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Jan 1, 1449
Birth of Lorenzo de Medici
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Jan 7, 1454
Gutenburg prints the first Bible
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Nov 1, 1478
Spanish Inquisition
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Aug 3, 1492
Columbus discovers the new world
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May 20, 1498
Vasco da Gama sails to India
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Jan 7, 1504
Michelangelo scuplts the David
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Feb 25, 1513
Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince
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Jan 11, 1516
Thomas More writes Utopia
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Jan 7, 1517
Martin Luther posts 95 thesis
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Feb 10, 1517
Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
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Apr 6, 1520
Rapheal paints the Transfiguration
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Aug 8, 1529
King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican church
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Aug 27, 1536
John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion
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Sep 27, 1540
Founding of the Society of Jesus by Ignatius of Loyola
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Feb 15, 1543
Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres
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Jan 15, 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
