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Period: 1289 to
Ottoman Dynasty
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Period: 1368 to
Ming Dynasty
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Period: 1394 to 1460
Life of Prince Henry the Navigator
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1441
Beginning of Portuguese slave trade
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Period: 1451 to 1481
Reign of Mehmed the Conqueror
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1453
Ottoman conquest of Constantinople
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Period: 1464 to
Songhay Empire
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Period: 1473 to 1543
Life of Copernicus
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Period: 1483 to 1546
Life of Martin Luther
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1488
Dias's voyage around the Cape of Good Hope
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1492
Columbus's first voyage to the western hemisphere
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1494
Treaty of Tordesillas
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Period: 1497 to 1499
de Gama's first voyage to India
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1500
Portuguese establish trading post in Calicut, India
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Period: 1501 to
Safavid Dynasty
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Period: 1506 to 1542
Reign of King Alfonso I of Kongo
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Period: 1509 to 1547
Reign of King Henry VIII
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Period: 1509 to 1564
Life of John Calvin
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1514
Battle of Chaldiran
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1517
Publication of 95 Theses
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1518
Smallpox in the Caribbean
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Period: 1519 to 1522
Magellan's (crew) circumnavigation of the world
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Period: 1519 to 1521
Spanish conquest of Mexico
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Period: 1520 to 1566
Reign of Suleyman the Magnificent
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Period: 1526 to
Mughal Dynasty
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1540
Foundation of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
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1545
Spanish discovery of silver at Potosi
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Period: 1545 to 1563
Council of Trent
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Period: 1552 to
Life of Matteo Ricci
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Period: 1556 to
Reign of Akbar
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Period: 1564 to
Life of Galileo
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Period: 1565 to 1575
Spanish conquest of the Philippines
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Spanish Armada
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Period: to
Reign of Shah Abbas
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Period: to
Tokugawa shogunate of Japan
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Foundation of Jamestown
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Period: to
Thirty Years' War
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Dutch establishment of Batavia in Java
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Period: to
Reign of Queen Nzinga of Ndongo
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Period: to
Life of Newton
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Period: to
Qing Dynasty
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Peace of Westphalia
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Period: to
Reign of Aurangzeb
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Smallpox in Guam
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Period: to
Seven Years' War
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Period: to
Cook's voyage to the Pacific Ocean