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The renaissance took place over 400 years. All events in this timeline took place during the renaissance. This was when culture, art, and ideas spread extremely fast.
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In the year 1418, Prince Henry started the first school of navigation in Sagres, Portugal
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After many days, the walls surrounding the city of Constantinople fell, as well as the kingdom.
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This was the timespan that the Ottomans had supreme rule in Southeast Europe to the Middle East.
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This was the day that Columbus first arrived to the continent of North America.
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On October 15, Columbus was offered tobacco by the natives.
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Agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed towards settling conflict over the lands discovered.
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In the year 1497, Vasco Da Game started his journey to sail around the Cape Of Good Hope.
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1509 is the year where Desiderius Erasmus wrote his most famous novel, The Praise of Folley.
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Leonardo Da Vinci's famous art piece, The Mona Lisa, was finished in the month of October, 1517.
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Martin Luther posts the 95 Thesis, challenging the Catholic church.
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Ferdinand Mageoundllan's crew sails arround the entire globe in three years.
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Hernan Cortes' army far outnumbered the Aztecs and eventually took them out on 1521.
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The year that the rulers of Northern India had started.
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On this day, Fransisco Pizarro executed the last Incan ruler.
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Copernicus' theory that the Sun was the center of the universe instead of the Earth was a large step forward in science.
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The Roman Catholics most important councils prompted by the Protestant Reformation.
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Spains unkillable navy were stopped by Francis Drake off the coast of France.
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It is believed that Shakespeare wrote Julius Caesat in the year 1599.
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Galileo created HIS first telescope in the year 1610. He used this to discover multiple moons of Jupiter.
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In the year 1616, William Harvey presented his scientific theory about circulation of blood.
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The Thirty Years War spread across Europe, from Sweden to Spain.
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Famous novel written by Rene Descartes, published in the year 1637. "I think, therefore I am"
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The Taj Mahal opened in the year 1648 by the Mughal Empire.
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In the year 1666, Sir Isaac Newton made the laws of gravity, one of the largest scientific contributions.
