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476
BEGING OF THE MIDDLE AGES (The Fall of Western Roman Empire)
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1215
DECLARATION OF CARTA MAGNA
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Period: 1337 to 1453
THE HUNDRED YEAR'S WAR
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Period: 1348 to 1350
THE BLACK DEATH
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Period: 1378 to 1417
THE GREAT SCHISM
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1410
Invention of Pocket Clocks
The small pocket clocks were invented to help normal people tell the time. The significant was that this was one of the first devices that can be used to tell the time and also be carried around. Before this clocks were usually big and positioned at one place. This is very significant because if people didn't know the time they wouldn't be organized. They wouldn't have a healthy and organized lifestyle. Organization can also enable people to do things more effientily such as planning -
1453
THE RENAISSANCE
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1492
DISCOVERY OF AMERICA
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1505
Mona Lisa
Leonardo Davinci painted the painting called Mona Lisa. I think this is a significant event because Mona Lisa changed the way people painted. Before the Renaissance people didn't paint as detail and realistic as this. In the Mona Lisa the woman in the painting had emotions and hand gestures. The painting used shading to add detail. Also there was a background. Before this paintings were usually dull, undetailed and unrealistic. -
1550
Catholic Counter-Reformation.
Catholic Counter-Reformation. The Council of Trent met from 1545 to 1563 to discuss complaints against the church including its music. -
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GALILEO
Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer whose pioneering work with telescopes enabled him to describes the moons of Jupiter and rings of Saturn. Placed under house arrest for his views of a heliocentric universe. -
1575
Lepanto's Battle
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Siamese-Burmese War
The during the war Siam fought against Burma in which King Naresuen the great fought and won against Burmese forces, during his reign Siam reached its greatest territorial extent and influence. This is significant because it changed the amount of land Thailand had. It also freed Thailand from being controlled by Burma. Without this war Thailand would still be part of Burma and it will be less important and powerful. -
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Establishment of the Dutch East India Company
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The 30 years war started
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THE ILLUSTRATION
from the end of the 17th century until the beginning of the french revolution. It was named for dissipating the darkness of humanity trough the lights of reason. -
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Marriage of William III of Netherlands to Mary II
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Salem Witch Trials
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The 47 Ronin Event
47 Samurai attack a Japanese Shogun in a attack to avenge thier master. Mitford, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford. Tales of Old Japan. London: 1871. -
Comet predicted to appear
English astrnomer Edmond Halley predicts the next time that the comet he has been observing will again appear in the skies of Earth. Upon being correct, the comet he predicted was named Halley's Comet. -
Classical period started
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The colony of Georgia is founded
The last colony to be established, Georgia was given over to the crown, making it a Crown Colony. London, Bonnie. Georgia and the American Experience. Atlanta -
END OF THE BAROQUE
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Benjamin Franklin Invents and test the first lightning rod
Many people might think that Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity by flying a kite on a stormy night but actually that is not true. First of all there was no kite or key involved in his experiment, there was a well build and grounded lightning rod that Franklin had created. Second of all Franklin wasnt the one that went out in the storm to perform the experiment that was a retired French man -
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American Revolution
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END OF THE RENAISSANCE
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French Revolution
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War of 1812
the United States took on the greatest naval power in the world, Great Britain, in a conflict that would have an immense impact on the young country’s future -
Classical period end