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1510
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
Flemish anatomist Andreas Vesalius publishes a seven-volume work which for the first time lays bare human anatomy
c. 1565
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
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
Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator publishes a map of the world, using the projection now known by his name
1576
The Pacification of Ghent unites all the provinces of the Netherlands in opposition to Spain
1579
The Union of Arras and the Union of Utrecht split the Netherlands into Catholic and Protestant camps
1595
A year after Mercator's death, his son publishes a bound collection of his maps with the title
Atlas, or Cosmographic Meditations
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