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Joan of Arc grew up at a French peasant girl, she led the French army to several victories in the Hundred Years War. She was burned at the stake for heresy when she was nineteen years old.
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The war between the House of York and the House of Lancaster for the English crown.
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The invention of firearms led Russian citizens to cast out Mongol rule.
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Polish astronomer Nicolas Copernicus shows that the earth revolves around the sun
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Ivan the Terrible was the first Russian ruler to be crowned Czar. Upon his death someone claimed to be his son gathered a following of cossacks and marched on Moscow.
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Began as a religious civil war between Protestants and Roman Catholics in Germany. First the Danes, then the Swedes, then the French finally intervened and left Germany divided.
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Portugal revolts against Spain, while technically independent, they were being led by the Spanish king.
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The fire started on Sep. 2 and burnt down most of London, including 13,200 houses, 87 churches, and St. Paul's Cathedral. Only six verified deaths were recorded.
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The Swedes fought against the Russians, and there were multiple battles, that each had different victors. In the end, Russia beat the Swedes with a final battle, that caused the Swedes to escape to Turkey.
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Russia got into three different wars with the Turkish empire. Russia defeated the Ottomans and the Turks all three times.
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Edward Jenner developed the smallpox vaccine after observing that those with cowpox did not contract smallpox.
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The UK Parliament passed this act to abolish slavery in the UK.
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George Stephenson built the most advanced steam locomotive of the time for use by the Liverpool & Manchester Railway
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The Eiffel tower was built by Gustave Eiffel for the World's Fair.
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Einstein developed this theory describing the physical theory of measurement in an internal frame of reference.
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The war started with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and ended with the founding of the Weimar Republic of Germany.
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5 million Russian citizens die from famine due to complete economic collapse.
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Alexander Fleming discovered a halo of inhibition of bacterial growth around a contaminant mould on a Staphylococcus plate culture. He concentrated the mould and named it Penicillin.
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After the 1832 Reform Act, women were not allowed to vote. It was not until after the beginnings of World War I that women were granted the right again.
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In 1939, Adolf Hitler led the Germans into Poland, marking the beginning of World War II.
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The war started with Germany invading Poland and ended after America dropped the atomic bombs on Japan.
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The Cold War was a sustained state of political and military tension between powers of the Western world.
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The first successful test of a hydrogen bomb
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The Soviet Union launches the first Earth satellite into space.
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Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space.
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The meltdown of a nuclear reactor in Ukraine, then under direct control of the Soviet Union, caused the release of a large of amount of radiation in the atmosphere.
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