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Period: 300 to
Maya Civilization
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Period: Jan 16, 1200 to
Ottoman Empire
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Period: Jan 15, 1230 to
Mali Empire
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Period: Jan 16, 1254 to Jan 16, 1324
Marco Polo
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Period: Jan 16, 1280 to Jan 16, 1337
Mansa Musa is ruler of Mali
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Period: Jan 16, 1280 to Jan 16, 1337
Mansa Musa alive
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Jan 16, 1324
Mansa Musa haji
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Period: Jan 16, 1371 to Jan 16, 1433
Voyages of Zheng He
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Period: Jan 16, 1394 to Jan 16, 1460
Prince Henry the Navigator
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Jan 16, 1419
First Portuguese voyage around Africa
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Jan 15, 1427
Aztec Empire at its peak
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Period: Jan 15, 1438 to Jan 15, 1532
Incan Empire
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Jan 16, 1452
Papal Bull: Dum Diversas
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Period: Jan 16, 1471 to Jan 16, 1541
Francisco Pizarro's lifetime
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Jan 16, 1482
Portuguese make EL MINA
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Period: Jan 16, 1490 to Jan 16, 1500
Moors are driven out of Spain
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Jan 16, 1494
Treaty de Tordesillas signed
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Period: Jan 15, 1502 to
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
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Jan 16, 1502
Cantino Planosphere
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Jan 16, 1502
Bartolome de las Casas travels to Hispanola
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Period: Jan 16, 1502 to
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade at highest
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Jan 16, 1529
King Alfonso of Congo writes letters to King John
(King John of Portugal)
-Asks for medicine to treat diseases carried from Europe
- Asks for King John to stop kidnapping Congolease aristocrats, take regular people instead
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Jan 16, 1532
Fall of the Incan Empire
Collision at Cajamarca -
Jan 16, 1537
Pope declares that Native Americans are real people
:O -
Jan 16, 1542
New Laws of the Indies for the Good Treatment and Preservation of the Indians
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Period: Jan 16, 1550 to Jan 16, 1551
Valladolid Debate
Bartolome de las Casas vs. Juan de Sepulveda
Regarding the treatment of Native Americans that were "discovered" in the exploration of the new world.
Casas - let them be treated well
Sepulveda - they're savages -
Jan 16, 1552
Las Casas publishes A brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies
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Father Francisco Ximenez published Popol Vuh
Mayan creation story -
Encomienda System (technically) outlawed
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Period: to
Napolean Bonaparte lifespan
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Hatian Independence from France
BIG Slave revolt -
Britain bans slave trade
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US bans slave trade (NOT slavery yet)
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End of Napolean's empire
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Monroe Doctrine by John Quincy Adams
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Period: to
King Leopold's lifespan
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Period: to
Henry Stanley
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Period: to
Henry Stanley lifetime
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US bans slavery
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Period: to
Porforio Diaz is dictator of Mexico
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Period: to
Rubber Boom
Approx. Dates -
Period: to
Scramble for Africa
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Period: to
King Leopold rules Congo Free State
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Brazil bans slave trade
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Cuban Independence from Spain
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Spanish American War
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US occupation of Cuba over
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Period: to
WWI
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Rwanda taken over by Congo
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Period: to
Patrice Lumumba's Lifetime
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Period: to
Patrice Lumumba rules over Congo
Until his death -
Fidel Castro is born
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Period: to
Che Guevara's lifetime
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Period: to
Jorge Ubico is dictator of Guatemala
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Period: to
Fulencio Batista is the dictator of Cuba
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Start of the Spanish Inquisition
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Period: to
Cold War
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Jacobo Arbenz is elected president of Guatemala
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Operation WASHTUB
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Cuban Coup d'tat
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Congo gains independece from Belgium
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Patrice Lumumba assassinated, replaced by Mobotu Sese Seko
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Rwanda gains independence from Belgium
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Mobotu Seseseko comes to power in Congo
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Belgium assumes control over Congo
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Rwandan Genocide
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Hugo Chavez is elected President of Venezuela
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Mobotu Seseseko Overthrown
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Period: to 250
Teotihuacan at peak
Aztec -
Evo Morales elected
1st indigenous president in Bolivia -
Cocoa Constitution
New constitution for Bolivia which protects coca growers -
Period: to Jan 15, 1235
Ghana Empire
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Period: to
Trans-Saharan Trade at its height
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Period: to Jan 15, 1020
Leif Erickson alive