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1593 BCE
galileo invented thermometer
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1564 BCE
william shakespeare is born
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1536 BCE
john calvin institutes of the christian religion
Institutes of the Christian Religion is John Calvin's seminal work of Protestant systematic theology. -
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. -
1532 BCE
niccolo machiavelli the prince
a 16th-century political treatise by the Italian diplomat and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. -
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. -
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. -
1492 BCE
columbus discovers the new world
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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. -
1449 BCE
birth of lorenzo de' Medici
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Period: 1300 BCE to 1600 BCE
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1504
leonardo da vinci paints the mona lisa
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1543
nicolaus copernicus publishes on the revolutions of heavenly spheres
the seminal work on the heliocentric theory of the Renaissance astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus
