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- Sandro Botticelli
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- Venus, Spring
- 1444
- 1510
- Lorenzo de'Medici
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- 'The Magnificent' Florentine ruler & art patron
- 1449
- 1492
- Leonardo da Vinci
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- Model of the Renaissance man
- 1452
- 1519
- Savonarola
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- Italian reformer & orator; executed for heresy
- 1452
- 1498
- Henry VII
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- 1457
- 1509
- Machiavelli
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- Author of "The Prince"
- 1469
- 1527
- Michelangelo
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- Sculptor & painter: David, Sistine Chapel
- 1475
- 1564
- Leo X
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- Medici Pope & art patron
- 1475
- 1521
- Sir Thomas More
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- English Chancellor and writer
- 1478
- 1535
- Raphael
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- 1483
- 1520
- Martin Luther
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- Founder of the Lutheran Church
- 1483
- 1546
- Henry VIII
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- 1491
- 1547
- Cosimo de'Medici
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- "The Great"; Duke of Florence & Tuscany
- 1519
- 1574
- Elizabeth I
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- Gloriana: Queen of England 1558-1603
- 1533
- 1603
- Miguel Cervantes
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- Author of Don Quixote
- 1547
- 1616
- Sir Walter Raleigh
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- Courtier, navigator, statesman; executed
- 1552
- 1618
- Francis Bacon
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- 1561
- 1626
- William Shakespeare
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- Playwright & poet
- 1564
- 1616
- Galileo
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- Astronomer & scientist
- 1564
- 1642
- James I
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- King of England 1603-1625
- 1566
- 1625
- Johannes Kepler
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- Astronomer
- 1571
- 1610
- Gustavus Adolphus
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- King of Sweden
- 1594
- 1632
- Rene Descartes
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- 1596
- 1650
- Oliver Cromwell
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- Lord Protector of the English Commonwealth
- 1599
- 1658
- Charles I
- 3
- King of England ; beheaded for treason
- 1600
- 1649
- John Milton
- 4
- English poet
- 1608
- 1674
- Constantinople falls
- 3
- Ottoman siege conquers the Eastern Empire
- 1453
- New World
- 4
- Columbus arrives in the Americas
- 1492
- Magellan
- 3
- Magellan crosses the Pacific
- 1519
- Aztecs destroyed
- 4
- Cortez begins conquest of the Aztec Empire
- 1519
- Reformation
- 3
- Martin Luther outlawed -- Protestantism begins
- 1521
- Mohacs
- 3
- Ottoman Turks overrun Hungary
- 1526
- Inca Empire
- 4
- Pizarro begins conquest of Peru
- 1532
- Henry VIII & Rome
- 1
- Henry VIII breaks with the Roman Church
- 1534
- Wars of Religion
- 3
- In France (to 1599)
- 1562
- Lepanto
- 3
- End of Turkish seapower in central Medit.
- 1571
- Jamestown
- 4
- First English colony in America
- 1607
- Shogun
- 5
- Beginning of the Tkugawa shogunate in Japan
- 1609
- Dutch Republic
- 3
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- 1609
- Outbreak of 30 Years
- 3
- Start of the 30 Years War
- 1618
- Mayflower
- 4
- Puritans land in New England
- 1620
- New Amsterdam
- 4
- Dutch settle in the new world
- 1625
- Peace of Westphalia
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- End of the 30 Years War
- 1648
- Execution of Charles
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- Republic declared
- 1649
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