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Jan 1, 1449
Lorenzo de’ Medici was born
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Jan 7, 1454
Gutenberg prints the first Bible
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Nov 1, 1478
Spanish Inquizition is introduced.
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Aug 3, 1492
Columbus Discovers New World
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Jul 7, 1497
Vasco da Gama discoverds India
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Jan 7, 1503
Leonardo Da Vinci Paints the Mona Lisa
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Jan 7, 1504
Michelangelo Scuplts the David
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Jan 7, 1513
Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince
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Jan 7, 1516
Thomas More writes Utopia
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Jan 7, 1517
Martin Luther posts 95 These on door of the Castle Church
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Jan 7, 1520
Rapheal paints the Transfiguration
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Jan 7, 1527
King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican church
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Jan 7, 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 7, 1543
Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres
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Jan 7, 1558
Elizabeth I begins rule in England
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Apr 26, 1564
William Shakespeare is born
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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
