In 1497 A.D…………………., an Italian in the service of the Tudor king, Henry VIII of England, discovered New found land.

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• In 1870 A.D. When Napoleon III, the French king withdrew his army from the Papal States on the wake of the Franco-Prussian War, the Italian army captured ……………and made it the capital of the Unified State of Italy.
• In 1486 A.D …………………sailed along the West coast of Africa and went as far as the cape of storms, renamed as the Cape of Good Hope by the Portuguese King as it gave definite hope of discovering a new sea-route to the East.
• The advantageous location of Portugal on the Atlantic sea board was fully utilized by Henry, the Navigator of…………………….
• ……………….. broke the monopoly of Latin and wrote his world famous love sonnets to “Laura” in Italian language.
• ………………. was the “Father of Italian Prose”.
• ………………., the Italian scientist studied the Solar System and perfected the ‘Copernican Theory’ rebuked the theory of Aristotle that heavier bodies fall at quicker speed than lighter bodies.
• An Italian sailor, Christopher Columbus, with the help of Queen Isabella of Spain, left the Spanish port of …………..in August 1492 and set foot on Small Island in West Indies in October, 1492 A.D.
• The unification of Italy was accomplished mostly by the heroic efforts of the Italian patriots supported by the ruler of Sardinia, …………………
• ………………..was “the Master brain” of the Italian Unification.
• The English Physician, …………………..discovered how blood circulates from the heart through arteries to different parts of the body and comes back to the heart through veins.