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1490
Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
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Period: 1497 to 1498
Da Gama Goes around Africa
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1505
Mona Lisa painted
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1509
Henry VIII is King
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1510
School of Athens
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1517
95 Theses
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1520
Cortes conquers Aztecs
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1524
Peasant's Revolt
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1534
Act of Supremacy
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1543
Copernicus views published after death
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Period: 1545 to 1563
Council of Trent
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1555
Peace of Augsburg
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1558
Queen Elizabeth
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1562
Religious wars in France
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1568
Netherlands Revolution
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Defeat of Spanish Armada
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Edict of Nantes
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Elizabeth I dies
James I of Scotland - Stuarts take over. -
Sir Francis Bacon
Publishes ideas on deductive reasoning -
Kepler --> elliptical
Galileo produces 1st telescope, -
Henry IV is assassinated
Louis XIII takes over. -
30 years war
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Galileo on trial
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Descarte ideas
Vs Bacon empriticism deductive v. reasoning -
Frederick William Great Elector
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English Civil War
Charles I - Roundhead vs, Cavaliers -
Peace of West Phalia
Decline of the Holy Roman Empire; rise of Prussia-Austria. -
Oliver Cromwell
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Thomas Hobbes
Writes Leviathan -- defends absolute monarchy. -
Charles I
Restores the monarchy in England. -
Louis XIV Sole Ruler
Sun king --- Versailles -- Intended wars cost $$$ -
Margaret Cavendish is Published
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Peter the Great
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Revoke Edict of Nantes
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Newton is Published
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Glorious Revolution
William of Orange and Mary establish a constitiutional monarchy. -
Bill of Rights
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War Breaks Out (again)
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War of Spanish Succession
Louis XIV's war -
Union of Scotland and England
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Pragmatic Sanction
Charles IV - Maria Theresa will take the Austrian throne after his death. -
Treaty of Utrecht
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Maria Theresa
Becomes leader of Austria.