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Jan 1, 1449
Lorenzo de Medici
He was the patron of the arts -
Oct 31, 1451
Columbus
discovers new world -
Apr 15, 1452
Leonardo de Vinci
Paints the Mona Lisa -
Dec 28, 1460
Vasco da Gama
sails to India -
May 3, 1469
Niccolo Machiavelli
writes The Prince -
Feb 19, 1473
Nicolas Copernicus
publishes On the Revolution of the Celestical Spheres -
Mar 6, 1475
Michelangelo
sculpts the David -
Feb 7, 1478
Thomas More
Writes Utopia -
Nov 28, 1478
Spanish inquistion
Tortured people into becoming christians -
Nov 10, 1483
Martin Luther
posts 95 theses on the door of Castle Church -
Dec 1, 1483
Rapheal
Paints the Transfiguration -
Jun 28, 1491
King Henry VIII
begins protestant Anglician church -
Feb 3, 1498
Gutenberg
Prints the first bible -
Jul 10, 1509
John Calvin
publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion -
May 21, 1527
King Phillip II of Spain
assembles the Spanish Armada -
Sep 7, 1533
Elizabeth I
begins rule in England -
Aug 15, 1534
Founding of the Society of Jesus
The society is engaged in evangelization and apostolic ministry in 112 nations on six continents. -
Sep 29, 1554
Sir Walter Raleigh
tries to establish Roanoke -
Feb 29, 1564
Galileo
invents a thermometer -
Dec 28, 1564
William shakespeare
English poet , play writer and actor
