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1420
Prince Henry of Portugal finds Madeira
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1439
Johannes Gutenberg's printing press
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1439
Johannes Gutenburg printing press ink
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1448
Prince Henry of Portugal traded slaves
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Period: 1491 to 1517
Henry VIII, king and the main instigator
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1492
Christopher Columbus discovers the Caribbean
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Period: 1492 to 1502
Christopher Columbus made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean
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Period: 1495 to 1498
Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper
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Period: 1497 to 1499
Vaso de Gama found a quick route to India
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1498
Vasco de Gama first European to reach India by sea
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1503
Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa painting
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1504
Michelangelo's David statue
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Period: 1508 to 1512
Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel painting
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1509
Desiderius Erasmus,The Praise of Folly
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1517
Martin Luther's 95 Theses
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1519
Ferdinand Magellan found a strait to the west
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1519
Hernando Cortez conquests Mexico
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1520
Martin Luther started the Lutheran church
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1520
Ferdinand Magellan is the first European to cross the Pacific Ocean
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1521
Hernando Cortez defeated the Aztec empire
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1522
Desiderius Erasmus published the New Testament
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1530
John Calvin, created the doctrine of predestination
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1532
Francisco Pizarro founds Lima
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1532
Francisco Pizarro conquers Peru
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1534
Henry VIII, Act of Supremacy
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1534
St. Ignatiuns de Loyola founded Jesuits
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1534
Jacques Cartier discovers the St. Lawrence River
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1536
John Calvin makes the Institutes of the Christian Religion
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1539
Jacques Cartier found the Mississippi River
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1543
Nicholaus Copernicus makes Helicentrism
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1543
Galileo Galilei improves Heliocentrism
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1543
Nicolaus Copernicus book De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
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Period: 1558 to
Elizabeth I ruling England alone
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1570
Miguel de Cervantes captured by Turks for five years
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Period: 1577 to 1580
Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe
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Elizabeth I, the Spanish Armada
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Francis Drake helps to defeat the Spanish Armada
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William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juilet
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Louis XVI Edict of Nantes revoked
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William Shakespeare, Hamelt
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Galileo Galilei discovers the rings of Saturn
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Johannes Kepler makes, The Keplerian telescope
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Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote novel
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William Harvey finds the circulation of blood
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Johannes Kepler makes law of planetary motion
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Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War
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William Harvey releases his work, Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus
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Period: to
John Locke, Natural Laws and Rights
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Period: to
Louis XIV King of France
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Charles I beheaded
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Charles II feud with Parliment
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Thomas Hobbes makes his social contrast theroy
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Oliver Cromwell served as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England,
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Charles I started the Restoration
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Charles II crowned king
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Isaac Newton's reflecting teliscope
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Period: to
Peter the Great was empire
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Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
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Louis XIV builds the Palace of Versailes
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Issac Newton's law of gravitiation
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Period: to
William and Mary, the Glorious Revolution
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John Locke writes The Second Treatise of Civil Government
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William and Mary signed the English Bill of Rights
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Peter the Great becomes a solo ruler
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Voltaire's Letters on the English
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Period: to
Fredrick the Great, the King of Prussia
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Fredrick the Great conquered territories
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Baron de Montesquieu, The Spirit of the Laws
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Jean Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse on the Arts and Science
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Jean Jacques Rousseu writes The Social Contract
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Period: to
Napoleon Bonaparte rises through military ranks
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Voltaire's Candide
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Execution of Louis XVI
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Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned emperor
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Eugene Delacroix painting, Death of Sardanapalus
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Eugene Delacroix, painting of Liberty leading the people
