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Jan 1, 1449
Lorenzo de' Medici is born
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Jan 2, 1450
Gutenberg prints the first Bible
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Jan 2, 1480
Spanish Inquisition is introduced
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Jan 2, 1492
Christopher Columbus found the New World
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Jul 8, 1497
Vasco da Gama sails to India
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Jan 2, 1503
Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
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Jan 25, 1504
Michelangelo sculpts the "David"
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Jan 3, 1516
Rapheal paints the Transfiguration
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Jan 4, 1516
Thomas More writes Utopia
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Jan 2, 1517
Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church
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Jan 4, 1532
Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince
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Jan 4, 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 3, 1543
Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres
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Jan 17, 1559
Elizabeth I begins rule in England
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Jan 3, 1564
William Shakespeare is born
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Jan 4, 1570
King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican church
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Sir Walter Raleigh tries to establish Roanoke (present day North Carolina
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King Phillip II of Spain assembles the Spanish Armada
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Galileo invents a thermometer
