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1500 Raw Sugar refined; men begin to wear the 'shirt' in Europe
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1513 Machiavelli's *Il Principe (The Prince)*
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1517 Martin Luther begins the Protestant Reformation 1518 The slave trade begins.
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1522 Cuthbert Tunstall-1st textbook on Arithmetic (pub); 1524 Peter Apian-1st book on cartographical methods (pub)
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1500 Leonardo da Vinci designs 1st helicopter; 1502 1st pocket watch (spring-driven), P. Henlein
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1507 Martin Waldseemüller's Map of America (1st to name)
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1514 Copernicus writes 1st version of heliocentric theory (not pub until 1543)
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1518 Royal College of Physicians est. (London)
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1516 THOMAS MORE; *Utopia* (actually 'De Optimo Rei Publicae Statu Deque Nova Insula Utopia')
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