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Cosimo begans his control of Florence
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The dome on the Florence Cathedral is completed.
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Leonardo da Vinci is born
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The Gutenburg Bible was the first book to be printed with moveable type.
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Machiavelli's The Prince is written.
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Martin Luther displayed his 95 theses on the door of the church in Wittenburg.
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Martin Luther is excommunicated from the catholic church.
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England starts their own church with the Act of supremacy.
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The council of Trent was started by Pope Paul lll.
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Queen Mary l starts to persecute Protestants as she is a Catholic.