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Period: Jul 30, 1300 to
Age of Exploration
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Mar 4, 1394
Prince Henry of Portugal is born
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Jul 17, 1402
Yonglo becomes Ming Emperor
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Nov 21, 1405
Zheng He captains his first voyage
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Feb 27, 1448
Bartolomeu Dias reached Cape of Good Hope
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Nov 25, 1491
Ferdinand & Isabella end war with Muslims
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Oct 12, 1492
Christopher Columbus spots land in North America
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Apr 27, 1494
Spain & Portugal agree to Treaty of Tordesillas
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May 27, 1497
Amerigo Vespucci charts new world coast
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May 20, 1498
Vasco da Gama
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Sep 25, 1500
Nicolaus Copernicus begins studying planetary movement
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Apr 24, 1519
H. Cortez lands on Mexico coast
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Nov 16, 1532
Fransico Pizzaro meets Atahualpa
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Dec 3, 1533
Ivan the terrible becomes ruler
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Jun 27, 1541
Jacques Cartier claims land in Canada
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May 22, 1556
Philip II inherited Spain, the Netherlands & the American colonies
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Nov 16, 1581
Ivan the Terrble kills his son
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English East India Company is founded
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Johannes Kepler mathmatically proves Copernicus & Brahe
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Dutch East India Company is founded
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Henry Hudson is last seen
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Thirty Years' War
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Cardinal Richelieu became the ruler of France
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Charles I took the throne
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Rene Descartes lays out his scientific method Discourse on Method
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English Civil war
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Louis XIV became ruler of France
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Gabriel Fahrenheit makes the first mercury-in-glass thermometer
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Oliver Cromwell became generral of the Puritans
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New Netherlands becomes New York
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Thomas Hobbes outlines the social contract in Leviathan
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Habeas Corpus
Habeas Corpus gave every prisoner the right to obtain a document that the the be brought to justice before a judge. -
La Salle claim Mississippi river for Spain
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Isaac Newton published his laws of gravity in Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
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Glorious Revolution
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John Locke justifies rebellion in Two Treatises on Government
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Peter the Great beomes ruler
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War of the Spanish Succession
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Catherine the Great puts down the serf Rebellion
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Fredrick the Great begins his reign in Prussia
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Maria Theresa becomes first woman ruler
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Baron Von Montesquieu purposed sepration of power in On the Spirit of Laws
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Denis Diderot publishes first volumes of his encyclopedia
if he never published it then we would never be able to find we need that we can't find on the internet. -
Seven Years War Begins
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Gearge III becomes the King of Great Britain
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Cesare Baccaria writes against torture in On Crimes & Punishment
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Boston Tea Party
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Declaration of Independence is signed
We wouldn't have any feedom without it. -
Joseph Ii anolishes serfdom in Austria
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Delegates at the Constitutional Convention sign the Constitution
We wouldn't have the laws we have today if they hadn't signed it. -
Mozart first performs Don Giiovanni
We wouldn't be able hear today. -
First slave revolts in Hispaniola
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Emilie du Chatelet translates Newton's worrks into French
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Beethoven dies
He wrote a lot og good symphonies.
