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Jan 1, 1449
Birth of Lorenzo de’ Medici
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1455
Gutenberg prints the first Bible
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1504
Michelangelo completes the sculpture the David
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1516
Thomas More publishes Utopia
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Oct 31, 1517
Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg
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1519
Leonardo da Vinci completes his painting the Mona Lisa
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1530
King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican church
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1543
Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres
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Apr 23, 1564
William Shakespeare is born
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Galileo invents a thermometer