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Date |
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| 1 | 1503 | - 1503: Leonardo da Vinci paints the Mona Lisa; Michelangelo sculpts the David (1504)
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| 2 | 1509 | - 1509: Michelangelo begins painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
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| 3 | 1513 | - 1513: Machiavelli's The Prince
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| 4 | 1517 | - 1517: Martin Luther initiates Reformation in Germany
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| 5 | 1520 | - 1520: Suleiman I "the Magnificent" presides over the Ottoman Empire's greatest period
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| 6 | 1522 | - 1522: Magellan's expedition circumnavigates the globe
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| 7 | 1527 | - 1527: End of the Italian Renaissance
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| 8 | 1535 | - 1535: Jacques Cartier sails up the St Lawrence River, basis of French claims to Canada
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| 9 | 1536 | - 1536: Henry VIII executes second wife, Anne Boleyn
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| 10 | 1543 | - 1543: Polish scholar Nicholas Copernicus postulates that the earth revolves around the sun
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| 11 | 1547 | - 1547: Ivan IV "the Terrible" crowned as Czar of Russia
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| 12 | 1556 | - 1556: Akbar the Great becomes Moggul emperor of India, continues wars of conquest until 1605
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| 13 | 1558 | - 1558: Queen Elizabeth ascends the throne and rules to 1603
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| 14 | 1570 | - 1570: Japan permits visits of foreign ships
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1502 - 1571 (~ 69 years)