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Jan 1, 1300
Renaissance Begins
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Jan 1, 1455
Gutenberg creates the printing press
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Feb 3, 1488
Dias travels to Southern tip of Africa
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Feb 3, 1492
Columbus travels to the new world
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Feb 3, 1493
Line of Demarcation
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Feb 3, 1494
Treaty of Tordesillas
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Feb 3, 1497
Cabot founds Newfoundland
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Feb 3, 1497
de Gama travels to India
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Jan 1, 1513
Machiavelli writes "The Prince"
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Feb 3, 1516
More publishes "Utopia"
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Feb 3, 1516
Charles I becomes king of Spanish Empire
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Feb 3, 1517
Luther posts "95 Theses"
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Feb 3, 1519
Charles I inherits Hapsburg Empire and becomes Charles V
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Period: Feb 3, 1519 to Feb 4, 1522
Magellan circumvents the globe
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Feb 3, 1521
Diet of Worms
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Feb 3, 1521
Cortes captures Tenochtitlan
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Feb 3, 1532
Pizarro captures the Incan Empire
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Feb 3, 1533
Henry VIII creates Church of England
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Feb 3, 1534
Act of Supremecy
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Feb 3, 1534
Cartier explores the St. Lawrence River
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Feb 3, 1536
Calvin writes "Institutes of the Christian Religion"
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Feb 3, 1541
Calvin sets up a Theocracy in Geneva
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Feb 3, 1543
1543
Copernicus writes "On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres" -
Period: Feb 4, 1545 to Feb 4, 1563
Council of Trent
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Feb 3, 1547
Edward VI takes throne in England
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Feb 3, 1553
Mary Tudor takes English throne
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Feb 3, 1555
Peace of Augsburg
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Feb 3, 1556
Charles V splits empire and leaves throne
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Feb 3, 1558
Elizabeth I takes English throne
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Feb 3, 1572
Bartholomew Day Massacre
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James I takes power in England
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Jamestown settled
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Champlain founds Quebec City
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Henry IV Assassinated/Louis XIII takes throne
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Plymouth settled
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Charles I takes throne inn England
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Petition of Right signed
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Parliament disbanded
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Galileo tried by Inquisition
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Descartes publishes "Discourse on Method"
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Long Parliament fights Charles I
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Cardinal Richelieu appointed Chief Minister
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Richelieu dies and Mazarin takes position
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English Civil War
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Louis XIV takes throne
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Charles I beheaded
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Charles II takes throne
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Mazarin dies and Louis takes complete control
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Louis revokes Edict of Nantes
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James II takes throne
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Newton publishes theory on Gravity
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Glorious Revolution
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English Bill of Rights
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French and Indian War
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Treaty of Paris