- Michalangelo - Pieta, Sisteen Chapel
- Leonardo - Last Super, Mona Lisa
- Raphael - paintings of Mary
Explorers
- Bartholomeu Dias - discovered southern tip of Africa
- Vasco da Gama - expidtion around Cape of Good Hope
- Christopher Columbus - went to the Americas
- Ferdinand Maellan - circumnavigation
- Protestant Reformation - Martin Luther
- Catholic Reformation
- Inquisition
Science
- Galileo - Earth revolves around sun
- Kepler - planets travel in elipses
- Willaim Harvey - the circulation of the blood
- Willaim Gilbert - the world is magnatized
