on the door of castle church
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Dec 7, 1520
Raphael finish the Transfiguration
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Sep 7, 1533
Elizabeth I begins rule in england
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Dec 7, 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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Dec 7, 1543
Nicolas Copernicus publishes on the revolution of the Celestial spheres
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Sir Walter Raleigh tries to establish Roanoke (present day north carolina)
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King Philip II of Spain assembles the Spanish Armada
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Galileo invents a thermometer
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