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Invented the movable printer press
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Found the gold coast
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Discovered the southern tip of Africa and rounded the Cape of Good Hope.
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Set out from Europe to America on a voyage to the unknown.
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He made the Renaissance sculpture "David" in 1501
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Made the Mona Lisa
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Theory of a heliocentric solar system
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Translated the New Testament into Greek in 1516
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Pinned the 95 Theses to the door of the Catholic Church attacking the church's practice of selling indulgences
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Portugese explorer, Ferdinand Magellan, set out from Spain in search of fame and fortune. With a fleet of 5 ships they went to discover a western sea route to the Spice Islands.
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The Aztecs drove the Spanish from the city, but Cortes returned again to defeat them and take the city in 1521
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In 1532, accompanied by his brothers, Pizarro overthrew the Inca leader Antahualpa and conquered Peru. 3 years later, he founded the new capital city of Lima
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Broke with the church and married Anne Boleyn in a secret ceremony. He was excommunicated by the church by the Pope. The English Reformation had begun.
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Set sail on April 20, 1534. He explored the west coast of Newfoundland, discovered Prince Edward Island, and sailed through the Gulf of St. Lawrence, past Anticosti Island.
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Founded the Jesuit movement
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Published the "Institutes of the Christian Religion", an early attempt to standardize the theories of Protestism
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Became Queen of England
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Circumnavigated the globe
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Shakespeare believed by most academics to have written his very first play in 1590
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Published first part of Don Quixote in 1605
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DIscovered that the planets move around the sun in orbits shaped like eclipses
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Discovered the four most massive moons of Jupiter.
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Discovered the circulation of blood within the body.
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Became king of England.
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Became King of France aged 5 on the death of his father, Louis XIII.
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Cromwell was one of the key men in the planning, training, and leading of the New Model Army.
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Best known for his political philosophy, especially as articulated in his masterpiece Leviathan
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Myth that he was sitting under an apple tree when a fruit fell and hit him on the head, inspiring him to suddenly come up with the theory of gravity
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Wrote an Essay on Toleration in which he argued that Protestant Dissenters who objected to some aspects of Anglican worship should have full civil rights
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Signed a treaty with King Louis XIV in which he agreed to convert to Catholicism and support France's war against the Dutch in return for subsidies.
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Signed the charter for a "perpetual College of Divinity, Philosophy, Languages, and other good Arts and Sciences" to be founded in the Virginia Colony.
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Established the city of St. Petersburg on the Neva River and moved the capital there from its former location in Moscow.
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Published what is considered his most important work, The Spirit of Laws
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Invaded Saxony and started the Seven Years War with his ally, Great Britain.
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Published Candide simultaneously in five countries no later then January 1759
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Wrote the Social Contract. The Social Contract argued against the idea that monarchs were divinely empowered to legislate
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On May 10, 1774, Louis Auguste became Louis XVI, with the death of his grandfather Louis XV
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After seizing political power in France in a 1799 coup d'etat, he crowned himself emperor in 1804
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Painted Liberty Leading the People which commemorates the July Revolution of 1830