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1503
 
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Hieronymus Bosch paints the most detailed of his exotically surreal canvases, The Garden of Earthly Delights       
1510
 
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Erasmus and Thomas More take the northern Renaissance in the direction of Christian humanism       
1516
 
   
Erasmus publishes an influential edition of the New Testament in its original Greek      
1536
 
 
William Tyndale is captured in Antwerp, condemned as a heretic and strangled at the stake    
1543
 
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Flemish anatomist Andreas Vesalius publishes a seven-volume work which for the first time lays bare human anatomy       
1556
 
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Charles V abdicates, handing the Netherlands and Spain to his son Philip and the title of Holy Roman emperor to his brother Ferdinand        
c. 1565
 
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Pieter Brueghel the Elder depicts biblical events taking place among the peasants of the Netherlands countryside     
Pieter Brueghel the Elder Adoration of the Kings (detail) 1564
National Gallery, London

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1567
 
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The duke of Alba introduces a reign of terror in the Spanish Netherlands, by means of a tribunal known as the Council of Blood      
1569
 
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Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator publishes a map of the world, using the projection now known by his name       
1572
 
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Sea beggars seize the town of Brill and raise the flag of William of Orange (also known as William the Silent)