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Jan 1, 1449
Lorenzo Medici was born!
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Jan 1, 1455
Gutenberg prints the first bible!
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Nov 1, 1478
Spanish Inquisition is introduced!
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Oct 1, 1492
Columbus discovers the new world!
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Jul 1, 1497
Vasco da Gama sails to India!
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Jan 1, 1501
Michelangelo sculpts the David!
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Jan 1, 1503
Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa!
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Jan 1, 1513
Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince!
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Jan 1, 1516
Rapheal paints the Transfiguration!
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Jan 1, 1516
Thomas More writes Utopia!
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Oct 31, 1517
Martin Luther posted 95 theses
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Jan 1, 1529
King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican church!
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Jan 1, 1536
John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion!
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Apr 19, 1541
Founding of the Society of Jesus by Ignatius of Loyola!
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Jan 1, 1543
Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres!
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Apr 26, 1564
William Shakespeare is born!
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Jan 1, 1574
Elizabeth I begins rule in England!
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Sir Walter Raleigh tries to establish Roanoke!
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King Phillip II of Spain assembles the Spanish Armada!
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Galileo invents a thermometer!
