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The Fall of Constantinople, also known as the Conquest of Constantinople, was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Empire. The city was captured on 29 May 1453 as part of the culmination of a 55-day siege which had begun on 6 April. -
A house of English and Welsh origin.
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Expelled all Jews and forced them to convert to catholicism.
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Christopher Columbus went to the Americas.
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King Ferdinand II and Queen Isabella I capture Granada. -
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet during the High Renaissance. -
Martin Luther was a German priest, theologian, author, hymn writer, professor, and former Augustinian friar. Luther was the seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation, and his theological beliefs form the basis of Lutheranism. The Ninety-five Theses or Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences is a list of propositions for an academic disputation written in 1517 by Martin Luther, then a professor of moral theology at the University of Wittenberg, Germany. -
The Diet of Worms of 1521 was an imperial diet of the Holy Roman Empire called by Emperor Charles V and conducted in the Imperial Free City of Worms. Martin Luther was summoned to the diet in order to renounce or reaffirm his views in response to a Papal bull of Pope Leo X -
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The Act of Supremacy, passed by the English Parliament in 1534, declared King Henry VIII the "Supreme Head on earth of the Church of England," severing the nation's ties to the Pope in Rome. This act was driven by Henry's desire to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon, which the Pope refused. By making the King the head of the Church, the act allowed him to grant the annulment himself and gave him control over both the state and the church in England. Anglican church is the main church. -
Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer and mathematician who is often called the father of modern astronomy. -
A pivotal ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church held from 1545 to 1563 that served as the formal response to the Protestant Reformation
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A treaty signed in 1555 that ended the religious conflict between Catholics and Lutherans within the Holy Roman Empire Recognizes "Cuius regio, eius religio" which means "whose realm, his religion" -
The Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre in 1572 was a targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence directed against the Huguenots during the French Wars of Religion. -
The War of the Three Henrys, also known as the Eighth War of Religion, took place during 1585–1589, and was the eighth conflict in the series of civil wars in France known as the French Wars of Religion.
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The Spanish Armada was a Spanish fleet that sailed from Lisbon in late May 1588, commanded by Alonso de Guzmán, Duke of Medina Sidonia, an aristocrat without previous naval experience appointed by Philip II of Spain. -
A 1598 decree by French King Henry IV that granted Calvinist Protestants (Huguenots) significant rights in a predominantly Catholic nation.