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The simplistic virtues of Greek and Roman Classic styles moves from polyphony to one harmonized melody and sees the increased importance and popularity of secular music.
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The earliest extant terrestrial globe was made in 1492 by Martin Behaim
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(1492) Columbus accidentally lands on an island in the Caribbean.
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The Last Supper is Leonardo Da Vinci’s visual interpretation of an event chronicled in all four of the Gospels
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The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci
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The Last Judgment is a fresco by the Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo covering the whole altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City.
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When the microscope was invented around 1590, suddenly we saw a new world of living things in our water, in our food and under our nose.
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Jamestown Virginia settlement is founded. The first English permanent settlement founded in North America.
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The earliest workings towards the design of the refracting telescope were made by German-Dutch lensmaker Hans Lippershey (above) in 1608.
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The Mayflower Pilgrims land at Plymouth. Escaped the religious persecution of England.
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The first comic opera, Marco Marazzoli, premieres in Rome
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Slavery exists in all English colonies in North America. The need for labor on in colonies was high and slaves was the solution. The slaves were from Atlantic Slave trade transported from Africa to Caribbean to North American Colonies.
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Salem Witch Trials started. Twenty people accused and executed of being witches in Salem Massachusetts
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The steam engine was developed over a period of about a hundred years by three British inventors. The first crude steam-powered machine was built by Thomas Savery, of England, in 1698.
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European settlers that live in the United States is 251,000.
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Boston massacre, Group of British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonist
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Boston Tea Party occurs in Boston Harbor. The colonists protest by throwing tea over into the sea on Boston Harbor
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The modern parachute was invented in the late 18th century by Louis-Sébastien Lenormand in France, who made the first recorded public jump in 1783.
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Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro premieres in Vienna
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The New York stock exchange is organized
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Eli Whitney invented the simple machine that influenced the history of the United States. He invented a cotton gin that was popular in the South.
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The modern pencil was invented in 1795 by Nicholas-Jacques Conte, a scientist serving in the army of Napoleon Bonaparte.