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500
Teotihuancan reaches population peak in central Mexico.
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511
Clovis unites Franks under Christian rule.
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527
Justinian becomes ruler of Byzantine Empire.
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Oct 4, 630
Muhammad returns to Mecca after making the Hijrah to Medina.
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Oct 5, 732
Charles Martel stops Muslim invasion.
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Oct 7, 732
Charles Martel defeats the Muslims at Tours.
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Oct 5, 1000
Muslim scholars, who preserved Greek medical works, share them with Europeans.
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Oct 18, 1000
Hausa city-states begin to emerge.
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Oct 7, 1066
Norman invasion of England
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Oct 7, 1095
First Crusade begins.
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Oct 5, 1100
Muslim literature flourishes
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Oct 18, 1100
Mississippian culture thrives at Cahokia.
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Oct 19, 1100
Yoruba kingdom of Ife is established.
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Oct 7, 1190
Holy Roman Empire weakens.
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Oct 7, 1192
Kamakura Shogunate rules Japan.
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Oct 7, 1215
King John approves Magna Carta.
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Oct 18, 1235
Sundiata founds Mali Empire.
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Oct 6, 1240
Mongols destroy Kiev.
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Oct 9, 1279
Kublai Khan conquers China.
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Nov 10, 1300
In the 1300s the Renaissance begins in Italian city-states such as Florence, Milan, and Mantua.
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Dec 11, 1300
Osman founds Ottoman state.
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Oct 18, 1324
Mali king Mansa Musa goes on hajj to Mecca.
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Oct 18, 1325
Aztecs build Tenochtitlan.
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Oct 7, 1347
Bubonic plague strikes Europe.
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Dec 11, 1398
Timur the Lame destroys Delhi.
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Dec 11, 1405
Zeng He takes first voyage.
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Dec 11, 1419
Prince Henry founds navigation school.
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Oct 7, 1429
Joan of Arc leads the French to victory over the English at Orleans.
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Nov 10, 1434
Medici family takes control of Florence.
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Oct 18, 1438
Pachacuti becomes Incan emperor.
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Oct 6, 1453
Constantinople falls to Ottoman Turks
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Oct 7, 1453
Hundred Years' War ends with the French victory.
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Dec 11, 1453
Ottomans capture Constantinople.
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Nov 10, 1455
Gutenberg Bible printed in Mainz.
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Oct 18, 1464
Sunni Ali begins Songhai Empire.
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Dec 11, 1492
Columbus makes first voyage.
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Dec 11, 1494
Spain and Portugal sign Treaty of Tordesillas.
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Dec 11, 1501
Safavids conquer Persia.
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Oct 18, 1502
Montezuma II crowned Aztec emperor.
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Nov 10, 1517
Martin Luther begins the Reformation in Wittenberg.
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Dec 11, 1521
Cortes conquers Aztec Empire.
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Dec 11, 1526
Babur founds Mughal Empire.
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Dec 11, 1533
Pizarro conquers Inca Empire.
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Nov 10, 1534
English king Henry Vll starts the chruch of England.
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Nov 10, 1563
Council of Trent mandates reforms in the Catholic Church.
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Shah Abbas I rules Safavid Empire.
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British defeat Philip II's Spanish Armada.
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Tokugawa shoguns rule Japan.
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English found Jamestown.
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Champlain claims Quebec for France.
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Dutch open trade with Java.
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Shah Jahan orders construction of Taj Mahal at Agra.
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Louis XIV begins to rule France.
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Manchus establish Qing Dynasty in China.
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Puritans under Oliver Cromwell execute English King.
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Peter the Great becomes sole czar of Russia.
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French and Indian War begins.
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Prussian king Fredrick the Great begins Seven Years' War against Austria.
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Britain seeks to trade with China.
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Al-Khwarizmi writes the first algebra textbook.
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Byzantine culture spreads to Russia.
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Koryu Dyansty controls Korea.
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Heian period begins in Japan.
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Song Dynasty established in China.
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Treaty of Verdun divides Charlemagne's empire.
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Otto the Great becomes emperor.
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Capetian dynasty begins in France.
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Pope Leo III crowns Frankish king Charlemagne emperor.
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Anasazi culture develops in the Southwest.
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Classic period of the Maya civilation ends.
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Outside invasions spur growth of feudalism.
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Empire of Ghana thrives on trade.
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Tang dynasty begins 289-year rule in China.