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Period: Jan 5, 1300 to
Renessaince
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Jan 5, 1445
Gutenberg prints the frist Bible
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Jan 1, 1449
Birth of Lorenzo de Medici
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Jan 7, 1478
Spanish Inquisition is introduced
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Oct 12, 1492
Columbus discovers the new world
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Jul 8, 1497
Vasco da Gama sails to India
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Jun 7, 1501
Michelangelo sculpts the David
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Jan 7, 1503
Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa
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Jan 7, 1513
Niccolo Machiavelli writes The Prince
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Jan 7, 1516
Thomas More writes Utopia
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Jan 7, 1516
Raphael paints the Transfiguration
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Oct 31, 1517
Martin Luther posts 95 Theses; Door of Castle Church
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Jan 7, 1531
King Henry VIII begins Protestant Anglican church
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Jan 7, 1536
John Calvin publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion
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Apr 19, 1541
Founding of the Society of Jesus by Ignatius of Loyola
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Jan 7, 1543
Nicolaus Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres
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Jan 7, 1558
Elizabeth I begins rule in England
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Apr 26, 1564
William Shakespeare is born
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Sir Walter Raleigh tries to establish Roanoke (present day North Carolina
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King Philip II of Spain assembles the Spanish Armada
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Galileo invents a thermometer
