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Mar 15, 1054
Final split between Eastern and Western Christianity
Christianity divided itself in the East during its early centuries. -
Jul 21, 1187
Muslims under Saladin retake Jerusalem
On July 4, 1187 the Muslim attack on Jerusalem marked the annihilation of the Christian Crusader armies.
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Jan 19, 1349
THe BLack Death
It arrived by 12 Genoses ships were all of the crew were dead after a trip to the black sea, the disease killed over a third of the continent's population.
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Aug 18, 1441
Portuguese navigators begin slave trade
Prince Henry established a slave market & fort in Arguin Bay in 1445 and they were brought back to Portugal. -
Sep 24, 1572
St. Bartholomews Day massacre in Paris-2,000 Protestants killed
In 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations, followed by a wave of Roman Catholic mob violence, both directed against the Huguenots , during the French Wars of Religion. -
Spanish Armada destroyed in the English Channel
There was a big shipwreak and the boats were on fire. -
British surrender at Yorktown, ending war
on October 19, 1781 Lord Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington and his troops.
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Rosetta Stone found in Egypt
On July 19, 1799 when a french soilder found a black basalt slab covered in anceint writing some dead. -
British win naval battle of Trafalgar
The French ship Redoubtable during her magnificent resistance at the Battle of Trafalgar. -
Napoleon defeated by Wellington at Waterloo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_cm_Foq158
The battle took place in Belgium on June 18, 1815 were Napoleon was defeated and exiled from France by Britain and the
Prussians.
