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they were used by Christians to signal divine services and make special announcements.
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Martin Behaim invented the first map globe.
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Syphilis starts spreading through Europe
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1497
Leonardo paints "The Last Supper"; Vasco da Gama sails around the Cape of Good Hope and to India -
1502
The first watch is made -
1509
Europe launches African slave trade with the New World -
1512
Copernicus writes that the Earth circles the sun -
1517
Martin Luther nails his theses to church door, launching the Protestant Reformation; coffee introduced in Europe -
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Englishmen, William Lee invents a knitting machine called the stocking frame.
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601.