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Jan 3, 1449
Birth od Lorenzo de' Medici
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Jan 3, 1452
Gutenberg prints first Bible
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Jan 3, 1460
Vasco da Gama sails to India
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Jan 3, 1478
Spanish Inquisition is introduced
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Jan 3, 1492
Columbus discovers a new world
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Jan 3, 1504
Michelangelo sculpts the David
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Jan 3, 1505
Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince
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Jan 3, 1516
Thomas More writes Utopia
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Jan 3, 1517
Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of Castle Church
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Jan 3, 1519
Leonardo da Vinci paints Mona Lisa
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Jan 3, 1520
Rapheal paints the Transfiguration
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Jan 3, 1534
King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican church
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Jan 3, 1536
John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Chrstain Religion
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Jan 3, 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 3, 1558
Elizabeth I begins rule in England
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Jan 3, 1564
William Shakesspeare is born
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King Philip II of Spain assembles the Spanish Armada
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Galileo invents thermometer
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Sir Walter Raleigh tries to establish Roanoke (present day North Carolina)
