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Mar 4, 1450
Johannes Gutenburg
He became the first European to use moveable type to print books. Used his printing press to copies of the bible. -
Mar 4, 1475
Printing Press.
Printing Presses where operating in England, France, Germany, Italy, and several other European nations. The books that these printing presses produced helped spread new humanist ideas to a large audience. -
Mar 4, 1513
Niccolo Machiavelli.
He wrote the essay The Prince. He sought to describe government not in terms of lofty ideals but in a way that actually worked. -
Mar 4, 1516
Thomas More
More published The Utopia. He condemned goverments as corrupt and argued that private ownership of property causes unnecessary conflicts between people. -
Mar 4, 1517
Martin Luther challenged Tetzel.
Luther claimed that tetzel committed a grave error by asking people to give up money for false promises of forgiveness. He posted 95 theses, or statements, about indulgences on a church door. -
Mar 4, 1521
Luther declared a heretic.
Pope Leo X declared Luther a heretic. He excommunicated Luther from the Roman Catholic Church. -
Mar 4, 1528
Baldassare Castiglione.
He published a book that was probably the most famous of the renaissance. The Book of the Courtier. He used real people engaged in fictional conversations to explain how gentlemen and gentlewomen should act in polite society. -
Mar 4, 1536
John Calvin
He founded a Protestant Church that had a strong following. He also formulated and published a complete and clear set of religious beliefs, The Institutes of Christian Religion. -
King Henry IV
He issused the Edict of Nantes. The proclimation gave the Huguenots freedom of worship and some political rights. -
Calvinist Churches.
They were established in parts of Europe. In these areas the strength of the Calvinists among the nobility persuaded the rulers to change their views.
