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A ship came from the Crimea and Asia and docked in Messina, Sicily. Aboard the ship were not only sailors but rats. The rats brought with them the Black Death, the bubonic plague.

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This is a period In a time when the Europeans made a transition from the middle ages to modern times.

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Brunelleschi creates Linear Perspective Jan 1, 1413

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Brunelleschi creates Linear Perspective Jan 1, 1413

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Brunelleschi created linear perspective which allows art to have depth. This revolutionized art.

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Joan of Arc and the Siege of Orleans Jan 1, 1429

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Joan of Arc and the Siege of Orleans Jan 1, 1429

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The first military victory and was a turning point in the England and France 100 year war.

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Gutenburg Bible was printed October 22, 1454

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Gutenburg Bible was printed October 22, 1454

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The Gutenberg Bible was printed in Mainz in 1455 by Johann Gutenberg and his associates, Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer. Only 48 copies are known to have survived, of which 12 are printed on vellum and 36 on paper.

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The Spainish Inquistion begins Jan 1, 1478

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The Spainish Inquistion begins Jan 1, 1478

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A inquisition made to root out all non Catholics. Is one of the most deadly inquisitions.

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Columbus discovery would lead to the creation of the Americas 100 years later, which would lead to the western world as we know.

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da Vinci paints The Last Supper Jan 1, 1495

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da Vinci paints The Last Supper Jan 1, 1495

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An eight-meter-wide painting is a copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper depicting the part of the Bible where Jesus announces at dinner that one of his 12 loyal disciples will betray him before sunrise.

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Michelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel January 1, 1512

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Michelangelo paints the Sistine Chapel January 1, 1512

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Forced into painting by the Pope, Michelangelo painted 9 scenes from the old testament onto the ceiling and walls of the Sistine Chapel.

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By posting his problems with the church on the church door, he became excommunicated from the catholic church: he created the from of Christianity we know as protestant.

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Ivan the terrible is born January 1, 1533

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Ivan the terrible is born January 1, 1533

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Ivan conquered large amounts of territory transforming Russia into a multienthnic country. He became the first Tsar of Russia.

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Start of the European Wars of religion Jan 1, 1524

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Start of the European Wars of religion Jan 1, 1524

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The wars were fought between Catholics and Protestants. The religious wars were cause by the Protestant Reformation in western and northern Europe.

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The scientific revoultion was an era in which new ideas like physics, chemistry, medicine and biology formed and paved the way for modern science.

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Saint Bartholomew 's Massacre Jan 1, 1572

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Saint Bartholomew 's Massacre Jan 1, 1572

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It is presumed that the Massacre started because of King Charles the IX's sister Margret married the Protestant King Henry the IV. This made mobs of French Catholics killed Protestants during the French Religious Wars.

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Henri IV issues the Edict of Nantes, ending the Wars of Religion

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Henri IV issues the Edict of Nantes, ending the Wars of Religion

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Issued by King Henry the IV of France it gave non catholics in France civil rights. This marked the end of the religious wars in France, and the end of the renaissance.