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Period: Mar 12, 1394 to Mar 12, 1460
Life of Prince Henry the Navigator
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Mar 12, 1415
Portuguese capture Ceuta (now Morocco)
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Mar 12, 1433
China ends its great expeditions
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Mar 12, 1434
Portugal extends expeditions along west African coast
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Mar 12, 1441
First shipment of African slaves brought directly from Africa to Portugal
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Period: Mar 12, 1450 to Mar 12, 1519
Life of Leonardo da Vinci
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Period: Mar 12, 1450 to
Northern Renaissance
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Mar 12, 1453
Ottoman capture of Constantinople
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Mar 12, 1455
First European printing press; Mainz, Germany
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Mar 12, 1462
Russia (mostly) freed from Tatars by Ivan III
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Period: Mar 12, 1469 to Mar 12, 1527
Life of Machiavelli
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Period: Mar 12, 1475 to Mar 12, 1514
Life of Michelangelo
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Mar 12, 1480
Moscow region free; Russian expansion south
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Mar 12, 1488
Portuguese round Cape of Good Hope
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Mar 12, 1492
Columbus' first expedition
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Mar 12, 1492
Fall of Granada, expulsion of the Jews
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Period: Mar 12, 1497 to Mar 12, 1498
Vasco de Gama sails to India
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Period: Mar 12, 1500 to
Commercial Revolution
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Mar 12, 1509
First Spanish colonies on Latin American mainland
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Mar 12, 1514
Portuguese expedition to Indonesia
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Period: Mar 12, 1515 to Mar 12, 1547
Reign of Francis I (France)
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Mar 12, 1517
Luther's 95 theses; beginning of Protestant Reformation
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Period: Mar 12, 1519 to Mar 12, 1521
Magellan circumnavigates the globe
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Period: Mar 12, 1519 to Mar 12, 1524
Cortes leads conquest of Mexico
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Period: Mar 12, 1533 to
Life of Ivan IV
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Mar 12, 1534
First French explorations in Canada
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Mar 12, 1534
Beginning of Church of England
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Period: Mar 12, 1541 to Mar 12, 1564
Calvin in Geneva
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Mar 12, 1542
Portuguese reach Japan
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Mar 12, 1543
Copernican revolution and Copernicus's work on astronomy
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Period: Mar 12, 1550 to
Religious wars in France, Germany, and Britain
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Period: Mar 12, 1552 to Mar 12, 1556
Russian expansion in central Asia and western Siberia
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Period: Mar 12, 1555 to
Reign of Elizabeth I (England)
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Mar 12, 1562
Britain begins its slave trade
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Period: Mar 12, 1564 to
Life of Galileo
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Mar 12, 1571
Ottoman fleet defeated in Battle of Lepanto
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Period: Mar 12, 1580 to
Spain and Portugal united under same rulers
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British defeat Spanish Armada
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Fall of Songhay Empire
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Japan begins isolation policy
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Scientific Revolution
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First permanent British colony in Virginia
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First French colonies in Canada; England gains first trading concession in India
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Independence of Netherlands
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Thiry Years War
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Dutch capture northeastern Brazil
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Dutch begin conquests of Java (and Indonesia)
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English Civil War
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Life of Isaac Newton
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Culmination of popular rebellions in western Europe
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Dutch launch colony in southern Africa
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Habsburgs drive Turks from Hungary
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Glorious Revolution in Britain
Parliamentary monarchy, some religious toleration, political writing of John Locke -
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Reign of Peter the Great (Russia)
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Enlightenment
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Life of Frederick the Great of Prussia
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First Turkish language printing press
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European population boom
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Beginnings of Methodism
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French-British wars in India
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"Black Hole" of Calcutta
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Period: to
Seven Years War in Europe, India, and North America
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British acquire New France
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East India Company controls Bengal
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Period: to
American Revolution