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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Renaissance
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Jan 1, 1449
Birth of Lorenzo De Medici
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Jan 1, 1480
Spanish Inquisition is introduced
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Jan 1, 1492
Columbus discovers the new world
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May 20, 1500
Sir Walter Raleigh tries to establish Roanoke (Present day North Carolina)
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May 20, 1501
Michelangelo sculpts the David
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May 20, 1502
Vasco de Gama sails to India
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May 20, 1503
Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
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May 20, 1516
Rapheal paints the Transfiguration
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May 20, 1516
Thomas More writes Utopia
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May 20, 1517
Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church
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May 20, 1532
Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince
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Jan 1, 1535
Gutenberg prints the first Bible
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May 20, 1535
King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican church
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May 20, 1536
John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion
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May 20, 1540
Founding of the Society of Jesus by Ignatius of Loyola
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May 20, 1543
Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres
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May 20, 1558
Elizabeth I begins rule in England
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May 20, 1564
William Shakespeare was born
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King Philip II of Spain assembles the Spanish Armada
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Galileo invents the thermometer