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  • galileo invented thermometer
    1593 BCE

    galileo invented thermometer

    made of a sealed glass cylinder containing a clear liquid and several glass vessels of varying density.
  • william shakespeare is born
    1564 BCE

    william shakespeare is born

    Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom
  • john calvin institutes of the christian religion
    1536 BCE

    john calvin institutes of the christian religion

    Institutes of the Christian Religion is John Calvin's seminal work of Protestant systematic theology.
  • founding of the society of jesus by ignatius of loyola
    1534 BCE

    founding of the society of jesus by ignatius of loyola

    The first Jesuits–Ignatius and six of his students–took vows of poverty and chastity and made plans to work for the conversion of Muslims.
  • niccolo machiavelli the prince
    1532 BCE

    niccolo machiavelli the prince

    a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli.
  • martin luther posts 95 theses on the door to castle church
    1517 BCE

    martin luther posts 95 theses on the door to castle church

    a piece of paper to it containing the 95 revolutionary opinions that would begin the Protestant Reformation.
  • michelangelo sculpts the david
    1504 BCE

    michelangelo sculpts the david

    The story of David and Goliath is a biblical one, found in Book 1 Samuel. The teenage David had to defeat the giant Goliath, he could not be defeated by strength since David was smaller. It took cunning and skill to defeat someone bigger than him, and he did so with the slingshot.
  • columbus discovers the new world
    1492 BCE

    columbus discovers the new world

  • gutenberg prints the first bible
    1455 BCE

    gutenberg prints the first bible

    The Gutenberg Bible was among the earliest major books printed using mass-produced movable metal type in Europe.It marked the start of the "Gutenberg Revolution" and the age of printed books in the West.
  • birth of lorenzo de' Medici
    1449 BCE

    birth of lorenzo de' Medici

    Italian statesman
  • Period: 1300 BCE to 1600 BCE

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  • leonardo da vinci paints the mona lisa
    1504

    leonardo da vinci paints the mona lisa

  • nicolaus copernicus publishes on the revolutions of heavenly spheres
    1543

    nicolaus copernicus publishes on the revolutions of heavenly spheres

    the seminal work on the heliocentric theory of the Renaissance astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus