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The Hundred Year War Ends! It ended in 1453. Each side drew many allies into the war.
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He was the 3rd emperore.
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Fourth son of o John1. He lead Porgugals first oversrea conquest and capture Ceuta.
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Johann Gutenburg is the man who invented the printing press. It allowed the mass production of the written word. This made books rare and very expensive, meaning that they were not available to the general public.
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The Fall of Constantinople was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire. Under the command of Sultan Mehmed II. Ended the Byzantine Empire, an empire which had lasted for over 1,100 years.
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He sailed around the southern most tip of Africa. He was the first to do this.
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Was a series of military campaigns. It ended with the defeat of Granada and its annexation by Castile.
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Spain controlled the land foudn west of the imanginary line. It was discovered and explored by Chistopher Columbus.
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He was sailing for the Potugese crown. He was the fisrst European to reach India by sea.
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Leonardo Davinci starts the Mona Lisa. Lisa Gherardini is beleive to the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. Permanent display at The Louvre museum in Paris since 1797.
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Donatella starts to create his David statue.Marble statue of a standing male nude. The statue was placed instead in a public square, outside the Palazzo della Signoria, the seat of civic government in Florence, where it was unveiled on the 8th of September, 1504.
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Michelangle starts to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chaple. The ceiling is that of the Sistine Chapel, the large papal chapel built within the Vatican between 1477 and 1480 by Pope Sixtus IV. The ceiling's various painted elements form part of a larger scheme of decoration within the Chapel.
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Raphael starts painting the School of Athens. Is one of the most famous frescoes by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael.The picture has long been seen as "Raphael's masterpiece and the perfect embodiment of the classical spirit of the High Renaissance.
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Machiavelli writes The Prince. The printed version was not published until 1532, five years after Machiavelli's death.Most remembered of Machiavelli's works
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Mary I becomes Queen. Her executions of Protestants caused her opponents to give her the sobriquet "Bloody Mary". She was the only child of Henry VIII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon .
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Martin Luther posts his 95 Thesis. The disputation protests against clerical abuses, especially nepotism, simony, usury, pluralism, and the sale of indulgences. He posted them on the door of the church in Wittenberg.
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Elizabeth I becomes Queen. Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry VIII by second wife, Anne Boleyn. She was sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess.
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Anne Boleyn is executed. Early in 1523 there was a secret betrothal between Anne and Henry Percy. Before her death she made a short speech.
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Edward VI is born. He was King of England and Ireland from 28 January 1547 until his death. During Edward's reign, the realm was governed by a Regency Council because he never reached his majority.
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Ignatius of loyola founds the Jesuit order. He was a Spanish knight from a local Basque noble family. . Loyola's devotion to the Catholic Church was characterized by absolute obedience to the Pope.
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It was a trading company. fifteen years with the primary purpose of exporting the staple production of English woolen cloths and importing the products of the East Indies.
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It started when States General of the Netherlands granted it a 21-year monopoly to carry out trade activities in Asia. It was vary popular.
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Willian Shakespeare dies. He was a poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. No one knows why or how he died.
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