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Jan 19, 1096
Start of First Crusade (Jerusalem taken 1099)\
The first crusade marks a major turning point in the history of Europe, marking it the first major war that launched from western Europe since the decline of the Roman Empire. -
Jan 17, 1271
Marco Polo travels to China
Marco Polo’s family were traders. -
Jan 12, 1272
1272 Thomas Aquinass Summa Theologica published
Saint Thomas Aquinas is called the Angelic Doctor or the Prince of Scholastics -
Jan 7, 1503
Deviance's Mona Lisa painted
The Mona Lisa is over 500 years old. -
Jan 21, 1508
Michelangelo begins painting Sistine Chapel ceiling
It took four years to paint the Sistine chapel. -
Jan 20, 1563
General outbreak of the Black Plague in Europe
Black Plague killed an estimated 25–60% of Europeans. -
Louisiana Territory purchased by U.S. from France
The United States paid approximately $15 million dollars for over 800,000 square miles of land. -
1850 Public libraries established in Britain
The British Library is, as national libraries -
Thomas Edison invents phonograph
The invention of the Photograph was the name Edison named it and it took an cylinders rather than disc. -
1920 League of Nations established; 19th Amendment establishes womens suffrage in the U.S.
League of Nations came after the end of World War