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Period: Jan 1, 1300 to
Pearson- Renaissance Timeline
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Jan 1, 1449
Birth of Lorenzo de' Medici
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Jan 1, 1454
Gutenberg Prints First Bible
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Jan 1, 1478
Spanish Inquisition is introduced
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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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Jun 15, 1501
Michaelangelo begins sculpting the David
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May 31, 1503
Leonardo da Vinci begins on
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Jan 27, 1516
Thomas Moore writes Utopia
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Oct 31, 1517
Martin Luther posts 95 Theses on door of Castle Church
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Oct 8, 1518
Raphael paints the Transfiguration
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Nov 16, 1532
Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince
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Mar 9, 1534
King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican Church
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Mar 20, 1536
John Calvin writes Institutes of the Christian Religion
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Sep 27, 1540
Ignatius of Loyola founds the Society of Jesus
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Apr 11, 1543
Nicolas Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres
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Nov 17, 1558
Elizabeth I comes to power
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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 the thermometer
