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Jan 1, 1449
Birth of Lorenzo de’ Medici
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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 28, 1497
Vasco da Gama sails to India
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Jan 30, 1501
Michelangelo sculpts the David
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Jan 28, 1503
Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
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Jan 28, 1513
Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince
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Jan 28, 1516
Thomas More writes Utopia
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Jan 28, 1517
King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican church
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Oct 31, 1517
Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church
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Jan 28, 1523
Rapheal paints the Transfiguration
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Jan 28, 1536
. John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion
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Oct 23, 1541
Founding of the Society of Jesus by Ignatius of Loyola
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Jan 28, 1543
Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres
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May 1, 1558
King Phillip II of Spain assembles the Spanish Armada
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Jan 28, 1560
Elizabeth I begins rule in England
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Apr 23, 1564
William Shakespeare is born
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Sir Walter Raleigh tries to establish Roanoke (present day North Carolina
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Galileo invents a thermometer
