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1452
Leonardo da Vinci Born
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1456
Johnannes Gutenberg
Published the Christian bible with the printing press -
1475
Michelangelo born
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1488
Bartholomeu Dias sailed around the tip of Africa
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1494
Treaty of Tordesillas
Divided the new world into parts -
1497
Vasco da Gama sailed around the Cape of Good Hope
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1508
Sistine chapel painted by Michelangelo
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1513
Niccolo Machiavelli wrote the Prince
The was a guide on how gain and maintain power -
1517
Martian Luther 95 Theses
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1519
Ferdinand Magellan
Sailed from Spain to find a new way to the Pacific -
1543
Nicolaus Copernicus Heliocentric theory
Theory that the sun is the center of the universe -
1555
Peace of Augsburg
Allowed princes to choose their own religion -
Galileo Galiliei improved telescope
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Peter the Great
He brought Russia into the modern times -
English bill of Rights was signed
Written by William II and
Mary II -
Peter the Great learned western technology
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Fredrick William I came to power in Prussia
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Steam engine wad improved by James Watt
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The Industrial Revolution began spreading around the world
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Universal manhood suffrage
Gave every man the right to vote -
Imperialism
Controlling another countries political, economic, and cultural ways -
Congress of Vienna
Made to create peace in Europe -
Railroad from Liverpool to Manchester
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Treaty of Nanjing
Treaty that ended the opium war -
Period: to
Tailing Rebillion
Happened to try and start a new Chinese government -
Franco Prussian war
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King William I became German Chancellor
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Second Reich
German empire -
Period: to
KulturKampf
Prussian government against the Roman Catholic Church -
Zulu wars
Between the British and Zulu nation -
Open door policy
Gave all countries equal trading rights with China -
Plane profected
Made by the Wright Brothers -
World War I starts
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Archduke Francis Ferdinand assassinated
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Austria Hungary declares war on Serbia
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Lusitania sunk
British passenger ship sunk by German U-boats -
Italy declares war on Austria Hungary
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Us joins war
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
Ended Russian participation in the war -
World War I ends